The Rules

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Xoria. It would be wrong to say that I love to read your posts, but I'd rather say that I like to read them a lot. Love is not used as freely in my native language as it is in English and it carries over. A very big hand to you for bringing class to these forums. People should take note of your posts whether they agree with you or not since you let issues argue instead of going to personalities. A big hats-off for not making the posts too offensive or too accusatory. And a huge plus for not rolling with expressions like lol, lollercakes, lollerz, skillzzz, u, 2, 4 etc. Anyway I think you get my drift. Nice to know that forumites originating from your county can and are still willing to make themselves proud by using well written English with complete sentences. In short, thank you for putting real effort to your posts. Sadly if someone does that he/she is perceived nowadays eloquent rather than normal. :D

Enough with the back-patting. On to the commenting the post.

I agree with you that all people really need is time to grow up and get perspective. Rarely anyone can rush up the ripening of identity and perspective that comes with age. With age you come to understand that life is not, be that real world or internet, a popularity contest or measurable by the perceived cool-o-meter. A teenager is in it's basest form a pack animal. You're either in or out. Everything is black or white. With age you actually learn that it's a bit more complicated than that. You can be wrong and it's ok as long as you admit it. Only time ever will cure teenager's perception of himself/herself that world revolves around him/herself to a middle-aged view of being just a small wheel in the bigger machine. And Lord knows we old fellas have been there and hopefully have grown out of it. And basically who cares if you are having fun and no harm is done to others. Everybody acts usually their age more or less.

When you age you are bound to enter situations, like a work place, where you still have to work with even those obnoxious types. In school world you don't actually have to face such situations. Situations where you just can't do anything about it except endure. And bad mouthing behind someone's back just tells a lot about you as a person.

It's quite paradoxical that teens are most vocal about let-all-the-flowers-bud, but in reality they are the most exclusive and homogenous group of all. Narrow mindset produces narrow view of game play in Disco.

With age you actually understand fully the nugget of wisdom Xoria so freely gave us. You get to choose the crowd you hang with. You can make the decision who you play with and not vice versa. Disco caters to all tastes. When people realize this the chip comes off of their shoulders. I'm still an advocate of playing by and forcing the rules so don't you people get me wrong.

And Xoria, you'll probably have noticed a long time ago that like-minded people always gather around each other. In real life as in the net. So don't give up on hope, but just keep on doing what you are doing.

If you are in your teens and reading this, I wouldn't be too incenced about my post but I'd rather take solace in the fact that I get older and hopefully wiser every single day that passes. And I know I sound like your mom/dad but one day you'll horribly recognize that he/she actually knew what he/she was talking about and you and your friends had it all wrong. I know I have had to go down that path in my life :laugh:


This being a server that strives towards something higher and clearly has set of rules means that it's not simply allowed to do whatever one pleases regardless of one's age. There are others to be taken into consideration. Giving something out of yourself for others to enjoy. And that my friends is maturity in it's truest form.

Edit: Clarified some of my thoughts and grammatic check.

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