How to deal with change.

[Jihadjoe]

Today I was thinking back to when I first joined this awesome community back in november of last year. I remember how at the time people were saying that disco was falling apart and the whole thing was a cesspool of oorp and no fair play. People were saying how they were on the verge of leaving, and a few veterans did leave.

Seems like something similar is hapening right now, but did it ever really stop, and why do we veiw it as negative?

Here is a thread that I found which I replied in near the start of my time here.

http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?sh...ic=8950&hl=

This was one of the first threads I ever posted in, and my point about being proud in what we have created here still stands.

People come and go, such is the nature of life and the comunities we choose to be a part of. Everything has to change and evolve, infact if it weren't for changes and evolution, this wouldn't be a roleplaying community at all.

The kind of conservative attitude that resists change, and laments every change that is disagreed with, is the kind of attitude that will stifle the new people, and won't even come near to keeping the older, tired members here.

There is a song by Gogol Bordello with the lyric
"there were never any good old days,
they are today they are tomorrow.
Its just a stupid thing we say,
cursing tomorrow as sorrow"

I think we need to have a much brighter outlook on discovery's future, and hopefully people can agree with this. We have a lot of new and exiting things happening now and 5 new admins, which is incredible.

Enjoy your time here, and accept change as it comes, of course we're going to have differences of opinion, but thats ok, thats how people interact.

Have fun everyone, I think I've said me peice now.

EDIT: I just want to say I intend of sticking around for a long time yet, and if and when I do leave I won't make a big fuss of it. I won't say that the server is rubbbish and I won't expect people to cry and pine for me in my absence.

EDIT 2: Gogol Bordello ae a quality live act, they are a bunch of Ukrainian imigrants, living in new yrok and playing kind gyspy punk. They rule, Huge energy on stage...

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[Stoat]

Very well said Joe. Change is always difficult to deal with, but without it everything stagnates. It's always a shame to see "old timers" moving on, and they are missed, but as long as new folks join the community thrives.

Long live Discovery.

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[Epholl]

Well said.


It is not the game, that changes, nor the community, I believe.

It is us, who see things differently after some time of being here.


And these days will be called "the good old times" too, someday, i bet.

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[Kuraine]

I've always tried to maintain a positive outlook on Discovery's future. Despite my own personal misgivings on a French house, I think we have a great deal to look forward to in the future of this mod, which will have its proponents and its opponents, but you cannot please everyone. But I view the change as very positive, and hopefully others will too. Discovery will be around for a long while yet.

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[Coin]

Long live Discovery.

so say we all

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[Jamez]

It's always a shame to see "old timers" moving on, and they are missed

*gets on stage, waves hand and jumps in the air*

I'm still here you know!!!

*walks off stage with zimmerframe, climbs into an Avenger*

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[sovereign]

Discovery is far stronger than many seem to believe. Look in the roleplay and flood forums, there is plenty of hope and joy there.


That, and we're just too damn pretty for God to let us die.

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[n00bl3t]

Don't resist change.

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Anything I say is not intended as offensive, and to try and deliberately misinterpret it as such would be an attempt at trolling via misrepresentation.

It's not a conspiracy, it's localised bias. They're not intelligent enough to form a conspiracy.

[Jihadjoe]

N00bl3t, your very short post is largely right. However not resisting change -at all- is probably a mistake. You have to select your changes, not just blindly follow the trend.

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[Akumabito]

You also have to stop clinging to oppression just because it's become tradition around here.