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Fall 2017 Newsletter
Spring 2017 Newsletter
Fall 2016 Newsletter
Spring 2016 Newsletter
August 15, 2015
- Spoiler:
Whether you are new or a veteran gamer, thank you everyone for helping us survive more than 12 years together as gaming community!
I wanted to wish all of you a Merry belated X-mas and also a fabulous new year! I hope everyone's wishes come true this coming 2018 and that many positives arrive at each individual's doorstep!
Here's a few things to look forward to:- Spot created a discord for us to use: https://discordapp.com/invite/WgTE8zj
- Discord is a free voice over IP application that you can download on mobile and computer.
- With the use of our discord server, there will be fun and interesting changes coming up in social media!
- Website has been updated with current and active links.
- Community rules may have some changes coming this new year as we will be focusing on integrating discord with gaming.
Here is your safety brief for the holidays:
1. Don't drink without a buddy.
2. Don't drive intoxicated. If you see a buddy trying to drive intoxicated. Take their keys!
3. Don't accept candy from strangers unless you have a buddy or bear.
4. Vary your routes or accompany/be accompanied by someone.
5. If you are military, be careful with wear in uniform. Don't take bad chances.
6. When in doubt, whip it out (ask)
7. "Warhead on Foreheads" does not apply here.
8. Give all enemies defeat!!!
9. Don't beat your wife, Don't beat someone else's wife.
10. Don't beat your husband, Don't beat someone else's husband.
11. Don't go to jail during the new years eve holiday.
12. Lastly, do not do anything Charr Jesus wouldn't do!
Lots of amazing things planned for the upcoming new year as we continue to evolve bringing many opportunities to gamers within the community! Time to make history!
"Once a Toy, Always a Toy"
Admin Bear- Spot created a discord for us to use: https://discordapp.com/invite/WgTE8zj
Spring 2017 Newsletter
- Spoiler:
These are the top 5 titles we are currently playing:- [PACT] Guild Wars 2
- [PACT] Star Wars The Old Republic
- [PACT] Ark Survival Evolved (steam)
- [PACT] Creativerse (steam)
- [PACT] Final Fantasy XIV (steam)
These games have been moved to casual-inactive status but the guilds in them are still playable:- [TOYS] Fly For Fun
- [TOYS] Guild Wars Trilogy
- [PACT] Minecraft (PC)
- Pokémon GO
- Kingdom Hearts Unchained/Union X (mobile)
- [TOYS] PokéMMO
Due to computer downtime, you may find many players (like Kashi) playing ESO via XBL. I strongly encourage everyone, regardless of what you play to register at http://www.onepact.net/ to be promoted in pact-related games and within the pact-team speak server!
Super highlights:- Kingdom Hearts X Unchained is having an AP 0 campaign for NINE days and an epic shop for TWELVE days! If you need to catch-up in the story or farm for medals (this is the optimal time to do just that!) Expect to see lux bonuses during the NA evenings!
- Guild Wars 2 PACT Guild has made changes to their raid & event times.
- SWTOR Dark & Light guilds are becoming more active by the day. If you are interested in playing either hop on TS3, discord or let me know via Messenger so I can add you to the guilds! The game is now free to play so don't feel discouraged by picking it up!
- ARK Survival is SAVAGE AF! It's an amazing game with beautiful dino graphics! If you play this game on steam (pc), please play in our PACT server! There's an entire crew waiting to help you get started!
"Once a Toy, Always a Toy"
~ MrBear- [PACT] Guild Wars 2
Fall 2016 Newsletter
- Spoiler:
Howdy everyone! Here is what you need to know for the next few months:- I changed the website template to feel a little livelier. If you have a template in mind or you want me to revert it back to the old one, let me know!
- ALL ancient threads dating 2015 and prior have been locked to avoid necroing the old threads. You will need to create new ones. Make it lively ya?
- ALL thread formats have been fixed for the new template. ALL super light colors have been changed to darker - able to see - colors.
- ALL links, videos and pictures have been updated including the Site Regulations + TOS thread and the portals for welcome, guild wars content & ustream!
