The Legend of Tom Dinkle

[ThesoldierLLJK]

Gather around children,

For let me tell you a story of the greatest Commanding Officer the Almayer has ever had the honor of knowing.

Tom Dorkl...I mean Commander Tom Dinkle. A young man cut down in his prime, and who has vanished to parts unknown.

The Anti-Bill Carson, this little guy would cheer his marines on, and get into so many adventures as a Commanding Officer to the point that his exploits would be remembered for future generations.

Times such as

-Using the Synth Alicia to locate the Predators, and convince them to let him come up to their ship. Eventually the little guy would don Gladiator armour, and bested a Predator in a duel. These action solidified peace between Human and Predator to the point that a great combined victory was won by both species against the Xenos

-Redesigning a new medical bay on Solaris Ridge using high explosives, CAS, and OB strikes

-Sending one squad down at the start of a round which landed on top of a bunch of unprepared xenos, leading to their eventual massacre

-Handing out medals with descriptions that rivaled citations to real war heroes, if you got a medal from him it was an honor

-Beating the xenos back numerous times during ship invasions by raising morale.

-Reassuring everyone nothing was wrong as a queen was ripping his head off


Tom Dinkle wherever you are, we salute you, and miss you

Godspeed o7

[simonset55]

For real, he was the best commander. Tom Dinkle knew how to RP in a good way.

[Sleepy Retard]

okay.

[BobatNight]

Imagine being such a lowlife you drive away players that make the same tired ass Rp scenario fun. God bless this community

[Enigmachine]

Imagine being such a lowlife you drive away players that make the same tired ass Rp scenario fun.

Basically :/

They really went ham on him. Only Bryce Logue has gotten a shorter shit-stick. At least, that I know of.

[ThesoldierLLJK]

Imagine being such a lowlife you drive away players that make the same tired ass Rp scenario fun. God bless this community

Sad part is he wasn't gonna be removed, he was literally told just to stop all the meme medals, no one else had a problem with his unorthodox tactics
Tom Dinkle come back.

They really went ham on him. Only Bryce Logue has gotten a shorter shit-stick. At least, that I know of.

Not to derail, but during the report, Bryce was told multiple times not to do what he was doing by multiple COs and members of the CO council, and he chose to keep doing it regardless.

[Pulse Demon]

Imagine being such a lowlife you drive away players that make the same tired ass Rp scenario fun. God bless this community

Explain

[Survivor]

I actually fucking liked the guy. Me and him would talk in PMs a bit. Sadly, he blocked me (Edit: I was wrong here.) and probably everyone else he contacted before he left. I'll see if I can contact him, though. I miss him.





Edit: I've spoken to Dinkle. The legend himself may return soon

[Enigmachine]

Explain

Educate thyself.

Yeah it's too bad, Survivor, that he took everything so poorly. I can't really blame him much.

[Sakuyoi]

Hes still part of the CO whitelist right? he just quit?
Feels bad really. I miss the guy and his fucking tactics which are considered "LRP" because marines arent used to it.

[Survivor]

Hes still part of the CO whitelist right? he just quit?
Feels bad really. I miss the guy and his fucking tactics which are considered "LRP" because marines arent used to it.

He is still part of the CO whitelist. He was a great CO in my eyes.

[Survivor]

Explain

So basically, he was this really good and funny CO who's gimmick was about keeping morale as high as possible, even in the shittiest of situations. Apparently, though, you can't have fun in CM, especially as CO. People cried about him for stupid reasons.


Eventually, there was a report on him. Most of the report was absolutely ridiculous, however there were 2 parts about it that were slightly true. He exaggerated in his medals, and he made starcraft references or something (I really don't know). CO's jumped on the bandwagon against him in the discord. Having a large portion of the community against you at once is really stressful, sometimes. He took it that no body wanted him to be part of said community and left the very same day.


Some say he over reacted, but they have to understand that reports, the warning he got, and everyone wailing on him was a lot to take. He was a cool dude, and I hope he returns.

[BobatNight]

Unfortunately there's some snakes in the CO whitelist who will jump on everything they don't agree with, or maybe they were jealous nobody cared for their CO styles.

I can't fault him for leaving when you have some mouth breathers trying to dictate how you play.

God speed Dinkle, everytime I see a shooting star I think of you. <3333

[ThesoldierLLJK]

He came back today
Not the hero we deserve, but the hero we need.

[KennyTGuy]

I hope I get to play under his command all the COs ive played under so far have been by the book or leaning toward cruel, except pirate guy but he did ask me to make him a baseball bat so idk, oh and Spanelli.

[David Stormwell]

He really was Pretty good at what he did, Instead of sending Command staff down he would go down himself, A person for the People, Such A person made morale come back up in the Darkest of times.

The person we Need but don't deserve, While Carson is the opposite

[nekcy]

Not the hero we deserve, but the hero we need.

[Enigmachine]

So basically, he was this really good and funny CO who's gimmick was about keeping morale as high as possible, even in the shittiest of situations. Apparently, though, you can't have fun in CM, especially as CO. People cried about him for stupid reasons.


Eventually, there was a report on him. Most of the report was absolutely ridiculous, however there were 2 parts about it that were slightly true. He exaggerated in his medals, and he made starcraft references or something (I really don't know). CO's jumped on the bandwagon against him in the discord. Having a large portion of the community against you at once is really stressful, sometimes. He took it that no body wanted him to be part of said community and left the very same day.

He went over the top on his medals for sure, but the faction that jumped him made a huge deal of it.

Which totally ignores the fact that he dumped a ton of effort into them. I was there that round he got reported for. I've never seen that many medals with that much detail put into them. He got accused of being a win-focused type of guy in the report based on an offhand remark he made about winning. I just didn't see him act that attitude out, and don't see how he could've had time to min/max heavily with how much he sank into RP.

[Grimreaperx15]

I feel this is appropriate, considering he's back.

https://youtu.be/1pN8TvupNn4

[Mann handle]

He went over the top on his medals for sure, but the faction that jumped him made a huge deal of it.

Which totally ignores the fact that he dumped a ton of effort into them. I was there that round he got reported for. I've never seen that many medals with that much detail put into them. He got accused of being a win-focused type of guy in the report based on an offhand remark he made about winning. I just didn't see him act that attitude out, and don't see how he could've had time to min/max heavily with how much he sank into RP.

What's with the mentality of winning being bad anyway? Both sides should be aiming for the win, the challenge should be in making that win FUN rather than RPing to an excess that commanders drop the operation just for the sweet sweet arrr pee. Flattening the medical center like you saw in that report is something you rarely see and was a complete change from the normal. An interesting tactic as well, if anything it encourages an evolution in tactics on both sides.

His meme medals were funny and well detailed but LRP along with the starcraft nonsense but hardly an issue in my eye. I think part of the issue lies in that people don't want another 'carson commander'.
Anyway, I saw dinkle last night and watched him win round after round. He's surely the commander we need, whether we deserve it is another question.

[Awesomesauce935]

Big Man Dinkle sighted as Captain of the Almayer on an Ice round as i'm posting.

[Survivor]

Update: 0 regrets that I got him to come back. My favorite CO, sitting with Billy Williams.

[tobinerd]

He's one of the coolest commanders I've seen. I've seen him a bit around recently. I will never forget that round with Solaris Ridge Medbay Renovation.

You should add, that he's the legend of last stands. As he a few days ago, won two Almayer last stands in a row.

[KeyWii]

Frenk was better.

Never forget.