From the beginningI first met Tom around a year and a half ago on Blockland, prior to his creation of the clan, IEvent. For the most part, it was pretty nice. He could be sometimes impatient, and a bit reckless with some clan decisions. It was, for the most part, alright. I was a long time member for the most part. The clan's activity sort of degraded, and the most we did was bi-weekly deathmatch servers and dedicated servers that were continuously barren of players. This long streak of membership soon came to an end during a certain activity.
Teenage angst and butthurt ensueMe, Frontrox, TomTheGeek, Keonesan, and Makanix would sometimes play games like Warzone 2100(This I'll discuss later) Minecraft, and Blockland while talking on skype. This is sort of the point where stuff hit the fan. I'm not exactly sure why, but it sort of started around the first time we'd play Warzone 2100. We decided to play once when Tom was talking about it, apparently he's played it before. So we decided to give it a try. We had teams locked to me and Rings of Saturn (I'm not sure what his name is here on the forums. I'm having trouble remembering it.) and TomTheGeek with Keonesan. The teams were matched pretty unfairly because both TomTheGeek and Keonesan had played it before, and me and Rings Of Saturn were both complete newbies.
He had killed us off in minutes, and after he or Keonesan raided my base a second or third time, the damage to me had become unrepairable. I left the game, mainly protesting the fact that the teams were assigned so unfairly. We didn't play until tomorrow, and basically the exact same thing happened. Eventually I got matched with Tom, and he'd blame every shortcoming on the team about me, "Not doing anything". He was a huge starfish me, a person who hasn't even played the game for a full week. Things get exponentially worse very soon.
It gets worse
This point in the story occurs around the same time TomTheGeek was hosting his minecraft server. Particularly the one with Makanix's huge awesome house of wonders. Tom shows me around the house, etc etc. I'll skip ahead to the point where Makanix leaves the skype call to go to sleep. I ask Tom if I can place a novelty trap hidden somewhere inside of the house as an easter egg/joke. He agrees to let me build one, on the conditions it does not have TNT in it. So I build a little room hidden above the library with a tiny flow control device powered by a lever that can drop lava into the room. It might be considered dangerous to place lava so near a flammable room, so I placed some safety measures to ensure nothing bad happens.
I wake up tomorrow to see I'm removed from the whitelist. I get in a skype call with TomTheGeek and Makanix, and Tom says he's unwhitelisted me from the server because he, "explicitly said that I couldn't build a trap". This was a shock, seeing that he agreed I could build one as long as it didn't have lava in it. I try reasoning, but he wouldn't listen at all. We stop talking about it, and a two and a half hour conversation (That I recorded. Yes, It's a stalker thing to do. But I knew he'd do stupid stuff) begins, that includes him destroying my redstone sand door machine I was working on with cuboid, drowning me in lava, striking me with lightning many times, and other things. Yet one that stood out, was that he struck me with lightning inside of Makanix's library, catching the floor on fire. In which, he said he'd blame me for it when Makanix finds out.
Here's a sample of the audio tape, in which I ask him if he could put his server up. He bitches me out and acts like I've asked him 5 times before. Realistically, I only asked him once about 10 minutes beforehand, while he was working on downloading some drivers for some piece of hardware.
http://www.mediafire.com/?qxh7vo7y565qdxiThis will be one of the two times he's called me autistic. (How classy, Tom.)
After this happened, about a week later, we do another Warzone 2100 game, which ends in Tom ragequitting when I invaded his base (Well after the designated cease-fire time we had agreed on). This was so hypocritical, I blocked him from my skype. I had him blocked for two months, until now.
Keep in mind, this is the first time where he starts threatening to use his LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Cannon. It's a piece of software that is used to DDoS websites by script kiddies and /b/tards. This is a perfect example of how loving immature he is.) whenever someone angers him. This is handicapped because a single client DoSing someone will not do anything at all. Tom knows nothing about this.
This was also the point where I, "Resigned" from IEvent, with this post.
Quoted directly from a PM to Makanix:
After you left, Tom completely loving covered my sand door machine I was creating with lava, called me a friend, and started shooting me with lightning.
In the process, your library partially caught on fire. He told me he'd blame me for the fire when it happened, and then made 4 or 5 horrible attempts at banning me before figuring out he couldn't and removed me from the banlist.
after which, he started calling me a, "cigaretteola" because I woke up his mom because he was bitching because his bans wouldn't work.
See linked picture(s):
Previous to that, he was trying to convince me that Metal, Plaz, and him were forming an, "Anti-SeventhSandwich" club on his facebook."
