[Ifrit] Keston (bc)

[Keston]

Rakex, I can testify that I have never ripped a person off, stolen, or been otherwise dishonest, or any thing of those manners in my entire time in FFXI (from PS2 release). So no, I've never done any "messed up shit". But I have very little tolerance for certain traits I see in certain individuals, and as such, cut their bullshit off at the knees when I see it. I'll be the one speaking out when I see something unfair (to myself, or to others), which doesn't make me so popular, but I do it because someone has to. This tends to infuriate many of those who wish me malice. I blacklisted Airenn over 2.5years ago, and that I do not entertain any contact with her in-game (unfortunately cant do it on a forum) is one of the things that fuels this malice that you can feel in the very atmosphere of her and Judai's posts.


Its not that I am unable to defend myself, its that I'm not willing to get into the nasty-name-calling type flaming that personalities like Judai are so fond of spewing. I'm 28 years of age, I'm beyond that kind of thing. They can do it if they want, repeatedly (and they have)... but I won't.

I mean, a person I haven't interacted with in the game in 2.5 years, from the sounds of the insults (first post, he calls me like 3-4 names, without provocation), you'd imagine this is a person whom I either killed his first born recently, or MPK'd his alliance last week or something. Something has festered and fed this hatred/malic, but Its not me doing anything wrongful unto them.

The simple "rumor" about me moving and leaving their drama-whoring behind prompted"spite" on his part to sabotage efforts to be rid of them.

But this "communication" has always been the same. I make a post, in response to whatever, without getting nasty, and one of them will respond with a flame thats usually name-calling and nasty remarks. The "stories" he's posted we're pretty unbelievable... it truly reads like fiction to me. But eh whatever, I'm not going to post any "counter-stories" to say what really happened. What's the point in that? Its one person saying tit, one saying tat.

Wether they like it or not, I am moving on. Their efforts may hinder as some ponder "what if its true" and become wary, but as always will never stop me.

[Lokiseinn]

While I've subscribed BG forums for a long time, my account is under another name. So I thought I'd make one as Lokiseinn just for this post. I received a PM from Keston asking that I post here. Not sure if he's going to like it, but I have known him a very long time. Probably longer than anyone else who has posted here. In fact, I first met Keston before he had ANY 75 jobs. I'll break this up into pros and cons.

Pros:
Keston is very helpful and reliable. He's probably helped more people get AF, rare/ex gear, weapons, missions, quests, etc., than anyone I know of, yet rarely does he ask others for help getting what he wants. While he ran SN, I don't think he missed more than one Sky day, LS help Day, or any other LS event. Keston is a self-starter. Which is why he has so many 75 jobs, he never seeks, just makes a party whenever he wants to exp/merit.


Cons:
Keston is an ass (This is nothing I haven't told him to his face before). Despite disclaimers by some, he is not just an ass to noobs/screw-ups/bad peeps, etc. Keston is very arrogant, he believes there are only 2 ways to do things. The wrong way and Keston's way. I dont believe that Keston possesses much in the way of empathy, as he has little or no tolerance for anyone who does not see things as he does. In my dealings with Keston I found that he had difficulty in accepting responsibility for his own screw-ups. He is quick to blame others, yet slow or unable to blame himself. Keston is good at some of his jobs, but he is not as good on all of them as he thinks he is. Then there is the matter of the SN LS bank, which I won't go into here.

So, thats the long and short of it. Keston isn't a bad player for the most part, helps others, asks for little. But he is a control freak, and is lacking in some social skills.

[Venture]

Ifritian posts filled with drama and spite go hand-in-hand as much as jelly in doughnuts, so take the hating with a degree of salt. It's just the natural order.

[Keston]

Then there is the matter of the SN LS bank, which I won't go into here.

Thank you for posting. I'll take the good with the bad. Being a control-freak isn't a trait I'm ashamed to let be seen. I like things to go right, who knew. Though, this mainly stems from having to create/organize most things myself in order to see it accomplished. I am moving on now and looking for a place to follow, with people who have just as much initiative, and know how. So that I can relax, and follow for a change. But you post has pointed out the helpful and dedication of my nature, and not once mention of being dishonest or malicious. The majority of my time in this game, has been toward helping others, and always giving them preference over any thing/item I would have liked for myself. Even made sure to make the dynamis shell for our people before I left, giving all my worth left behind to benefit them. Look up the Zodiac sign/description for Leo (thats my sign), and you'll hit right on the money about my personality.

As for the SN Bank, when I left the game in october, I liquidated all of it, including all my possessions, and left it behind to the linkshell to use for dynamis (10-15M from the LS stuff, and about 40-50M of from my own gear/possessions from 3yrs I sold). I know you thought it should be distro'd to individuals, but I did not. Everyone who was ever on the attendance list would need to get something to be fair, and that would be hard to divy up, and with more than 50-60 on that list would be nothing much for each person.