Gaming Calendar with Aspiring Brotherhood [PACT]: https://teamup.com/ksc3e82c560188d55c#/
Important highlights are streamed on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/sexytoysgn
Important Gamers Giving Back (Nonprofit Breast Cancer Awareness) Events:
Planning meeting for PDiLA (October 22nd), PDiAA (October 8th) and Quaggan Waddle (September 24th)
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/681492448673107/
ADD ME to your friends list for more gaming activities:- Nintendo 3DS: 5000-5549-3233
- Nintendo WiiU: ParanormalBear
- PlayStation Network: MrBearToy88
- Microsoft XBOX Live: MrBearToy
- Steam:http://steamcommunity.com/id/mrbeartoy
- Guild Wars Trilogy: Paranormal Bear
- Guild Wars 2: Paranormal Bear.2539
- PokeMMO: ParanormalBear
- SWTOR: (dark) Paranormalbear, Fated Saber; (light) Celestial One, Asylias
- Minecraft PC: MasterSaber
"Once a Toy, Always a Toy"
~ MrBear- I changed the website template to feel a little livelier. If you have a template in mind or you want me to revert it back to the old one, let me know!
Spring 2016 Newsletter
- Spoiler:
- Happy Bear-late New Years everyone!Bear is back from military training and with a bunch of console games to play!
The following were purchased/are currently owned:
https://toygamers.forumotion.com/t365-bear-s-current-list-of-game-titles
New community events for the month of March 2016:- MAR12-26 Fire Emblem Fates: Group Castle Visit
- MAR12 GW2: Guild Night with [PACT]
- MAR13-27 Multiplayer Bonanza
- MAR13-28 GW2: Guild Missions for March 2016
More information about those events will be provided on the Facebook Group event tab.
Make sure to fill out or request your information to be placed on our master game-contact document located: https://www.facebook.com/notes/toy-gamers-network/group-console-friend-list/1205312542813736
Contact information:- N3DS FC: 5000-5549-3233
- PSN: mrbeartoy88
- XBL/Win10: MrBearToy
- Steam: Master Saber
"Once a Toy, Always a Toy"
~ AdminBear - MAR12-26 Fire Emblem Fates: Group Castle Visit
August 15, 2015
- Spoiler:
- ~ Fall 2015 Newsletter! ~
Overview:- Current Status
- Coming Soon
- Expectations
2015 Division
Welcome Toygamers for another exciting newsletter! While I feel the forums have become neglected just a tad bit with the usage of other services (i.e Facebook & Twitter), It's great to continue to keep in touch with all of you here and promoting this wonderful community!
We currently play the following games:- InsanityFlyff, MagmaFlyff
- Guild Wars Trilogy
- Guild Wars 2
- PokeMMO
- Pokemon Showdown
- Minecraft (PC version)
- Skyforge Beta
- DOTA 2 (Steam version)
- AQW
& More
Coming Soon- PokeMMO PTS August 2015
- Rise of Punching Babies Sept 2015
- Heart of Thornes Release ~ Oct 2015
- Kingdom Hearts 3/ Fire Emblem Fates later updates
- Skyforge Launch Date
- Old & New Guild Events
- Basic Combat Training for Bear Nov 2015
& Much more!
Expectations- Forums have become laxed. Please review rules & continue to promote forums!
- If you are 18+ please apply at http://onepact.net/othergamesapp to access Teamspeak 3!
- I will leave to Army BCT this November and come back in around 8-9 months to continue with my ROTC program. Please listen well to our assigned division leaders & continue to make this place a safe haven for gamers of all ages!
"Once a Toy, Always a Toy"
Stay Sexy!
~ MrBearToy [Founder/Clan GM] - Current Status
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[MERGED] 2015-2021 Newsletters :: Comments
2018 Newsletter
Welcome back fellow toys for another seasonal newsletter!
First, I would like to request that all members join our discord server (https://discordapp.com/invite/WgTE8zj) that is ran by Admin Spot, myself & our leadership crew!
