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== Culture of Sapphire ==
== Culture of Sapphire ==


Since the whole Sapphire team talks to each other throughout the whole day, and virtually every day, a distinct, one might go as far as to say phenomenal, culture is developed known as the Circle culture. The Circle culture is influenced by many factors. The highest influence comes from the image board 4chan. The second highest influence comes from news board Reddit. The remaining influence is from random parts of the Internet, and a bit from the real life East Coast culture (all members that live in the United States are located near the East Coast). Sapphire has a ''filter'' of culture. Well respected and feared Head of Technology [[t3sla]] filters Internet culture and spreads what he thinks is best for the group. A big problem in Sapphire is the overuse of certain trends. t3sla is rather well at controlling this overflow. Nevertheless, each member has a part in the filter. But t3sla is the key person involved in it.
''WARNING: This section might be a little bit unreal, not serious, and possibly offensive''. Since the whole Sapphire team talks to each other throughout the whole day, and virtually every day, a distinct, one might go as far as to say phenomenal, culture is developed known as the Circle culture. The Circle culture is influenced by many factors. The highest influence comes from the image board 4chan. The second highest influence comes from news board Reddit. The remaining influence is from random parts of the Internet, and a bit from the real life East Coast culture (all members that live in the United States are located near the East Coast). Sapphire has a ''filter'' of culture. Well respected and feared Head of Technology [[t3sla]] filters Internet culture and spreads what he thinks is best for the group. A big problem in Sapphire is the overuse of certain trends. t3sla is rather well at controlling this overflow. Nevertheless, each member has a part in the filter. But t3sla is the key person involved in it.


=== Bad manner ===
=== Bad manner ===

Revision as of 07:27, 1 May 2013

Sapphire Development
IndustryInternet, eSport
GenreGaming
FoundedHollywood, FL, United States September 20, 2011 (2011-09-20)
Founder(s)
Headquarters
Hollywood, FL
,
United States
Key people
ProductsMedia
ServicesGame Servers, Tournaments
Number of employees
about 14
DivisionsDirty Players Gaming (dissolved)
Websitehttp://sapphiredev.org

Sapphire Development is a social organization associated heavily with gaming and the eSports movement. Sapphire does sponsorships, tournaments, public gaming servers, and game related media.

Founding of Sapphire

Sapphire started as a small project on a sandbox game called Minecraft. The original project name was “Redemption” and was a custom Minecraft client designed for personal use. The name evolved to Sapphire as they began a Texture Pack project to go along with the client. Diamonds were changed to Sapphires. Eventually, the second part of the name, “Development”, was adopted to signal that the group will expand into more projects and have “developers”. Sapphire today is composed of the group of friends that met on the Minecraft server in which Project Redemption started on. The main goal currently, is to travel and experiment around games, gaining or losing members.

Culture of Sapphire

WARNING: This section might be a little bit unreal, not serious, and possibly offensive. Since the whole Sapphire team talks to each other throughout the whole day, and virtually every day, a distinct, one might go as far as to say phenomenal, culture is developed known as the Circle culture. The Circle culture is influenced by many factors. The highest influence comes from the image board 4chan. The second highest influence comes from news board Reddit. The remaining influence is from random parts of the Internet, and a bit from the real life East Coast culture (all members that live in the United States are located near the East Coast). Sapphire has a filter of culture. Well respected and feared Head of Technology t3sla filters Internet culture and spreads what he thinks is best for the group. A big problem in Sapphire is the overuse of certain trends. t3sla is rather well at controlling this overflow. Nevertheless, each member has a part in the filter. But t3sla is the key person involved in it.

Bad manner

Within Sapphire, a concept of wrong exists. It's called bad manner and the term hails from StarCraft II and related games, thus obviously making it is a term t3sla picked up for the group. Bad manner is often abbreviated as BM. Most Sapphire facilities consider BM a hate offense and is punishable. Sapphire has odd methods of punishment within itself, however, nothing too cruel. At worst, a roast of someone where the entire group gets its revenge for the BM.

Funky's Law

Funky's Law of League of Legends states clearly that:

  • To play an AP character, you must build AD.

This law has caused conflict and unleashed massive amounts of BM within Sapphire due to the fact that it is encourage a troll build that most of the time might fail.

"Death"

Every time a member is gone for a while without notice, he is given mercy and is spared from an inactive status for a rather long time. In fact, this time is so long, that the Circle has given it the phrase "dying" and when the member returns "they have come back to life". Weyrt and Funky were the first thought to be dead. Later after their return, Mike and Creasingwolf became the deceased ones. Most recently, everyone has returned and is continuing normal life.

Departure of Duke

Caleb Duke, the previous Head of Community, has left Sapphire a total of three times. Initially, he made his first departure hoping to fool the whole group. It was such a long departure time wise that it was considered an actual leave. The second time was a rather legitimate departure because of the project he started known as Dirty Players Gaming. Duke, at this point, transitioned his hame from Slar3xSpr33 (commonly shortened as Slar pronounced SLEYUR) to DirtySpr33 or just Dirty. This group disbanded rather fast even after being picked up by Sapphire and sponsored. He returned due to the fact that he was bored. The final departure caused him to start his new and success group solely focused on him. He makes videos on YouTube and streams of Twitch. So far he has actually even streamed for Charity. He claims to have "a more successful life" without the group being in his way.