Honestly, when I quit and left you and some others to pick up the pieces, if you had carried it on, this would have been instructed to be released for your/the-ls use. But the people I left behind was not able to carry on the LS for even a few weeks, and I suspected as much would occur. Hence why i did not leave the funds in the state to be an item of controversy while the linkshell was not solid. I left it to the Dynamis shell, so it could be a gift that kept on giving, to everyone who participated. Unfortunately, even that was not kept up as I found when I returned in December.

I read the comments on our forums from one person, "we don't need you Keston", and I receded and left them to run it how they pleased. I came back in december to find they stopped the runs, and the member base had vanished. This is the phobia that instigates the control-freak... I put faith in some, to be dedicated to succeeding and putting the needed effort, and sometimes (like in these instances) end up disappointed.

As for jobs, I have never once claimed I'm great at all my jobs. Simply point out the ridiculous nature of the ones who say "he sux at all job". I mean... really. Does that make any sense? I've got 10 Macro sets, and 11-12 Jobs to work with. Not on PC, I play on PS2. SO dont have all your windower hacks/plugins or w/e else to get unlimited macros. My THF has maybe 3-4 macros right now, its hard to do some things when it needs to be done manually like that. RNG has much of the same issue. About 2-4 of my jobs work with a macro set shared with another job due to space/macro limitations. I've never claimed to be something terrific on everything, however those who attempt to ridicule me suggest it in mockery. So perhaps this is where that impression originated.

[Ceng]

i was asked to post here by a very good friend of mine. who just so happens to be airenn. and she asked me to post about my dealings or runins with keston.

From what i've seen of keston and from the things i've heard. and none of them have been good.
Keston is not a good person. never has been never will be. everyone on here has called him an ass because that's what he is. there's not getting past it he's an ass. as far as his lolendLS i'm not even gonna get into that. i have friends that were in it and they hate him now, and say some very bad things behind his back. and as for his jobs and or gil. the fact that during the hight of ifrit inflation that he spent over 50mil for serket ring on any one of his loljobs that he plays on there is just mind boggling. now i'm not saying kestons a gilbuyer. but 50mil for a ring that his ls could have got if they could only have claimed Serket, is just sad. you want 50 more mp buy a hi ether.

i've never liked keston. he's been an ass to many of my friends and anytime someone puts him in a corner for it he'll either deny it or play the fool and back away. he's not good at defending himself because he has no way to defend himself. he has nothing to back up his statements or comments. he simply does everything without thought or consequence and has no remorse for what he does. and i wouldn't pass up this chance to shut him down because he's hurt a few of my friends personally and i dont forgive and forget when someone like him who cares about no one does that to friends of mine.

so take this however you want. i'm simply here to post a point.

[Omnipotent]

. the fact that during the hight of ifrit inflation that he spent over 50mil for serket ring on any one of his loljobs that he plays on there is just mind boggling. now i'm not saying kestons a gilbuyer. but 50mil for a ring that his ls could have got if they could only have claimed Serket, is just sad. you want 50 more mp buy a hi ether.

Only reason Keston has that money is not because of a ring, but because before he took a break he sold all of this stuff during deflation. When crap was ridiculously overpriced. And when he came back everything was deflated and that 35M ish he had or w/e which used to barely be enough to buy an earth crystal is now an Impossible to gauge hunk of change.

[Keston]

Umm.. I don't now, or ever had (or bought) a serket ring. Its down to 1M and I wouldn't buy one. I use a Trooper's Ring (-4 Enmity) & Ether Ring. Not to Mention I only leveled WHM37-75 this year (in march or april), after I returned to the game. Before I quit/took-break, all my worthy was in my gears, and I've never had over 10M. Until I sold it all at the end of last october. Honestly, how do you guys come up with this, and keep a straight face?

[Brolli]

OK guys let me break this down for u my char name is brolli from Ifrit. started playin cpu release. didnt meet kest right away but prob known him for...well idk long time i guese. the guy is honest to a fault. he doesnt hold grudges doesnt play favorites and doesnt respond to the name calling or all together argueing ppl love to do on this game. i beleive its the lack of responce that gets him hated. the ppl who are firends with kest are loyal to him w/out a 2nd thought they have to be as the number of ppl who hate him for no reason at all begin to hate us for being seen with him. If u were to go to ifrit server and ask ppl about keston u would get alot of negetive statments prob containing even more profanity. but if u follow that statment with the question why do u hate keston? asuming u get a reply at all it will be "ive heard he did this" or "my friend said" reminds me of the stupidity that is high school. in all the time ive known keston ive never seen him mistreat som1 and like ive said ive known him for a very long time. whether or not u believe me i could care less. the facts are the facts i hope u all an look past the gossip and let the man prove himself.

