Hello,
I’m retiring. Yes, I, Klug1234, am announcing my retirement from the Army of Club Penguin.
Why? I simply don’t feel like I can (or want to) contribute to this army anymore. Let’s face it; I wasn’t a very good third in command. I’m not active in the ways that armies like ACP consider standard for activeness. I wasn’t the most approachable owner, people tended not to listen me if I was leading battles, and apparently, people just did not want be to be third in command. The only thing that got me by was my intelligence. I’m always going to credit myself as being one of the most intelligent people in warfare, and if you disagree with me on that, you can have an intelligent debate with me about it.
I suppose that I’ve been considering retirement for a few weeks now. You know, when someone like Shab publicly endorses your demotion, it doesn’t exactly make you want to stick around. Every time the thought of retiring popped into my head, I dismissed it, thinking that I would stay for a bit longer and see where that got me. Well, I did, and it got me demoted.
Now, let me set something straight: I’m not retiring because I was demoted. I’m not about to rage quit because my position as an owner was taken away from me. That’s not true, and I don’t want to hear about people saying that or thinking that. Yes, my demotion at the hands of Kenneth, Flipper, and Shaboomboom is indeed what finally provoked me to retire, but I’m not retiring because I was demoted. In fact, I’m retiring for essentially the same reason I retired my first time through in ACP.
I suppose the reason for my retirement could stem back to the single reason why I rejoined this army in August of this summer. This was a plain and simple reason, my friends: I wanted to be leader. Ah, yes. The glorious Supreme Commander position of the Army of Club Penguin. I once believed that I could become leader, but when I originally retired sometime in September 2010, I had dismayed my beliefs and realized that they would not come true. However, when I rejoined this army in the summer, I was in a different state of mind. I intended on becoming an owner and hopefully being a possible leader candidate when Flipper and Kenneth retired. I will admit, I did not expect them to still be leader today. Yeah, I actually believed that I could be the leader of this army. I still do think I could be, under the right circumstances, but that’s a discussion for a different time.
However, this was not to be. As you all know, Shaboomboom has an ongoing, well publicized disagreement with Kenneth and Flipper. This is all about how Kenneth and Flipper are running the army-Shab doesn’t agree. Frankly, I’m not happy with either side. I’m completely against retired leaders trying to force the current leaders to bend to their will, and I always have been. At the same time, I can’t say I agree on how Kenneth and Flipper operate anymore. This sort of stuff between retired leaders and current ones has been going on forever, but I have never seen anything as disgusting as how public this has become. There is a difference between being an advisor and making these sort of demands. Advisor is hardly a real position, it’s more of an honorary thing. The leaders aren’t required to listen to their advisors, or even give their “advice” any thought for that matter.
The first casualty of the Shaboomboom/Flen conflict was Stew20. His demotion was unpopular among the general public of the army, and he’s been given one, now another, chance to be third in command again. Honestly, I see my demotion as strikingly similar to Stew’s, and nobody’s really said anything to make me feel otherwise. How Kenneth and Flipper think that they are denying Shab’s demands by demoting me, I don’t know. I suppose it matters not.
(Shab: I’m sorry Klug, I hate editing retirement posts, but I promise, I can assure you, I had no hand in Stew’s demotion)
After my demotion, I voluntarily logged on to chat to be de-ownered by Flipper. I don’t believe one active member of the Army of Club Penguin has expressed any sort of condolences towards my demotion. This tells me that I am not wanted by this army, so why bother staying? I’m honestly not happy with the direction our leaders are taking it, and I’m not about to sit here and watch us make more mistakes. I just don’t want to do it. Being a moderator isn’t really what I want to do either. I’m by no means an arrogant person. I’m not saying I deserve something more than moderator, but when you get demoted out of the owner zone, it’s hard to get back, and I don’t have the time or the drive to get back up there.
I’m not much of a leader. I’m a thinker. I always have been and I always will be. Problem is, thinkers don’t really have a place in armies. There’s room for soldiers and there’s room for leaders. I hold no grudges against anyone in this army or any army. I spent three years of my life involved with the Army of Club Penguin, and I may finally say that I’m done here. Sure, I might visit chat from time to time, but don’t expect me on too often. I wasn’t really around much when I was in ACP, so.. yeah.
Whenever my demotion has been discussed on a post on the site, it will say “Klug was demoted for inactivity amongst other reasons…”
Uhh, what? Amongst other reasons? I haven’t been told these “other reasons”. Actually, Kenneth hasn’t spoken to me since before I was demoted and Flipper only spoke to me once about it. You guys can all stop playing the “other reasons” card, because as far as I know, those “other reasons” are “Shab wanted him demoted”. It doesn’t really matter, but I don’t like that it’s being put under such vague terms. “Other reasons” could mean anything. I could have been plotting a coup against Flipper and Kenneth. I could have broken every rule on chat three billion times. I could have joined the Light Troops (we all know that would never happen). All I’m saying is that I don’t understand why my demotion is being described with such vague, dismissive, and mysterious terms.
