LPI and the community.

[Dab]

Alright.. I'm sick of hearing the pathetic excuses that 'LPI got their own reputation' and 'LPI used to be donut munchers not so long ago.'

Would someone please care to read to us the date that the RP for the Rusty Donut story was written? Nearly a year ago. When was the Rusty Donut destroyed? 5 months ago. So I don't want to hear another excuse starting with 'Well the LPI did...'

What we did was ditch the whole donut routine over six months back. Since that time the LPI has acted in the way it does now. We're cops. We're corrupt, we like handing out bribes, we're a for-profit organization concerned with raking in cash as much as we are in keeping Liberty clean. We've worked very hard to live up to this faction's history, and I'm proud to say I've seen some excellent RP coming from the other LPI. Better RP than I find in most factions, including those that have been around for years.

If you reading this think that a person or faction's past actions should dictate his life forever more, than you shouldn't be out there criticizing, poking fun, or otherwise interacting with people you've known for longer than a month. I'm sure everyone here has done something in the past that they no longer do now. I'm sure everyone in here acted differently when they were five than they do now. Should that be held against you? No. Should the LPI's former RP be held against us as we try to RP the faction we've chosen to play as? Definitely not.

Few things on this game make me angry. I can be irritated, sure, and am quite often. But its rare for anything on Disco to actually make me angry. But thats the only word to describe my feelings when I logged on to Skype after being gone for a few days and the first thing I read is a quote from an LSF member. A member of the official LSF faction who was insulting one of the LPI members in an OORP manner and bashing the faction in general. LSF used to have a bad rep on this server. Not in an RP sense, but an OORP one. Fortunately, the faction cleaned up considerably and is now a proper and respectable official faction. But does that give them the right to insult the LPI, who've never done anything worse than RPing stereo-typical cops a year ago?

I certainly don't think so, so it makes me rather angry when someone who has been on the server for about a month or two thinks they have the right to insult us. I think the people here need to start thinking about the way they act to others, and start learning to be a little more polite in their social interactions. God help you if some of the people I've seen here act this same way in real life, because you'll get the crap beat out of you some day for an ill-thought out remark that you might think is funny, but definitely isn't to the other side.

Zapp, and especially Hack, have put a lot of time and effort into LPI. Treat them with the respect they deserve, just as you would give to your own faction's leader. The LPI may just be an acronym to you, but to us its a group of friends who enjoy playing a game on a server for some fun and don't want to have to fend off insults while we do it.

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