Read the 2018 spring newsletter:
- Spoiler:
Second, the following is a list of official games we in TGN play this year which does not include the game titles that our partners play:
PC: Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2; US Flyff Gold, Ignite FlyFF, Insanity FlyFF, and Bastion FlyFF; PokeMMO and PKMN UM/US; SWTOR
Steam: Creativerse, Adventure Quest 3D, Empyrion - Galactic Survival, and Age of Empires Games
Console-Cross-play: Minecraft (PC, PS4), Fire Emblem (Nintendo), DC Universe Online (PS4/PS3/PC), Destiny 2 (PS4/PC/XBL), Resident Evil Games (PS4) & more.
Browser: http://www.artix.com/games/- Adventure Quest Worlds (to create a guild, it requires legendary subscription)
- Adventure Quest 3D (guild feature not implemented yet)
Third, all of our TGN led clans now officially promote our discord server as the primary for the community! This provides more breathing space for our members to choose which individual community servers they want to be a part of through our [promotion] category. Here's a couple of updates:- The DC Universe Online Hero guild got its name changed to "Legion of Cookies." I also plan to rename the villain guild by sometime this summer.
- The Destiny 2's Legion of Cookies clan now promotes our TGN discord as primary and the motto has been changed to "Once a Cookie, always a Cookie."
- The PokeMMO clan also now promotes our TGN discord server on the guild info.
- I may go "Legend" by early August depending on how many players are interested in forming a guild on AQ Worlds! Guilds in AQW house a minimum of 15 players and slots are up-gradable by coins which can lead to a total of 50 players. It all depends on how many show support.
Fourth: Don't forget about the Guild Wars 2 - Blue Day for Autism event this Saturday, 3.31.2018 at 1600 ST !!!
This event will be hosted by AmyAbigail.9354 who is a Gamers Giving Back (GGB) Representative!!! (SEE YOU THERE!)
That's all I've got for y'all for now!~
Admin_Bear
"Once a Toy, Always a Toy"- Adventure Quest Worlds (to create a guild, it requires legendary subscription)
May 2, 2018 update:
- Spoiler:
At 3:43 PM Central USA; I learned that Amanda (Meika#6137) had the original SexyToys guild on her possession for the last ten years without my knowledge. (Before I continue with the announcement, I must first note that I created the g-mail account that was used to create the eflyff-game account where SexyTonkaToy was created. At that time, I was in an online relationship with Amanda and I allowed her to account share it which looking back was a total and utter mistake. When we had a relationship fallout, she took the account, changed password and had a large-6 month war with me over who got to keep the guild that I created on Tonka).
Thanks to the core-members, I was able to obtain the guild for one last time before Amanda's corrupt GM lover banned my account on the summer of 2009. Then he gave her the guild I created and the option to change her character name. It took about 12 years to forgive what she did to me. It wasn't until Fall 2009 that I would continue rebuilding in private servers and it wasn't until recently that I would return to Webzen to rebuild there.
Going back to the announcement. As soon as I found out, I politely asked Amanda if she would return the guild and she declined. She, after all, kicked everyone out and wants the guild "SexyToys" on Tanuki (previously Aibatt/Lawolf) to die with her character. Since I was fed up from her spiteful actions and there was absolutely nothing more I could do, I told her that she could keep it but owning a shell of a guild doesn't mean the community will provide her with special treatment. Although she was a co-founder for the guild on Tanuki, she will never be recognized as a leader and sadly her overall inaction speak volumes 12+ years later about who she is as a person.
Although the original guild will be marked as dead/inactive on Tanuki, the community plays in more places: https://toygamers.forumotion.com/t378-current-sexytoys-toysaurus-flyff-games#1281
As of May 3, 2018 all core-members have been notified about the above in a professional manner. Nothing is left out. 110% transparent. "Anyone can find the dirt in someone. Be the one that finds the gold." (Proverbs 11:27)
Amanda (Meika#6137) will not be barred from joining future guilds and events so long as she does not defame the community or our services. All of leadership will be on the lookout should she try to do so and will ban immediately since she, herself, should know better 12+ years later.
Until next time.
~ Bear
"Once a Toy, Always a Toy!"
