I'd say the -BS- chat was the best thing about being part of Black Shadows, like Daizan says I've certainly made a lot of good friends from it. Very fun environment.
I hope you guys carry on about how -BS- is going to fail... Because it's just like at the begging when everyone said it would fail and we proved you guys wrong. It never ceases to amuse me when someone yells at the my face how something will go wrong and I shouldn't be doing it, when everything just turns out fine.
No-one was ultimately wrong when they said BS would fail. Nor have they been conclusively proven right thus far. The question is rather how do you define failing. Is it through the ranking of the alliance? Obviously if this is the case then BS have clearly not failed. Is it through the reputation of the alliance? Once again, if this is the case then BS have clearly not failed. But if it is to do with the popularity of the alliance, then maybe they have.
The question is not an outright one. In some ways they have but in others, and dare I say most, they haven't.
Competently, if it was stated that BS would not be here for over a month then that would be wrong. But for them to have achieved this and then say there is no way they have or could possibly fail is absurd. Ultimately they will most likely fail in the future at one time or another, as will the majority of the other alliances currently present. After all, there can only be one winner. It is more a question of when or how, rather than if.
To say that all those who predicted for BS to fail were and are wrong is quite an obnoxious thing to do, as there is still a long way for them to go and they yet can still fail.
The future holds what the future holds, and inevitably some of these ambiguous predictions that currently seem to be false will be proven true. But the last laugh will go to the player/s that take their time to enjoy the game, rather than get involved in any of the ignorant feuds that go on outside of the game.