Army of the Dim Giant

Army of the Dim Giant
Leader	DimGiant
Empire	New Conglomerate
Server	Connery
Tags/Abbreviations	DGia
Website	DimGiant.com
Stats	Army of the Dim Giant Stats

The Army of the Dim Giant is a small group of friends. Their leader, DimGiant, was suffering from the combined neuroses of PTSD, untreated bi-polar, and aspergers, at the time of the group's founding. Using the community as a means of doctoring his internal wounds instead of seeking professional help, Dim caused a great deal of harm and sadness to others, especially those closest to him. By the time he fully grasped the nature and scope of his poor choices, and how they affected people he loved, it was too late to make amends, so he decided to amend his future choices.

The outfit once famed for zerging hundreds, was scaled back considerably to allow the NC on Connery server more breathing room for smaller outfit growth. Instead of large platoons of relatively low organization, there are now modest squads...of still relatively low organization; nevertheless, their core is now stimulated by companionship and genuine care for each other, rather than Dim's previously insatiable hunger for hollow externalities, and his pathological obsession with control.

In addition to changing his own choices, he removed a large number of people whose choices would influence him to return to his old ways, surrounding himself instead with if not good-hearted, at least a well-intentioned lot of misfits who find in each other what they cannot have alone.

They can still be found on weekdays at 7pm MST running their little groups, and welcome most anyone looking for a fun hour or two after a long day at work.

It was founded on December 12th, 2018, and will continue until the servers shut down.

Heavily truncated outfit historical periods:

12-12-2018 - 4/1/2019

DGia is formed and grows to an enormous number as the de facto leader DimGiant expands the group as quickly as possible, streaming the game 6-8 hours a day, six days a week. He forces himself into the community with the subtly of a premature nuclear explosion, and causes great deals of drama by attacking groups where he could easily harness the disdain of others to his own ends. He justifies his actions by saying he'll 'save planetside' by making big groups. The result is a breathtakingly massive, toxic, chaotic, and sometimes fun group of lunatics. Despite Dim's draconian methods for growth and general lack of social grace, he finds himself with a surprising number of positive associations in the likes of AdeltheQadi, Gotchakiddo, BubufromCN, Bwolei, UnadornedAxe, SpiritBear, Emiko, Xavic, Aidan, and others who gradually have a softening effect on him. They are foundational in establishing DGia as an occasionally cohesive force with a unified culture on the server. The Development team of Planetside 2 at the time also finds DGia and their leader amusing, and the producer gives Dim access to an observer camera to further his work on youtube videos related to the game. In April, the DX11 update drops and a huge population spike occurs, leading Dim to declare "Planetside Saved" and significantly scaling back streaming to focus on his own mental and physical health. Despite Dim's brazenly toxic behavior, he is never censured by the game development team and his 'work' goes on unabated. NLRStarShield does attempt to stage a Reddit Rally to ban the entire outfit of DGia when they refuse to follow his orders on command chat. However, due to NLR's own lack of social ability, the plan backfires completely, with the Connery Server reddit lampooning him, and DGia taunting him for months over it afterwards. He eventually deletes the thread.

4/1/2019 -4/1/2021

DGia grows at a significantly reduced pace in the absence of the daily 6-8 hour twitch streams, until it peaks at 1,200 active users. Eventually, the number of players listed causes external websites tracking outfit numbers to crash, and slows down the in-game outfit UI. DimGiant reduces the group by 1,000 inactive players and slightly eases the issue. Outfit wars are introduced and DGia, without meaning to, vanquishes their greatest adversary NLRStarShield and NWYT when DGia beats them handily in the qualifiers overnight. NLR sadly never returns to the game and NWYT is put out for good. AdeltheQadi, inspired by outfit wars, attempts to create DGia's first specialized group of infiltrators with mixed success. Dim experiences similar difficulty in forming an air corps. The 'Leetfit' is formed, making up DGia's best players, and actually starts having marginal impact during alerts when they're not up against skilled groups. During this time the developers Dim had befriended are fired because of Planetside Arena's failure. Dim, saddened and disheartened, and outraged at the poor managerial handling of the situation, forms the Planetside Project in the hopes of shoring up support for proliferating the game through advertising. Despite this initial goal never being achieved, the group ends up sharing assets and resources, becoming a small boone to the artistic community.

4/1/2021 - the present

Somehow, Dim ends up getting married to a Korean local in Utah, to the shock of everyone who knows him personally and his fundamental inability to read people. This twist leads to a drastic change in his self-care routine, which ripples into the nature of his outfit as well. He brings back the twitch stream on a *very* limited basis, infuses new life into the Planetside Project with higher stakes art competitions and free dogtags bearing the insignias of all four factions on Planetside 2. He finally learns the true value of Planetside in his life isn't the platoons he controls, or the effects he has on game development, but the men and women of DGia, whose compassion, mercy and kindness fundamentally alter his course forever: UnadornedAxe, Elrices, Jeffluke, Emiko, AdmiralMessina, Ausomerat, Gotchakiddo, Bwolei, LittleBunniefoofoo, TheRedKnight, Derremedor, EternalWarrior, DangDingo, CalamityStryker, Nora, Spachi, RyanMcgee, Omnimuu, Killinator, Capnode, Gristlemcthornbody, 420Grinder, Jonnyboy, Amaduel, CovieNC, Blaze, Pug.Inc, RemainNA <3 <3, Ahcer, Biorapture, OGbelus, Zalixz, NordiPi, Shalmalopa, Zazor Crim, Fishbone, ToastyMan, StarfighterNC, Mr Quacks, Disenfranchised, *ESPECIALLY* Selendah, and many more. DGia consists now of these men and women who are generally caring, compassionate, and have given up the philosophy of controlling things. Willing to power in love for others, with Planetside 2 as a pleasant, daily side note to better pursuits that make better men and women.

The outfit is open to all, provided general civility is maintained, and goodwill towards others.