November 04, 2018 update:
- Spoiler:
- On November 4, 2018: Now that Bear has obtained a PC version of Destiny 2; D2 Legion of Cookies clan will now promote and alternate all community discords once per three months. This way everyone gets a chance at recruiting. If it creates unbearable conflict, it will revert to TGN-only.
- On November 4, 2018: Now that Bear has obtained a PC version of Destiny 2; D2 Legion of Cookies clan will now promote and alternate all community discords once per three months. This way everyone gets a chance at recruiting. If it creates unbearable conflict, it will revert to TGN-only.
Time for the gloves to come off. Radio silence will finally be broken today and you shall find out what has led to the latest events.
Pact Partnership (8+ years) Real Talk on Drama. See Spoiler for details.
Disclaimer: The following describes a real situation with discord users who used kindergarten-level adult drama to affect my integrity for over 6 months. These chain of events climaxed to what is described below. Nothing false about events. View the screenshots. Make your own judgement.
By viewing the spoiler below, you do so acknowledging that there is pain found from both parties and that reporting to admin will not change nor remove either side of events.
So as you can see a big nuclear headache happened, all Pact's doing and likely will be Pact's end.
Here's what you can look forward to:
I know that it's more drama than exciting news but I have now reached my calm and nothing can stop us!
- Master Saber / Master Bear
"Once a Toy, Always a Toy"
[ added on 11/5/2021: I marked onepact.forumotion.net/.com for deletion.
This means the domain & web-forum are inaccessible to Pact. They'll just have to create their own. ]
Pact Partnership (8+ years) Real Talk on Drama. See Spoiler for details.
Disclaimer: The following describes a real situation with discord users who used kindergarten-level adult drama to affect my integrity for over 6 months. These chain of events climaxed to what is described below. Nothing false about events. View the screenshots. Make your own judgement.
By viewing the spoiler below, you do so acknowledging that there is pain found from both parties and that reporting to admin will not change nor remove either side of events.
- Spoiler:
Let's start here. There was nothing abnormal about the relationship in between communities until late spring of this year. I voted to promote Elewing (Heartsong#0067) to the position of admin about a year ago because she was an outstanding member at that time and came to offer a world of inclusion and further insight into disabilities. Elewing's flaw however is that she jumps on the attack and doesn't read beforehand so early last spring, I was falsely accused of sexually harassing her online when in reality there was nothing sexual about the conversation and she did not read my comments before providing a response in a multi-admin channel.
After facing her flaws multiple times, she often shamed the disability she supposedly had by using it as a crutch/excuse for her actions every time and always jumped with doubt on everything I posted thereafter. Essentially it gets to kindergarten-level drama where I am having to apologize where not needed and take the hit for the team.
Jaffa created a beautiful rainbow server icon and when I replaced it on the server with the addition of monthly awareness to the inclusion of all people of national sexual orientation as it was during LGBTQA+ month, 3 people (the final owner of pact included) decided to make insincere drama over it and blackmail that if the icon was not removed, they were all 3 going to leave Pact. So after that drama subsided, the icon was reverted and Pact was no longer a community of inclusion.
July 15, 2021: I see that a user of mine posted some intriguing song lyrics that sounded inappropriate so I asked leadership for help and my post, which was worded wrong, enabled both Jaffa and Elewing to launch attacks on me at a personal level. Never in my years of working with Pact, have I ever had this kind of communication with a partnered affiliate.
I decide to remove 2 very toxic threads of bullying with comments like "Saber you were never needed here, you're the reason everyone leaves, you're not wanted, we don't want you, your views are not welcomed, all you do is bring up leftist reasoning" over and over again. A normal person could have committed suicide with that kind of level of bullshit. So after deleting 2 entire threads and going well over 3 in the morning on the next weekday, I calmly asked both of them, who are Pact Community level admins on #officer-chat to respect and conclude such behavior. Instead of recognize that their behavior was out of control, they continue except this is the only time I do not delete and record Elewing stating in bold: "No one really respects you."