Usually, with retirement posts, there’s a long section dedicated to all the good ol’ friends you made here at the Army of Club Penguin Incorporated, all rights reserved. I’m not going to do that, but I guess I’ll write a message to the few people that I feel need a message.
Kenneth and Flipper- All of my feelings towards you two for my demotion and the way you lead this army have been expressed above. Don’t get me wrong, I like both of you as people. I just don’t see why I can’t get a decent reason for my demotion. The closest thing to that was Flipper telling me that I’m “not what we’re looking for”. Eh, whatever. Nothing I can do about it. Anyway, good luck with leading this army for however much longer you lead for. You’re almost hitting one year, which I do think is of a ridiculous amount of time for anyone to lead an army, but that is both of yours decisions, not mine.
Shaboomboom- You’ve always been an interesting person to interact with. Next time you’re going to demand that the leaders do things you want them to do, either rejoin the army or don’t make it so public. I never liked the arguing that went on between retired leaders and current leaders on the private posts on the site, and I do not believe in publicly fighting with them on the website any more than I do with letting retired leaders have so much influence.
Foxtails- By far, you are the greatest friend I ever made through armies. You’re the only person I would be willing to communicate with outside of xat chats. Thanks for being a great friend, and I look forward to being friends with you in the future.
Capncook- I have no clue why you rejoined, my other version of myself, but I will never forget our endless rants about everything we didn’t like about armies in PC. Long live Capncook, former ACP leader (I bet this sentence gets removed)
Kingfunks4- Congratulations on getting my spot as 3ic. You’re definitely capable of it. My only problem with it is that people are surely to cry foul that the face of CPAC is an ACP third in command, but, y’know, h@t3rz gonna h@t3. Good luck in the world of ownership, it’s a scary place sometimes.
The Light Troops- I guess I don’t hate all of you. After all, I’ve never spoken to most of the people in the Light Troops. I do, however, find your leaders annoying. Especially Blizzard880 or whatever your name is. Don’t ever think about rejoining ACP, because it doesn’t need people like you. You’re one of the most unloyal little text bubbles I’ve ever encountered around here. Also, I don’t like bmarocks116. Please, stop starting fights with everyone on CPAC, because your arguments typically go from “wow, he’s close to actually making sense” to “never mind, he has no idea..”
People that hate on CPAC for being “biased” towards ACP- If you’re sick of CPAC being “biased” and “running” armies, you have two options. Make your own news site and become better than CPAC, or join CPAC and eventually become the head of it. Then you can do whatever you want. But, no, you wouldn’t do that because it’s easier to just complain and insult everyone that doesn’t 100% agree with you. Just wondering, could any of you even tell me what the word “faggot” means?
That was a lot more people than I thought it would be. I didn’t mean for this post to get so long…but it did. Whoopsies. Anyway, adios, ACP. I’ll be on chat sometimes, but the chances of me ever rejoining are slim to none. Con queso.
~Klug
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Bye klug….i’m gonna really miss you, have a nice life.
♥♥♥♥
Good luck man. And I totally agree with your part with Bliz-face 😀
Klug, I am sorry to see you go. I cannot argue that you are one of the most intelligent.
I hope you understand, my support in demoting you was not due to your lack of ability but rather the lack of progress seen right from the start.
Do you think that had I not said anything that it would have been better for you to stay as 3ic for a while due to Flipper & Ken’s slowness to demote the inactive? Do you think that your output was that of a leader or 3ic or that you were still deserving of such?
As I edited, I had nothing to do with Stew. I still don’t know why he was demoted and I have no idea why mentioning his name once, off topic to the rest of the convo, that caused his demotion weeks later.
I tried to advise in public, but 0 progress was seen. Flen agreed that changes had to be made but in the end, none were. No work was even put forth which prompted me to act in a public way which finally go their attention.
I have to agree, 1 year is way too long for the same leaders to be running the show. The army needs a new hand guiding it, a new perspective.
There’s no hard feelings, I can understand why people would want me demoted. I just didn’t particularly like how public everything became.
NOOOOOOOOO!
Everyone is going to miss you klug.Im Very sad because of you retiring!~Levandoski ACP Staff Sergreant
Klug D:
Later Klug. 🙁
Bye Klug. I’ve seen you comment on enemy/CPAC posts with intelligent stuff before. Have a nice life D:
Klug i’ve known you for a while, never good friends, but aquiantiances (i can’t spell for my life). Its sad to see you go but good luck in life and I hope you will thrive and your dreams will take you far. <3
i think that over the past few weeks you have been busy with other things, and at the same time just dont wanna go on ACP with your reasons stated above, so when you finally came aback on the site you saw that you were demoted, and thatput you over the edge. good luck in all you do dude. pce out klug.
Bye Klug its sad to see you retiring. I’ll miss you and best of luck in life. Peace out.
Bye Klug
Bye Klug, you were a great leader and a good poster but as you said when it came to being active you were a tad short. But nonetheless I was proud to be led by you and I think if you were slightly more active you would have been a great leader. Even though we rarely talked, I will still miss you.
ahahaha from the first word to the last, you had me laughing the entire time, Klug, because I am a sick sick person and I laugh at these things. You are undoubtedly the best friend I’ve made here (not counting Freddy, since I don’t think you’re supposed to go down on your friends — but Klug, hey, if you’re cool with that….) and you have this incredible ability to make me feel like the most spectacular person in the world in just three sentences, and I’m proud to be the person who stuck by you when you felt others weren’t.
