The insider perspective

Sometimes I wonder why I stay on Hidden Realms.

I think the answer is that I like the setting. Brian's told me that he has no interest in the OOC community there, and I'm starting to think he may be right to keep himself uninvolved.

I don't trust the character application mods because they do only a fraction of the posting in that forum, and several times as much griping about how hard it is. I don't trust new members because they're not expected to do anything but what's been done a thousand times, and all think they're the best yet. I don't trust the staffers there because everything I say and do is reported back to the staff forum to evaluate the danger I pose. I don't trust the non-staff elite because they can do whatever they please while us "rabblerousers" can't cough without being asked why we did it and what we meant by it.

So who does that leave? It leaves me and what I'm writing in the setting with the people I referred because I've already verified that they're distinctive and decent individuals. I'll interact with other people IC, but at this point they've mostly become kind of an RP resource. They're not people to me because they have little to nothing to offer me as people. They offer me paranoia, double standards, and half have nothing to distinguish them as individuals beyond that typical internet drive to be the weirdest.

They say that people who like sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made. I think the same saying applies to the building of a community. The more you know about what and whom it's based on, the less worthy it really seems. Best to stay for a year and move on before the luster dims and you really start to see what's going on.

The insider perspective

Sometimes I wonder why I stay on Hidden Realms.

I think the answer is that I like the setting. Brian's told me that he has no interest in the OOC community there, and I'm starting to think he may be right to keep himself uninvolved.

I don't trust the character application mods because they do only a fraction of the posting in that forum, and several times as much griping about how hard it is. I don't trust new members because they're not expected to do anything but what's been done a thousand times, and all think they're the best yet. I don't trust the staffers there because everything I say and do is reported back to the staff forum to evaluate the danger I pose. I don't trust the non-staff elite because they can do whatever they please while us "rabblerousers" can't cough without being asked why we did it and what we meant by it.

So who does that leave? It leaves me and what I'm writing in the setting with the people I referred because I've already verified that they're distinctive and decent individuals. I'll interact with other people IC, but at this point they've mostly become kind of an RP resource. They're not people to me because they have little to nothing to offer me as people. They offer me paranoia, double standards, and half have nothing to distinguish them as individuals beyond that typical internet drive to be the weirdest.

They say that people who like sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made. I think the same saying applies to the building of a community. The more you know about what and whom it's based on, the less worthy it really seems. Best to stay for a year and move on before the luster dims and you really start to see what's going on.

The insider perspective

Sometimes I wonder why I stay on Hidden Realms.

I think the answer is that I like the setting. Brian's told me that he has no interest in the OOC community there, and I'm starting to think he may be right to keep himself uninvolved.

I don't trust the character application mods because they do only a fraction of the posting in that forum, and several times as much griping about how hard it is. I don't trust new members because they're not expected to do anything but what's been done a thousand times, and all think they're the best yet. I don't trust the staffers there because everything I say and do is reported back to the staff forum to evaluate the danger I pose. I don't trust the non-staff elite because they can do whatever they please while us "rabblerousers" can't cough without being asked why we did it and what we meant by it.

So who does that leave? It leaves me and what I'm writing in the setting with the people I referred because I've already verified that they're distinctive and decent individuals. I'll interact with other people IC, but at this point they've mostly become kind of an RP resource. They're not people to me because they have little to nothing to offer me as people. They offer me paranoia, double standards, and half have nothing to distinguish them as individuals beyond that typical internet drive to be the weirdest.

They say that people who like sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made. I think the same saying applies to the building of a community. The more you know about what and whom it's based on, the less worthy it really seems. Best to stay for a year and move on before the luster dims and you really start to see what's going on.

Okay. I gotta say.

John Edwards kind of won the Colbert Report. Sir, I award you six and a half internets.

Okay. I gotta say.

John Edwards kind of won the Colbert Report. Sir, I award you six and a half internets.

Okay. I gotta say.

John Edwards kind of won the Colbert Report. Sir, I award you six and a half internets.

Hey Howard Dean!

Just sent a message that is ostensibly to Howard Dean. Here's what I told him (or whichever aide ends up reading my message).

We have a candidate who is ahead in delegates, ahead in state contests won, and ahead in the popular vote. Sen. Clinton does have every right to stay in the race, but she does not have the right to claim that it's for the good of the Democratic party. Take a look at Sen. Clinton's website. She's doing so poorly that she doesn't even list any of her election standings on her front page. Or anywhere that I could find. Campaigns can be forgiven for hiding a lot of things, but hiding the reality of her standings from her own promoters?

McCain cannot be beaten on toughness or experience by anyone in this campaign, because nothing they can say will compete with a "When I was in Vietnam..." story. End of line. He can be beaten on the wisdom of his policies, on his disdain for huge sweeping demographics in this country. The only person running who can defeat him on that territory is Senator Obama, and the votes are showing it. When will the Democratic party figure that out?

Share your thoughts, too.

As far as I'm concerned, this is all there is to it. Clinton, as of tonight, is listing her Pennsylvania win as a turn in the tide. She's depending on this one state to stay in a race that she cannot win. Huckabee didn't even take this long to learn his lesson.

Hey Howard Dean!

Just sent a message that is ostensibly to Howard Dean. Here's what I told him (or whichever aide ends up reading my message).

We have a candidate who is ahead in delegates, ahead in state contests won, and ahead in the popular vote. Sen. Clinton does have every right to stay in the race, but she does not have the right to claim that it's for the good of the Democratic party. Take a look at Sen. Clinton's website. She's doing so poorly that she doesn't even list any of her election standings on her front page. Or anywhere that I could find. Campaigns can be forgiven for hiding a lot of things, but hiding the reality of her standings from her own promoters?

McCain cannot be beaten on toughness or experience by anyone in this campaign, because nothing they can say will compete with a "When I was in Vietnam..." story. End of line. He can be beaten on the wisdom of his policies, on his disdain for huge sweeping demographics in this country. The only person running who can defeat him on that territory is Senator Obama, and the votes are showing it. When will the Democratic party figure that out?

Share your thoughts, too.

As far as I'm concerned, this is all there is to it. Clinton, as of tonight, is listing her Pennsylvania win as a turn in the tide. She's depending on this one state to stay in a race that she cannot win. Huckabee didn't even take this long to learn his lesson.

Hey Howard Dean!

Just sent a message that is ostensibly to Howard Dean. Here's what I told him (or whichever aide ends up reading my message).

We have a candidate who is ahead in delegates, ahead in state contests won, and ahead in the popular vote. Sen. Clinton does have every right to stay in the race, but she does not have the right to claim that it's for the good of the Democratic party. Take a look at Sen. Clinton's website. She's doing so poorly that she doesn't even list any of her election standings on her front page. Or anywhere that I could find. Campaigns can be forgiven for hiding a lot of things, but hiding the reality of her standings from her own promoters?

McCain cannot be beaten on toughness or experience by anyone in this campaign, because nothing they can say will compete with a "When I was in Vietnam..." story. End of line. He can be beaten on the wisdom of his policies, on his disdain for huge sweeping demographics in this country. The only person running who can defeat him on that territory is Senator Obama, and the votes are showing it. When will the Democratic party figure that out?

Share your thoughts, too.

As far as I'm concerned, this is all there is to it. Clinton, as of tonight, is listing her Pennsylvania win as a turn in the tide. She's depending on this one state to stay in a race that she cannot win. Huckabee didn't even take this long to learn his lesson.