July 16, 2021: While I did not feel like harming myself, I felt lost after the following interaction. I then removed all of the bots tied to my discord account and prepared my leave from Pact. For the first time, the person who made Pact a home and developed all you saw within Pact discord, felt so unwanted and hurt that was prepared to leave with gears still running for the next person to pick up. After Friday's work, it took Elewing and the lot to realize that I was going to exit and they provided a lot of empty promises that their behavior would change (which looking back, they didn't hold any of those promises) in order for me not to leave.
I rebuild the entire server in Saturday of July 17, 2021. I voted for Jeni's (Jeni #6238) Pact admin promotion to provide more growth.
August 8, 2021: Elewing pushes for more changes that honestly were unnecessary to the server and instead of taking responsibility for those changes, wanted me to be the ONLY one doing them. Jaffa escalates this into unnecessary route and meaningful conversation is lost. By 5 in the morning of the next day, both DirtyChef (DirtyChef#2735) and I are left to damage control the situation which resulted in folks wanting to bypass the way we handled new ideas coming in and implementing them on the server.
So on August 8, 2021 at 5:04AM CST:- All polls related to server-wide changes except for @carl-bot (new game roles/channels) will wait until an admin formal meeting (priority) or received feedback from @community admin list: Dirty Chef, Master Saber, Jaffa, Elewing and PalyPrincess in #server_admin chat
- Chef will follow up with all com admin that have not answered. If all answered, then we implement/reject idea. This was agreed by both Master Saber and Dirty Chef. Dirty Chef confirmed at 5:11AM that this was a true statement.
18 days later, I delete my own messages from the back and forth drama caused by Elewing over an awareness issue that she could have handled as an admin. Hoping that my colleagues wouldn't go fishing and erase their posts all together, instead, the drama escalates even further and lasts for an entire 3 days up to 4am in the morning each day on voice.
Instead of provide me a fair chance to talk it out, Pact Owner Dirty Chef decides to instead demote me from Pact Tech Community Admin during my time of work at a middle school and when I came home, had the guts to do the following:
- Tell me in a righteous manner that I was useless/not wanted and that Chef was the only reason I was still in Pact more than a year.
- Server mute me on voice chat just so I can hear his disgusting yelling and verbal abuse because he didn't want to hear my side.
- Tell me that game officers that I appointed were going to replace me in Pact after an 8+ year partnership.
- Telling me that my hard work was going to be thrown away because Jeni and Elewing were going to take over channels I oversaw for many years.
- I would be removed from the group which was to scare/intimidate that everyone I brought over (all 1505 invites) would lose connection with me if not friended.
- Pact will spread their own narrative of events to the server that would have obviously have no purpose but to issue pain, confusion and harm to my TGN community.
This leads me to my first response: I created a channel with screenshots of the entire drama and deleted it within less than 5 hours. This channel was only accessible by my TGN game admins. Jeni basically reported it to Jaffa according to DirtyChef which tried to again use the opportunity to target the partnership and throw jabs to harm my credibility to my organization that he has no right over.
DirtyChef does the same things he accused the FIRST founder/owner of PACT, Zander, of doing and rushed to deal a gut punch of personal pain that would have been avoided had he stopped enabling the toxicity born from him and his other admins this year. I quietly tell my folks on the Pact server that I entered Pact hiatus and continue to promote UNTIL I find out that Jeni purposely within 18 hours leaves and takes 8 others with her to create a Pact Free Company/group in Final Fantasy XIV.
When I bring this up to Jeni, she tells me that she left because I changed the TGN-BAKE group motto which was TGN led and as the TGN founder/owner, it was improper for me to change my own guild motto? So as you read that preposterous line, I then inform Chef that this is yet another blow to the partnership and instead of handling it as someone concerned over the partner line, he goes and mocks the issue, telling me to do what leaders do and take action.
Putting aside the short issue, I prioritize the partnership and forgave Jeni for what she did in order to build something together with Pact EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE IN THE SERIOUS WRONG for sabotaging BAKE on FFXIV Siren.
August 27, 2021: Chef posted a false pretense of redemption and forces me to comply in order to "keep the peace" with pact or else he would have followed through with the above threats.