Swagfags

No offense to homosexuals. None was intended, anyway.

Swagfags are those who by definition who...

  • buy new shoes frequently.
  • play modern consoles.
  • use instagram and are males.
  • listen to rap music.
  • act like a pimp.
  • use swagfaggotric terminology.

If a person is experiencing any of these symptoms, he might be a swagfag. The only known swagfags ever to be in Sapphire are Jimmy and Caleb Duke.

Necking

When someone commits a mindless, unintelligent act, or says something unintelligent, a Sapphire member should feel obligated to correct them and proceed to get their "neck". Getting a neck is achieved by playing a flat palm on the other person's neck, and swiping it with a varying speed and force. When calling a neck, or getting necked, people have the option to...

  • call no nothing. Meaning a neck is theirs regardless of self-serve or any other call.
  • call self-serve. Giving a "baby" swipe to your neck with one finger to self serve and avoid the big thing.
  • call teleport/time travel into the past and self-serve.
  • call my big toe. Don't touch it.
  • claim false neck when a neck is truly unjustful. This results in a counter-neck.

Remember, no nothing overpowers all other calls. Brief history: necking originated in Southern Florida where Bryan, t3sla, and Jeremy all live.

mfw 2stronk4me

Another packet of terms brought by t3sla from (presumably) 4chan, are mainly 2stronk4me and mfw. 2stronk4me can be replaced in the following ways:

  • 2spooky5me
  • 10sexy1483me

While mfw means My Face When.. usually proceeded by an image on 4chan. According to Meme Expert Jeremy Plasencia, mfw also stands for mother f*cking win. He claims, ">mfw mfw can't stand for mother f&cking win". Mfw has been twisted into:

  • tfw, that feel when or that face when
  • my feel when

Staff of Sapphire

The Staff of Sapphire is the structure by which the members of Sapphire function.

It goes: Board of directors, officers, regular crew.

Board of Directors

The board of directors hold the highest position in all of Sapphire. They oversee all functions.

Moderators/Officers

The moderators do what the board tells them to do, and make sure everything is going according to protocol.

Regular Crew

The regular crew is composed of friends or friendly people associating or directly employed at Sapphire.

Retired Members

Retired members have chosen to leave Sapphire, or have been marked to be retired due to inactivity without warning. This is NOT to be confused with people who are expelled from all Sapphire facilities.

Mysterious Appearences

People whom Sapphire members have encountered and are considered saints.

Game Servers

One of Sapphire's main attractions is its game servers. Currently, all funds are paid by Chairman Bryan, and previously were paid by Vice-Chairman Fiska.

Minecraft

Minecraft is where Sapphire started. There is one Sapphire sponsored server available currently.

Sapphire's Tekkit Server - 174.48.154.154

  • Availability: Up by request.
  • Operator: Bryan

TeamSpeak3

TeamSpeak3 is a voice communication program that allows members of Sapphire to communicate daily. Customers, window shoppers, and totally random people are invited!

Sapphire's TeamSpeak3 - ta01.gameservers.com:9241

Tournaments

Sapphire hosts tournaments, though, not all for a prize pool. Some are purely for fun and/or recognition.

Pool Tournamenets

Pool Tournaments are hosted once per month, and the current Prize is an award-recognition. Actual prizes might be sponsored soon. Pool is played on famous mini-game network OMGPOP.

Winners

Yu-Gi-Oh! Tournaments

Dueling Network tournaments will now be hosted aswell, for similar prizes as to the Pool tournament. It will NOT be on a strict schedule.

Winners

  • Starting soon - 1st Place May 2013

Media

Sapphire has a huge part in Internet Media. Some members of Sapphire each have solo or partnered projects on YouTube. This allows for a more diverse source of income and reference to Sapphire. The rest of the members either work for a person with the channel or the main Sapphire network itself.

YouTube

Sapphire Related Series

Series directly related to Sapphire that are on YouTube.

The Circle Podcast

The Circle Podcast is a series of random recordings by Bryan. It is focused on capturing the most glorious or dark moments of the Circle (see Culture of Sapphire). It can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXY6arTSaHgpe0V01AGUuLj8DkUxXaTjM

Animation Adventures

A series of random recordings by Funky that are accompanied by an animation of sorts. Very similar to the Circle Podcast. It can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNcy0_vjSCN8LOfLIrxtwPBnGc81yst1F

Facebook

Sapphire has a facebook: http://facebook.com/sapphiredev

Twitter

Sapphire has a twitter: http://twitter.com/sapphiredev

Game Experimentation

Game experimentation is something Sapphire does for two major reasons: getting more members, and aiding the Media department by passing on reviews of games. Through game experimentation, some members were picked up, and many Media posts were created.

Games discovered during game experimentation

  • League of Legends
  • Civilization V
  • ARMA 2 & 3
  • DAYZ ARMA 2 MOD
  • many others...
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