as for ppl questioning kests skill. When SupaNova(kestons HNMLS) was first gettin goin i member one time that i will prob member most from FFXI. me a mnk/nin with not leet gear at all and kest on his smn/blm(for escape purposes) were duon statues for ulli mmore effeciently than the rest of our alliance was. some of u can say well some ppl can solo them blah blah idc. this wasnt only instance ive done some cool shit that wasnt expectin to go well. i think everyday for prob a year i got a tell from kest askin for help with somethin, which was no biggy at all cus i was always bored. but the thing is 49/50 times the help wasnt for kest. it was kest helping som1 else and gettin some muscle.

i should kick u alls ass makin me think about the crack after i quit the game if i come back i blame it on this post so F u all!

[Venture]

lolBrolli. I still remember when you and Mrpopo Dia'ed Ose from me and Aphelion way back when, when we were soloing it BST and RDM. That was a real nice MPK there. What was that you said? "You shouldn't have let him go unclaimed." Only person who i've watched as he and his skill-up party in Boyahda Tree were wiped out by massive Darter linkage, just to get a screenshot of standing on your corpse. I was on BST at the time, and could have saved your entire party from dying, but that screenshot was worth just standing around to watch.

You and Keston deserved each other, and are the perfect combination for what SupaNova was all about. All the worthless noobs in one place, because they couldn't find a place in a more refined shell. I hope wherever Keston goes next, his only endgame option is to again make his own LS, and pick up everyone else's trash to further congest sky even more then it already is.

[Narilka]

Hmmm let's see... I've been playing FFXI for 3 years now, and have known Keston for 99% of those three years... Since he's my friend this will not be an un-bias opinion, but it will be the truth from my eyes.

Keston is regarded as an asshole by a decent amount of the server, given the retarded server population of ifrit this is to be expected. What people fail to mention is that those who have come to this conclusion are aflicted with one or more of the following failings. 1) Egotistical, 2) Horrible play skills, 3) Unable to take critisism, 4) Greed, 5) Simply retarded. Though some people have just decided that their personalities don't match with Keston's, the majority of haters fail from one of the above traits. While most would hide behind a facade of friendliness and buddy buddy charm, Keston tells these people exactly how he feels... and then blists them when their differences can't be worked out.

As fo my own personal dealings with Keston, he has been one of my best friends on this game since we started playing. For those not on his blist Keston is consistently out helping people kill NMs, Farm Gear, do Missions/Quests and basically has no life since he still manages to find time to exp in all of this.

Also, for those of you that will read this. I don't care what your opinion's are about Keston or what I've said here on this thread. If you message me in game I will not take kindly to it. Thanks ^^

[Keston]

Karly (Venture), if i made a a thread callled [Ifrit] Karly (bc), how many unsavory things would you see there? Many. Now even the other day, i remember doing some Assault runs with you. I didn't express any kind of hatred, dislike, or malice toward you. On the internet, people get very nasty while hiding behind anonymity. You seem to practice this well.

[Kilik]

Who is RakEx and why is he talking about shit he knows nothing about? Im not gonna say Ifrit is anywhere near one of the top servers, but his post couldnt be any more incorrect.

[JafoZero]

Who is RakEx and why is he talking about shit he knows nothing about? Im not gonna say Ifrit is anywhere near one of the top servers, but his post couldnt be any more incorrect.

RakEx is Rakeen, left for Hades long time ago when that server first opened.

[Venture]

Please, Keston, I told people where I was going, that I was leaving, and what my new name would be when I got there. You think i'm not going to be straight to people when I get there about my history, or be worried about trying to cover up my misdeeds on Ifrit? Rabbi already got shot down trying to fool his way off of Ifrit. Just be honest and open for a change, and maybe someone on your new server will think you might be salvageable enough to give you a second chance. Hell, if you would just pull back and throw out a few sincere apologies, we might decide to not hound you off of Ifrit everywhere you go.

As is, misdirection is yet another of your tricks. You're as predictable as the tides because you have such a long history of arguing all over the place. I even called it when I said you'd not only show up as soon as Judai mentioned your name, but that you'd argue to you fall over dead from asphyxiation. If you haven't failed your background check on the premise of all the drama that surround you, i'd be surprised.

[Keston]

I even called it when I said you'd not only show up as soon as Judai mentioned your name, but that you'd argue to you fall over dead from asphyxiation.

Judai's post dated 19th of July, this thread, started on the 21st. You lost me. Sorry, I'm currently reading this thread from the dark side of Jupiter... takes a while for the submit button to go through.