After actually talking with him on Skype these last few weeks, I've realized he's the most loving annoying person I have ever met. Any form of reasoning I tried to use against him only ended in him saying, "lololololololololol" (Yes, he actually says that into the microphone) and continuing to destroy my work on minecraft.
Most of this stuff started today when he unwhitelisted me for putting a mini trap near your house. Which is funny because late at night on sunday he told me I could, and later completely jumbled up the arrangement we had when you were on the server.
I have this all on a two and a half hour conversation tape from skype which includes things such as:
- Him blaming me for blabbering, then talking to himself (With his mic on) for 25 straight minutes about NIC card drivers and why Mac OS X sucked while I worked on homework.
- Him telling me he'd blame me for the fire caused in your home's library
- Him pouring lava on the dropping sand door gadget I was making in minecraft
- Him bitching about why he couldn't ban me from the server (Keep in mind this was after I told him I was recording everything) and comparing me to poiuyt.
I'm also going to quote this and post it in the IEvent thread, and I guess it may serve as a resignation letter. All of this can be verified with you, Makanix, Keonesan, Frontrox, and my audio tape that is saved in a 230 MB mp3 on my desktop. (I'll give you a download if you wish).
I'll also probably upload it on my youtube for easy access
(In multiple installations likely, because there's just too much juicy dumbassery to be contained in one 12 minute video).
Warzone 2100 with TomTheGeek is the worst experience ever, as his age drops from 15 down to 7 every time he's attacked. He bitches and moans and eventually just ragequits, and because he always forces us to make him the host of the server, it ends the game for all 3 other players.
Minecraft with him is even worse because he completely loving destroyed a total of maybe 4 hours of work, counting the hour trying to reason with him to let me fix my sand door gadget, and the three hours I took cleaning up this mess that I accidentally released onto a cliffside when he was offline and I was making an arrow cannon:
Protip: If you are whitelisted on his Minecraft and accidentally release a molten inferno on a 100 block high mountain, just let the starfish clean it up himself.
one last thing to add:
I tried actually asking him why he was so loving pissed at me, and he just said he was busy and couldn't say right now. I think he just loving does this because he thinks it's fun.
Oh also, TomTheGeek mentioned that I'm a friend because I find info about people who are alts on the forums.
Well excuse me, I find people who were previously banned from the forums so the admin can do away with them and we don't have to deal with them being stupid a whole second time.
What the forget do you do? IEvent hasn't done anything in months. This clan has suffered the same fate Ascii events, BIT, The Craftsmen, and countless other clans have fallen to.
Where we stand nowI had him unblocked yesterday, as a couple of us (Frontrox and The_Russian to be exact) wanted to do a warzone 2100 match, yet we didn't have 4 players. It actually went well, and I was thinking of just burying the hatchet, until today of course.
Today, we did a Warzone 2100 match together, and it went well for the first part. Until the battles began. Frontrox was invading his base and I was trying to back him up with planes, but I was too busy actually securing my base so The Russian wouldn't destroy me. He started blaming me for it, saying, "SeventhSandwich isn't doing anything". And, "SeventhSandwich is still crying because you raided his base"
forget you tom. It ended in him ragequitting, which ended the game because he insisted on being the host. (When you're the host, leaving the game means ending it for the other people. What a richard! D:). He then started talking about this, "Secret server" That Kalphiter has, and that
he wanted to learn how to hack FTP servers, so he could hack Kalphiter. Around that point, he started flaunting around his LOIC, where I then started to tell him that attacking someone by yourself with the LOIC won't do anything. This pissed him off, so I decided to prove it to him by giving him my IP and letting him try.
The first time, he aimed it at me, and it crashed his internet (I'm not even kidding, within 10 seconds of starting it he crashed). The second time he aimed it at Frontrox, he crashed again. At which point he returned, incredibly angry, yelling at me for making fun of his LOIC. And how it didn't work because, "LOIC isn't good enough and I need better tools that I could get on a hacking forum." He then ended by calling me an autistic friend and blocking me.
Summary (TL;DR)TomTheGeek's mood swings and general social handicapation make it impossible to play any game with him, without him making empty threats at you using a DDoS program, or bitching and moaning until he finally quits the server in frustration. His clan is a lost cause, because he never has the willpower to actually create events or organize projects that the clan members can work on. If you don't want him to threaten you with his LOIC program, or annoy the forget out of you with his, "Charlie Sheen" sized ego acquired from years of, "Leading" a dead clan that has a lot of posts on it's thread, I suggest you avoid partaking in his Skype calls or becoming a member in his clan. His immaturity has proved to me that despite knowing him for 2 years, he can still manage to completely treat you like stuff.
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