I do think you have a point about being a thinker and such, and how your intelligence was what you were riding on, because people don’t like to listen to thinkers (Socrates, anyone?). I seem to be a half-breed of thinker and do-er, and in the end people didn’t want to listen to me either, because my plans were always either quiet and planned-out but never done, or tossed away in exchange for “GET ME OAGAL, STAT. I NEED AN ADMIN. I’M IMPEACHING HIS ASS, NOW.”
I feel like you and I retired for much the same reasons, except you were demoted and I wasn’t promoted, and that action or inaction was the final straw. I commend you on your ability to make a retirement post that actually says something instead of my mindless ranting, and you’ve said everything I should have said.
On the topic of your demotion. While I, in my neverending efforts to be unbiased, do see reason for you to be demoted due to your inactivity (which of course was not your fault — lord, I know how hard being in high school is, and you seem to actually be trying to get A’s and B’s, something I sacrificed many a time for ACP.) However, the way you were demoted disgusted me to the point where I was just lying in wait for Flipper to log on chat so I could PC him and say, “Demotion 101: How To Demote a Human Being”, continuing on to relate his demotion of you to Nono and Meat’s demotions of me (neither was pretty and both left me brooding for weeks), and how at least Meat had the decency to say a word to me. Of course, I can say whatever I want here, because as Flipper didn’t respect me enough to read my retirement post, my final words to his army, my final words to him, surely he doesn’t have enough respect for me to read a comment on your retirement post (in a day or two, ask him if he’s read it.)
As for your opinion on Shab, I see what you’re saying, how he’s messing with the leaders. I’m sure if I was on the receiving end of his “criticism,” I suppose you could call it? I’m sure if he were against me, I’d want him gone. And by god, once upon a time in this army, I got what I wanted. But I was raised in a very different environment that everyone else was – I’m Shab and Boomer’s adopted child. Their interfering (I like to call it “influence”, but whatever) always helped me, so I can’t bring myself to dislike them or what they do. It’s not really helping me now, but I’m used to “SHAB AND BOOMER ALL THE WAY, LISTEN TO THEM OR DIE” and frankly, because Shab is more intelligent than either of the current leaders (we have two leaders and they still suck! Wasn’t the point of two leaders that maybe, one of them might not suck???) I’m still supporting him. Also, because I am shockingly ignorant of what he does.
Anyway, my brain’s getting all foggy like it does when it starts to shut down, as it always does when I’m writing retirement-related things. Bah, stupid brain. I’ll end here, before this comment turns into a new post altogether. Just one final message…
KENNETH1000 AND FLIPPERWHATEVER- THIS IS WHEN THE BELLS GO OFF. YOU TWO ARE NOT HELPING US. IF YOU REALLY CARE ABOUT THE ARMY OF CLUB PENGUIN, RETIRE NOW, WHILE YOU STILL CAN.
I will always love you (I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I don’t know why I had to do that, but I had to)
~~~Foxtails~~~
AND IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
IIIIIIIIII WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
lmao okay okay I’m done
“I wanted to end the feud between the two sides, but I couldn’t have helped launching at this comment. Especially the end. And since when were you us?”
– Flen
Anyways Klug, I didn’t see you much after you were gone, although I was on for at least 2-3 hours every weekday. But there is no doubt the you are probably the smartest retired person around here. Good luck with whatever you are doing. 😀
As my boyfriend can inform you, Ken, it’s unwise to laugh at me, or, in your words, “launch” at me. (I assumed you meant “laugh.” Perhaps I’m wrong and you launched missiles at my comment. Mreh.) Laughing at me is exactly what got you into this situation in my eyes, because you endlessly refuse to listen to me because — why?
Also, if you wish to say your goodbyes to Klug, please do it on your own comment’s space, not mine. If you wish to mock me, keep it to yourself.
I’ll see you in myself Klug. 🙂 I will never forget you, EVER, I promise, and if I do, you can slap me in the face personally. 😀
At least visit us sometimes klug! You rock!
Sad too see you go klug 🙁
Klug I’m truly sorry to see you go. I knew this was coming from the day you were demoted. You are truly one of the best minds to ever be in ACP and the army community.
Good luck in life bud.
Ze Toilet.
For some reason I knew this was going to happen sooner or later. I don’t have much to say except, thank you. You were a great influence as I was going up the ranks. I’m extremely envy your intelligence. If you were given the chance as ACP leader I’m sure you’d do a great job. You definetly helped shape the way of ACP, and other armies (at least you voiced your opinion well on CPAC.) I hope to see you on chat. We never talked much, but we talked when it counted, and we had fun when talking. I’ll keep my promise to you– if you even remember it.
Awwww, i was actually mentioned in a retirement post xD
Goodbye old friend
goodbye Klen 🙁 another thing this is so long