[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] CrazzySnipe55 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] chubbz [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] CrazzySnipe55 [quote][/quote] Finally, the group that, let's be honest, should be two due to the huge difference between people like Halo53 and someone who made their account on June 14th, 2009 and is just now getting that blue bar, the Mythics. This is the generation where you can become semi-famous (a made up adjective of the highest prestige 'round these parts), or at the very least become a name that someone can look at and recall having existed before "just now". This is the generation Ninjas are pulled from. This is the generation people want to be. This is the generation so cool that they made a group about how cool they were and then had other generations make an inferior group so that they too could pretend to be cool whilst waiting on the roster in Scranton-Wilkes Barre to be called up to NYC. This is also, regrettably, a generation that gets a reputation both simultaneously undeserved to the last complaint thread, and at the same time fully deserved from all those unmistakably present threads in MM about "User X". The word "elitism" is thrown around a lot. Some might argue more than it should. I would agree with "some". I don't think the Mythics get a good rap considering most of them are just snarky and sarcastic because they're looking for a new way to respond to how they feel about a notification system or custom avis, having already done so fifty times previously. But that's just me. [/quote] Wow, that's an awful lot of assumptions about a user group/private group you know next-to-nothing about. You seem upset. [/quote]Upset? No. Quite the opposite. I have a lot -- well, a reasonable amount -- of respect for Mythics. They've all been here and managed to have some sort of reason for coming back along with still finding some level of enjoyment in the site, and for that I commend them. As for the assumptions I've made, I don't see how I can have done anything else. How is it possible to make a not-so-retrospective and yet still presently relevant thread about different generations on BNet without either cutting the threads length in half owing to the fact that I have not and am not apart of 50% of the generations/user groups on the site, which would then have amounted to a less than mediocre blog thread about my experiences when I was a member and over the past few days as a Hero, or instead doing what I did and making educated guesses about user groups and private groups that I have not been, am not now, or may never be in? Also, in other posts I've made in this thread, (namely in response to, I believe it was drummer and Nerd Boi but I could be wrong) I thought anyway, that I'd made it fairly clear that I had used the "threads about User X" Example mainly as hyperbole, again because I don't know about those groups from any sort of direct experience so I needed to take from what I knew about it (and the boobs thread didn't seem applicable to this thread). As for my comments about snarkiness and sarcasm from them, that's not being cited as a bad thing. Hell, I'm snarky and sarcastic sometimes. But the excessive use of snark and sarcasm is, from what I've gathered from posts from site veterans in the past (citations not available due to the authors handles being unknown), due to having talked about almost every topic imaginable upwards of dozens upon dozens of times and needing a new way to express themselves in a way that both entertains themselves and their fellow veterans. I'm sorry if any assumptions I've made have cast you or any other Mythix in a bad light. I only meant to observe what I could.[/quote] I said that because to me, it seemed like you used the examples you did out of personal experience with Mythics and not based on actual history. Understandably so, since you're not Mythic and not in the group. I'm sure you were aware of that apparent bias, but it doesn't help a conversation of 'what do you think of generational gaps' when your view of the oldest group may subtly influence others views as well. Believe it or not, MM doesn't care that much about User X, or any other infamous members. We spend more time hating on each other than we do everyone else. Most people will come to find that their preconceptions about us were false once they reach that milestone.