City of Junior High Cliques

I actually had a life over the Labor Day weekend — aside from the Shadow Shard on Saturday afternoon.

Sometime thereafter — Sunday night? — evidently there was some sort of Great Januaryesque Brouhaha in the Alliance. I was unaware of this since, well, I wasn’t on when it happened. And when I did sign on later Sunday evening, the CC and Alliance OOC were quiet.

When BD came over for dinner this evening, he mentioned that there had been some complaints, public posting of private stuff, people making threats, folks getting booted, and general brouhaha. And when I got on later tonight, I learned that some folks I know quite well had been booted from SG groups they were long-time members of.

So … what the …?

I really dislike this kind of finger-pointing name-calling faction-forming “Give in to my demands or else I’ll take my ball and go home” kind of crap. And were it not that there are quite a few folks I enjoy playing with on occasoin, my inclination would be to simply withdraw from all of it and simply continue to do solo and duo stuff with Margie.

I mean, really, folks — this is supposed to be City of Heroes. and, frankly, for all the drama I sometimes see with the Avenges and X-teams and Justice League, none of it seems to hold a camel to the immaturity I keep seeing around here.

(And, for what it’s worth, if various associates who find themselves homeless would care to apply to the CoJ, give a holler. And, heck, if folks need new forum space … let me know.)