Oh the juicy tears!

One day before the kickstarter for the Goon propaganda book went up, I offered a chance to The Mittani to prove to all of us that he isn't the horrible person in the wizzard hat anymore. It was a crucial moment, since I already had surprisingly large reddit and comment support, record high visitors for my posts reviving the story of his true colors.

I was purposefully modest in my demands. I didn't ask him to change any in-game behavior of his minions, or to reference me anywhere, just to stop his clan from harassing people who are only guilty in sucking in a video game bad enough to be ganked in highsec. Instead give them useful info, from his own damn ad-filled site. Of course he refused, because the tears of pubbies are too juicy. And he sent his minions to spew "mean-spirited hate" to me on reddit.

I ended my post with "If the first version of the page is not created this week and the ping doesn't go out to end the decade of farming human sadness and anger by Goons, I'm sure that every decent EVE player will agree: Incidentally, if you want to make the guy lose his EVE-business, his name is The Mittani. It's T-H-E M-I-T-T-A-N-I. He has his own coalition. Find him!" Oh boy, every decent EVE player agreed. Not because I told them, but because it was the truth. It wasn't my idea, I merely stated the obvious: before The Mittani could stand front of us as an ambassador for whole EVE, he must do a symbolic and large act to clean himself of his former wrongdoing.

The community roared against the wretched propaganda book as one. I don't know how many of them did because of me, but if there was only one, I'm proud. There was much more, considering the visitor counts. It was beautiful to see that despite most "content creators" bent a knee and supported the damn thing, people were practically consensual about rejecting this crap. The kickstarter pledges weren't even near the goal.

I expected Goons to just stop talking about it and let it be forgotten. But then I saw this and couldn't resist the guilty pleasure of the very sin I campaigned against:
I know, I'm weak. Sion talked exactly like the highsec miner who just lost his Mackinaw, calling the players who bested him "that toxic EVE community". Just like the miner, he told that because of meanies like us, the game will die. "CCP loses its ability to ever secure another author to write player stories.", "That's a truly enlightened way to win new people over and bring them into the game." "there is something seriously wrong with you.". Read the whole post, it's better than a minerbumping grab bag. It would be perfect if Sion would mine in Gamis, on stream and share his feelings after experiencing game content created by players in CODE!

But then I realized: The Mittani, Sion and the rest of the "stockholders" are in deep trouble. They didn't just lie to us. They lied to CCP and lied to Jeff Edwards. They made everyone believe that they are so powerful in-game that they can command the players to give money to a CCP-Jeff book. They can secure so high salary to Jeff that it'll worth his time to quit his day job at DoD and dedicate a year to a video game book. They can make something happen that even CCP cannot. Jeff and Seagull both put their reputation on the line just for a word from The Mittani. Anyone within EVE would know better, but they aren't from within EVE. (For Jeff, it's understandable).

What Sion writes is true, just not about the EVE community, but The Mittani Media. "The way our community collectively treats him as an author and as a person reflects upon all of us at TMC. Regardless of whether this Kickstarter succeeds or not, Jeff’s impression of us as a media company matters and will persist." Here, I fixed it for you. They can't just say "welp, better luck next time", because Jeff can get the word out "Alex is a leper, if you deal with him, 100K nerds will hate you". CCP will think "the Mittani is no longer relevant, let's cater to the opinion leaders who actually matter". (I've given up hope that they'll ever learn to be neutral.) The Mittani Media must save the book and they can't. With nothing in their hands, they do as ganked miners, issue empty threats and tears in blind hope that someone gets scared or pity them enough to pay. The leak of Endie "the electronic copies sold above that would be almost pure profit for TMC Media" proved that I've already told, they are nothing but a leech in the book project which had much better chances with Jeff+CCP only.

What can I say? Perfect karma! Goons are providing tears over their loss which they suffered because they wanted tears. EVE is real!

But something in his tear-filled nonsense must be addressed seriously: "And you know what else? Mittani will still be here, with the thousands of swarm brethren and the black ships of the Imperial Armada at his back. Your impotent /r/eve badposts won't save you from the wrath of our guns any more this time around than it did any of the others." This is the truth. No amount of blogposts and /r/eve upvotes will defeat them. While I'm writing this, I run 9 accounts in the background, running mining missions so I can keep giving 13B/week to Mordus Angels so they can keep killing Goons. (I can't trade and write at the same time, that needs full attention). Have you blown up a Goon ship today? Have you donated to someone who did? Or just upvoted, posted, laughed and felt good about yourself? Because that is why this arrogant, toxic bunch of bullies are still around. Want to be part of it the big EVE story of 2016? Don't wait for your CEO, don't wait for someone else to lead! Roam there today, solo or with a few guys or simply rat an hour and donate the proceeds to MoA!


PS: I managed to get the logs of the last meeting between Endie and The Mittani.

PS2: Endie, bring Bat to MoA please! Pretty please! Pretty, pretty, pretty please! Imagine the cries from the medium shield booster carriers, from the countless previously blued alt-freighters! Help liberating the poor bees from the Evil Band of Bookstarters!