Nah, its not an actual guild (That I know of) its Brit slang for a bunch of idiots, they were not a guild actually called âThe Goon Squadâ Especially as most of them were from differing realms.
It has slightly different meaning in the US, where it pretty much implied a bunch of thugs hired to do âsomethingâ, but I -Think- it originated pre World War II, in the Popeye cartoons, as a reference to the Goons, Who came from Goon Island, where everyone was pretty backwards and a bit dim.
Its generally just a collective name for a bunch of idiots, as such, though did see some usage during World War II, when British P.O.Wâs would use it to refer to their guards.
Then I misunderstood. But for off-realmers to appear on Argent Dawn there needed to be someone who actually invited them and pulled them into our shard, so I just assumed that to be a guild actually named Goon Squad.
Well, hope you reported them. On the other hand, we had a very fun time tonight in Stormwind, we PvP-d on the beach, the docks, around the stockades and inside the Cathedral. Two of our tonightâs enemies, a Death Knight and a Monk, added me on battle tag, excited and bewildered how much fun both sides had, and immediately started leveling their yet unstitched abominations (as we call our new recruits).
Overall they, even as enemies, had only words of praise for us, and theyâve been very excited about joining us. We had a good laugh and now theyâre talking with us on our discord.
So, as you see, this is what our guild does; being an event in itself when we appear in Stormwind, which many of our alliance-side sympathisers have told us. They view us as a âLegion Invasionâ type of event. We even have a few people, âAdoring fansâ, as we call them, who have followed us, and did /cheer /hug, and, in the end, theyâve drank Elixirs of Tongues and started chatting with us, saying that they love when they can spectate our fights.
1: I will admit that I find the idea interesting but I donât think it would work for me personally. Perhaps iâm merely to cynical but it does sound to good to be true.
2: I were involved in a guld built up in a smiliar manner years ago (not the hivemind part) but unfornatedly it ended with ripping itself apart in the end. Not to forget that Iâm an altoholic and hypotetically âbeing stuckâ with only playing one race⊠not my thing.
I do hope these answers will help with your sociology research.
If I were to gather a group of people irl, all dress the same and start mugging people on the street and call it âa social experimentâ, weâd still get hunted down and arrested at some point. You canât hide âbeing an ââ behind âa social experimentâ.
Ultimately, this is the major flaw in your reasoning.
I remind you, since you might have forgotten, that this platform is a video game forum, for a NOT real life video game. Therefore we are not mugging imaginary pixels in a make-believe world; we are having fun playing within the confined rules of the said video game.
If there is something you did not understand, read this forum post AGAIN to get reminded that this is a video game.
Even with WM on, thereâs rules about grieving. Imo what you and your fellow âfaceless lackiesâ are doing is grieving. Simple as that. Itâs a despicable kind of behaviour and youâre hiding behind the statement that itâs a âsocial experimentâ. The truth of the matter is that all of the participants are just acting sadistic and having fun at other peopleâs expense. Thereâs no talking around that. THAT is the truth.
So my reasoning is sound. Acting bad irl or acting bad in a game is the same basic behaviour. Acting like that within the âlawâ or ârulesâ doesnât make that behaviour any less despicable (thereâs examples of that irl too, so yes maybe I should have used such an example).
A very good example would be Blizzardâs actions regarding the âHong Kong Hearthstoneâ incident. None of it was against any rules or laws, but many, many people severely lashed out and condemned Blizzard for those (legal) actions.
You leave me no choice but to debunk your claims yet again. Let us begin:
The word which made your whole statement irrelevant here is imo.
You see, opinions are like behinds, everyone has one; and as weâre in luck, Blizzard doesnât suspend players who do not live up to your personal expectations, but for breaking their rules. If youâve read the posts above, which Iâm sure you havenât, you would see Blizzardâs official statement on this matter âDo not turn WM on unless you want to engage in PvP combat.â
The worst thing I can do to you in game is maybe make you pay a visit to the spirit healer until you turn WM off, while in real life people can do much worse things to each other. I just find it hilarious that you are pushing a SJW agenda here without any arguments, because by pressing WM on, you gave me consent to gank you.
While I understand your need to, for whatever reason, farm forum replies and get to 3k posts on this character as soon as possible, I would kindly ask you not to actively try to derail this survey and stay on topic, because otherwise that would constitute as trolling and people could start flagging your replies for such act.
why are some of the replies flagged and hidden? Red them all and NOTHING was offensive in any way? SJW abusing the report system and sensoring people again?
Exactly, Rottenheim. If you read the entire forum thread you will know who flagged them (as well as flagged my original post, which then got unflagged by the mods), but donât let that get to you.
Please give my survey a reply, if itâs no bother to you. It would mean a lot.
I assume his âsocial experimentâ is how many decent people can justify their bad behaviour by joining âhive mindâ thus outsourcing their bad acts to the said âhive mindâ and feeling not personally responsible for them. Thatâs why everyone gives up their indetity when joining that group. Itâs about people committing acts as anonymous part of hivemind that they wouldnât do as inviduals using their own name. He just doesnât want to say it out loud.
Just because you like being a faceless sheep, doesnât mean others do. My statement isnât any less relevant because itâs my opinion. You donât get to devalue MY opinion.
There is a HUUUUGE difference between you, as a person, ganking someone and a whole group of similarly named, similarly looking people all ganging up on someone. And you KNOW that, Iâm sure.
Youâre now accusing me of something Iâm not doing. Iâm sharing my opinions in this thread, as is my right. THAT is what the forums is for. Not your personal tool for fake surveys.
You and your conspirators are guilty of acting like horrible human beings. As long as you deny that, Iâll not move along. Stop hiding behind fake social experiment claims. Iâm suspecting that itâs YOU whoâs trolling and this thread is just âhumblebraggingâ about your horrible deeds. Prove me wrong.
Tahra, at this point you are just showing bad mannors and weak arguments. I wish you a wonderful day, regardless; as I do not wish to childishly bicker with you any longer.
Dont mind Tahra, EVERYTHING, offends herâŠeven mythic plus.
If the same type of guild forms on alliance side, I would totally join them! Would like to keep my name though.
Actually got ganked in SW by you guys. Had great fun fighting ( and hiding) against you.
Dont mind all the negativity, you guys are actually making the world feel more alive and dangerous. If you dont like getting ganked or grieved. TURN OFF WARMODE.
I will add your valuable response to the survey answers.
I urge you to try and create an alliance guild, with some friends, in a similar fashion and we could organise some PvP events at some random location like Outland and have a blast.
Thanks about the âmaking the world feel alive bitâ, since it is what we are actively trying to do. Itâs great fun and it makes for great memories with my friends.
Iâm making claims based on logic and facts, but all I get back is: âyoure trolling and derailing the threadâ instead of PROOF that would debunk my claims (which leads me to believe Iâm right even more).
