My pleasant afternoon experience

[tfmachad]

Happy for you, Gronath. You deserve something like that... a lot, with all the s*** you put up with, especially in the RM.

Hey, Zapp. It's not that bad. But thank you, it means a lot.

To be honest I'm quite sure I, for myself, am a part of all the **** other people have to put up with in return. I mean, entering Rheinland when Hans Krieger, or the RM for that matter, is around may not be a walk in the park for some, especially if one takes it personally what we do there in character.

Sure, there's a great deal of bizarre stuff that goes our way, but that's just a small part of the game. I have the Orange Box sitting on my desk for some two months now and I can't really find the time (or the will) to play it. And I consider that to be the best game buy of the last year. I barely managed to beat Portal and play a little Team Fortress 2. Half-Life 2 and the episodes I didn't even touch, even though I know for a fact they're great. Discovery beat them for me.

Sure in Rheinland we have a great deal of bizarre things coming our way but it's not really exclusive to us. To be honest, I'm much more impressed about the guys who endure playing law enforcement in Liberty space, especially in NY. That's one job offer I'm not inclined to take anytime soon. Kudos to them just for trying.

My purpose here was to take a different stand around the general atmosphere of dismay saying that I have the feeling that we are improving, and that perhaps our perception saying otherwise is driven by the great roller coaster that are our fears much more than actual facts.

Not that I think everyone's consternation is wrong. That care and diligence to point out what's wrong (or at least what we understand as wrong) is certainly the responsible for us coming along well together.

Sure, we have the cap whores, the ooRPers, lolzers... But we also got LPI; BPA; the strengthening of KNF; Del, Angelfire, and numbers of other new people whose first posts are about RP or how to RP properly; USS merging with SA and letting go of most of their capitals and, more importantly, acquiring a different understanding of the game; we have PvP supported RP in NY; we got the LH faction; we got Xoria. And I could go on.

My message here is simply: Have a laugh and take a look around. It's not the end of the world. Let's not let our grievances take away the best in us. Play, teach, have fun, make friends.

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