Memo333's Yu-Gi-Oh! story of rampant victimization by fellow peers!

Hi i'm Memo from the Pojo messageboards!

(Full credit goes to memo333 for writing this article and to gnarfard for proof-reading the article!)

I have been unfairly bashed ever since the time I joined as a member of the Pojo forums in January of 2006. Let me tell you about me before we start our journey!

I have always loved strategy games like Starcraft, Chess and Warcraft. Yu-Gi-Oh! was just another one of those strategy games I fell in love with.

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The first time I saw Starcraft, was when I was young and saw some kids playing Starcraft at Disneyland. I fell in love with that game immediately; all the rules, structures, music and gaming was just too much for me to take in!

Then I changed to Warcraft because it had heroes, and I love WC heroes!

In my university, lots of my friends played Yu-Gi-Oh! I didn't understand how to play, and I adamantly refused to learn to play. Time passed however, and I was getting bored of being the only one not playing Yu-Gi-Oh! so I decided to learn. I'm bad at theory and application of theory so I downloaded the Yu-Gi-Oh! Rom for the Gameboy and decided to learn and practice from there. I learned a lot!

Even though I learned a lot, I needed a teacher. The game couldn't speak to me, it couldn't explain to me the rules and what the cards were all about, so I joined some Yu-Gi-Oh! forum. It was a truly crappy forum; the mods were stubborn and the members were a bunch of trolls and idiots. I fled that forum and discovered...

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Pojo.

I didn't know all the damn Terms of Service of this site, because i'm too lazy to read all those stickies and forum rules. I just entered the forum and asked all the questions I had in mind. Here comes the tragic part of my story.

The moderators and the trolls and idiots ruined my experience.

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I didn't know what the hell SPAM meant. I was banned a multitude of times because of that, but I didn't do it on purpose, I was just ignorant. Just imagine a new pojo member that comes with nothing but good intentions in their heart, and suddenly some moderate PERMABANS the kid for spamming... that is not fair!

The kid would have had no way of knowing what spamming was and of the consquences. I learned the lesson through tough times and bannings, I was so pissed off, that I just wanted to quit Pojo forever, but I couldn't. I had to learn!

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I had two choices:

1) Leave Pojo and never Return
2) Learn to adapt to Pojo and become a better duelist

I decided that I wanted to learn to become a better duelist!

If I adapt I stay, and I needed to stay because I had to learn more and make my knowledge database a far extension of what I had originated with. The more I learned about rules and certain cards, the more chances I could have to win.

The reason I wanted to get better at the game was... The people playing the game against novices. They don't play fair. I want to play fair against newbies!

I can't please anyone. You can't be a keen paragon of light to everybody in the whole, wide world. The best way to be popular in life, is to have high self-esteem, and radiate your inner self. If you act like another person, you're nothing but a shell inside. A poser. You look fake in essence. People tend to defect away from those kinds of people. Just stay calm. Stay neutral. Steady!

Now I say that you can't get along with everybody, but you can keep ready and steady and then you can GO full throttle when you need to. The number one goal of bullies is to get you angry. If you get angry, you have automatically lost. Mind crush much? Don't permit yourself to get angry because that means you have lost your self-control and dignity. You have to go with the flow and keep steady!

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There are lots of ways to get angry, but the dumbest thing that people can do is to make other people angry. If your dog dies for example, you may feel angry, and think that life is not fair. That is the natural kind of anger. Nature's anger.

You can feel angry if your goldfish or a relative or a pet dies...

Because it is a natural feeling of sorrow or anger for a sentimental loss.

If you don't know someone, why the hell would you troll about their life?

If you don't know the person, there's nothing to be angry about.

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After all, why be angry when you can effectively baleet them from your life?

ou get angry, you have automatically lost. Mind crush much? Don't permit yourself to get angry because that me

That's my theory in Pojo; I don't really care what all the bashers and the like think about me. They could think i'm the strangest slack-sly-sober-succinct dingdong in the world but i'll still be back for more! Because I am memo333 and I have a lot to offer the world. I just want to do what I want to do!

That's what life is about:

Do what you really want to do: not what others want!

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I learned all this by going to tournaments and watching professional players duel, reading a lot of psychology books, and philosophy books. It's good to read. I feel like a professional Yu-Gi-Oh! player. I don't need to demonstrate my skills to anyone. I just know it in my heart. Many people tend to praise professional players just because they appear in Metagame as the winners, but there are better players than them. Thousands of them! I am a professional but...

I don't have all the cards to beat all those net decks, gosh three Solemn Judgments and three Dark Bribes? Who can afford that? With what money?

I am lazy enough to play with the same decks over and over... that is really boring and lame don't you think? Not really. I really enjoy playing my decks.

Why don't I buy a mirror and play mirror decks against myself; that would actually be kinda cool. But with what money? Ohh... look! More broken GB cards!

How original.

To finish, being popular is not my real goal. That is odd because that is what i'm quickly starting to become. The friend that taught me how to play Yu-Gi-Oh! is now my disciple. What a funny concept don't you think?

The truth is that any teacher can become the student at this great game. I took the decision to learn more and become the master. You might even call me Yoda!

I wanted to learn more to be better as a duelist.

I wanted to learn more to be better as a person, and I did it.

I wanted to be myself and I achieved that also... You can do it too!

Just believe that you are knowledgable and be eager for more power.

Knowledge is Power! And I am what you may call a learned man.

Sincerely yours Memo333!

Until next time,

Gnarfard.

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