September 2, 2021: Pact admins have a meeting while DirtyChef is out dealing with a family covid emergency with his mother. Everyone in the Pact recorded meeting decides to throw jabs at me obvious to all involved to latest dramatic events and not care about being live and on the downloadable file. I post my meeting notes and restrain myself as much as I could to keep the calm.
I then issue OPERATION: PICCOLO to all destiny 2 users that I brought into Pact, and prioritized all operations on the TGN server. This includes, moving all financially tied servers (Rythm, Mee6, etc) to TGN and fully covering all bases there.
September 9, 2021: Pact admins go again on another distasteful and recorded meeting conversation. I left my input out of this one because why post something if they aren't interested to improve at this point?
September 16, 2021 (CST):
- Chef starts to show calm revaluation into the series of events at 1:51 AM.
- I post a picture of sticky notes that I respond kindly to the revaluation with hope that we were moving forward at 11:02 AM.
- Chef introduces more drama on Jeni's leave on FFXIV and reveals through screenshot that she lied to me and had no intention of working or building toward something positive on Siren. Enraged by this, Chef adds more oil to the fire by terminating the TGN-PACT partnership at 6:30 PM.
September 17, 2021: Destiny user arcanepiggy's posts were deleted by Chef at 1:53 AM in the Pact #bungiefps channel.
- TGN #drama channel becomes read-only and is enabled for all verified users to see this nuclear issue erupt. I continue to promote Creativerse worlds and SWTOR guilds regardless of the breakup as they belong to Paly, Pebbles, B0dybagged and Thomas which are also neutral affiliates to Pact.
- I give the green GO to leave all Pact services due to there not being a TGN-PACT partnership anymore IF they chose to.
September 18, 2021:
- at 2:33 AM, DirtyChef tries to poach all destiny 2 users recruited by TGN into their dead PACT clan.
- at 3:17 AM, SerRuesell takes on the mantel of brother partner guild to BAKE and provides his HD invite link which I, as the Destiny 2 leader, have always allowed to take place. SerRuesell cut all ties to Pact due to seeing DirtyChef poach members even after claiming he was not going to do so.
- at 3:46 AM, DirtyChef bans SerRuesell from the Pact discord server and removes his post.
Aftermath (What Pact lost):- Jeni, DirtyChef and Elewing lost all TGN discord roles & were given the Global @Muted role to suppress text & voice connection.
- Jeni, DirtyChef and Elewing were blocked on my discord account.
- I announced partnership breakup in Facebook page, Facebook group, Twitter and Reddit so that none of my guilds promote Pact in any of those social handles.
- I removed all Pact admins from the onepact.forumotion.net webforum that I created and maintained. The service will be perm disabled.
- I removed all Pact recruitment threads for every game that I hosted to promote Pact.
- All Pact World Admins in every TGN guild were temporarily demoted to re-assess and prevent future security sabotage.
- Pact lost the right to ask for help in anything they broke, continue to break within their server
Aftermath (The legacy I left behind in Pact):- All text/voice channels not toyed with by Pact leadership retain all the information and data in them.
- I deleted all of my cookie-tips from pact's server so they wouldn't steal content and claim it.
- All polls related to server-wide changes except for @carl-bot (new game roles/channels) will wait until an admin formal meeting (priority) or received feedback from @community admin list: Dirty Chef, Master Saber, Jaffa, Elewing and PalyPrincess in #server_admin chat
So as you can see a big nuclear headache happened, all Pact's doing and likely will be Pact's end.
Here's what you can look forward to:
- I will be prioritizing all energies to the TGN discord server
- Destiny 2 BAKE will obtain a 2nd guild in the coming weeks for more users to fill and enjoy
- and lastly we will be branching out to multiple clusters in Final Fantasy XIV!
I know that it's more drama than exciting news but I have now reached my calm and nothing can stop us!
- Master Saber / Master Bear
"Once a Toy, Always a Toy"
[ added on 11/5/2021: I marked onepact.forumotion.net/.com for deletion.
This means the domain & web-forum are inaccessible to Pact. They'll just have to create their own. ]
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