And perhaps you're missing the testimony of me spending most of my time helping others. There is more coming also. And no, Judai's post claiming a bunch of people said a bunch of stuff isn't testimony. The boy has some creativity though, and he seems to fill in the blanks in many places to his pleasure. This is "testimony" of someone who hasn't done any thing with me in 2 and a half years by the way. His first hand accounts of the facts border on extra sensory... (i call it something else, but eh).

The manner of these never have, and never will change. You and your cohorts flame hatred, I respond in a civil manner, your hatred festers more. The people on my blist, after not too long, i forget about them and carry on with my life/game and not give them a second thought. But you fine folks, just troll wherever you can, overflowing with more bitterness than I'd call healthy.

[Venture]

I even called it when I said you'd not only show up as soon as Judai mentioned your name, but that you'd argue to you fall over dead from asphyxiation.

Judai's post dated 19th of July, this thread, started on the 21st. You lost me. Sorry, I'm currently reading this thread from the dark side of Jupiter... takes a while for the submit button to go through.

Nitpicking at the exact definition of a word to try to win a point. Yet another Keston tactic. You know, you're not helping yourself at all. You've managed to roll Nitpicking in with Misdirection, though. 2-hit Keston Combo!

[Keston]

I even called it when I said you'd not only show up as soon as Judai mentioned your name, but that you'd argue to you fall over dead from asphyxiation.

Judai's post dated 19th of July, this thread, started on the 21st. You lost me. Sorry, I'm currently reading this thread from the dark side of Jupiter... takes a while for the submit button to go through.

Nitpicking at the exact definition of a word to try to win a point. Yet another Keston tactic. You know, you're not helping yourself at all. You've managed to roll Nitpicking in with Misdirection, though. 2-hit Keston Combo!

I post a response, you call it nitpicking. I don't post, you say I can't defend myself or you've "owned" me and I can't respond. Damned if I do, damned if I don't . I'm not trying to "win" a point, I just like pointing out certain things, as examples as to someone's tendency to make up or stretch their perceptions. If one there is one example of you bending or using partial/made-up truths for purposes of flaming material, would it be hard to imagine there being others?

[Lokiseinn]

I guess I should clarify a couple things. From reading my post, one might think I do not like Keston. This is not the case. I've told Keston he's an ass a lot of times, and I've told him many times he's a control freak. If you are only friends with people who have no faults, then you don't really have any friends at all. Or least your friends are not who you think they are. I try to judge people by their bad AND their good points. And I think Keston's good points pretty much outweigh the bad, although it really is difficult for most to see past the rudeness, and the better than thou attitude.

No one in this world, on this game, or on any server, can say that everyone loves us. If you are universally loved, I'm staying away from you. Because you are likely a time bomb with so much suppressed rage and hatred that you will explode when least expected. I think the most important thing is to recognize our own failings and work to correct them.

Unfortunately, most who change servers think that their former server was the problem. It was their former server that was filled with assholes, idiots, loot whores and such. It was their former server that was causing all their troubles. Sorry boys and girls, that isn't the case by a long shot. You are not going to run away from your troubles by changing servers. This is because YOU are the cause of your own problems. Not just meaning Keston, I mean all of you who change servers thinking its going to be different. The only way it will be different is if you make the effort to see your own failings, and do something to change them.

So, if 50+ people think you are an ass, maybe you should quit calling it being "brutally honest" and look at the fact that maybe you ARE an ass. If people think you are antagonistic, mean, and rude, maybe you should quit blaming it all on Ifrit, and look at what YOU have done to cause this. If you are hated for being a liar and a thief, changing servers won't help if you don't change.

I don't exempt myself from this either. I was developing a bad reputation, becoming known as an arrogant, self-righteous, angry, intolerant ass. For a long time I believed it was not me who had the problem, it was all you low-browed idiots. I don't think that now, but I did then. Since I started realizing that it wasn't you, it was me, I've tried to keep a low profile and work on myself. I can't say I'm finished working on myself (don't think I ever will be), but I am trying.

So in closing, yes Keston has some failings, but so do the rest of us. He has still always been one of the most helpful and giving people I have known. Even if he does critique your every move while he helps.

[Keston]

So no LEOs play ffxi irl?
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Forgive me, I was born in July (muh burfday next week)

[Venture]

Hahah, in light of recent information, you can have him. I'm pretty sure he's not gonna leave many people weeping in the memory of his presence on Ifrit, anyways. Him falling flat on his face and being kicked from the best LS he could ever get in because he won't recognize he has a attitude problem would be karmatic justice enough. Ifrit being rid of him to fail somewhere else is plenty satisfactory enough for me.