I just remembered an amusing story that I'd like to share, and see if maybe someone else here was witness to it. It's not really a bitch, but it has to do with someone being a dickwad, so it seems appropriate to this thread.

Years ago, it might've been in the Old Guild, a new user showed up in the arena section. Literally new: his account was made that day and he had zero posts to his name. He starts a thread in the arena section, asking who the best combat writers on the site are. He then talks about how, if the best writers come forward and prove themselves, he "might consider taking them under his wing". I'm pretty sure he said that word for word.

Let that sink in for a second. Not only did he deem himself so skilled that only the best writers on RPG are just barely qualified to become his apprentice, but he also assumed that we would take his word for this unquestioningly. Of a random nobody who made no attempt to introduce himself. If he'd started with something like "I've been roleplaying for 40 years and consider myself a master", then... he'd still be a tool, but at least he'd be giving us some reason to take him seriously.

Needless to say, the arena regulars chewed him up, in part by calling him out on the fact that someone's writing skill isn't easily ranked. After all, he didn't even make clear whether he was looking for the people who write the best scenes, or the ones who win most often. He never responded to any of them. The act of not being immediately accepted as the genius he claimed to be caused him to disappear into the void as quickly as he’d come.

Or well, he’d made one other post on some ongoing arena battle before the shitstorm shooed him away, saying something like “Interesting. I will be watching this thread.” I’m sure that in his head he sounded very mysterious and intimidating.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the story of perhaps the biggest tool that Roleplayerguild has ever witnessed. (I kinda hope someone can top it though.)