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  1. I'm re-reading, and it hurts.

     

    To say their opinon on them and atttacked us. With no mercy. They claimed we attaemted spy tryed to get allainces to destroy them and vandlise the wiki. All but the last is true. A member did vandlise the wiki but I or the entire rebellion idid not know tell he told me. I told him to not do it.

     

    ^Every LPC-related post in recent memory. (Only add in a bit less coherence.)

  2. 22 hours ago, Drege said:

    interesting

     

    Thanks. I just found it kind of funny considering the reason why most online conversations go off the rails....and it rarely has anything to do with the actual content of the conversation. Usually it's more about someone believing that they know what the other person is thinking, which is of course impossible.

  3. 4 hours ago, Helbrecht said:

    i hate cellphones with a passion. My stint at corporate life left me feeling tethered, collared and leashed. At the beck and call of the world just because i needed a mobile phone, no a "smartphone" to be of use to my customers and colleagues.

     

    Nothing quiet like having you Sunday afternoon perambulation through some choice woodland shattered by the peals or the buzz of a phone eagerly demanding your attention so that you can engage in some conversation which is mostly banal. So, do i have a cellphone today, yes i do. Do i need it for work... not really. Do i want to have one handy, yes it has its uses. I just do not receive calls from people/entities i do not know. I personally like being able to to check up on the weather forecast as it can tell me whether it is the right time to  risk sowing/transplantation. It is also handy as it lets me respond to my buyers during the day when i am not at the house. For the missus and kids to talk to me while i am out on the land, we use the two way radios.

     

    I do wear a wristwatch. It is the first thing my dad bought with his earnings back in the day and it was a graduation present to me.

     

     

    Has there been some kind of drastic change in your life? Remember, I'm outside the loop at the best of times these days.

  4. There's never been an IC in the first place for most people.

    And therein lies the problem.

    For me, it's never been a big deal since I've always been quite content to "roleplay" as myself.

    I am a real-life, actual penguin.

    I used to be a walrus, then I woke up one day and was suddenly transformed into an aging Egyptian kleptomaniac.

    I'll probably end up as a walrus again.

  5. The game's on cruise control on a straight desert highway, and has been since the day it started. It just took a while for most folks to notice. But really, as to why it's 'boring', that's easy enough to explain. Nobody wants to lose, which is pretty funny since the game has no end. So the only way to 'win' is to attach yourself to a much larger group or to simply stop playing. Most people have chosen the latter option.

    For me, the 'game' died in 2008 when many of you people ('you' being CN players as a group) decided that the IC/OOC line was no longer a thing, and then cheered as the ToS was torn to shreds in the process.

    If players want to know what the problem is, they should try looking in a !@#$@#$ mirror.

  6. For several years I have promoted the idea of going to war for reasons of honor or being slighted as opposed to 'our allies are at war so we should be, too' or 'let's wait until the numbers are on our side'. In each instance I have failed to garner any interest. This has been true in multiple alliances. It's not one or two. It's all of them.

    Welcome to SlumberNations. We may as well go play that other game and sit there typing 'pew pew pew' at each other.

  7. Tywin, you have a lot of long sentences. Nothing wrong with that, but generally it can help to break things apart to highlight key points. Take this last paragraph for example:

    With a few sentence structure tweaks:

    So yeah, there's one tip for you. You might also want to look into not using so many descriptor words. It's a little too flowery at times.

    When I write, my first draft is usually terrible. I find that it gets better and better as I go through the draft and make small changes one or two at a time, rereading the paragraphs as I make changes. Once I have changed a dozen or so bits, I go back through and reread the whole thing, and try and evaluate if there is any area that I want to improve. Sometimes, it helps to let things set for an hour or two and revisit them.

    So there's two tips. Practice makes perfect, keep it up!

    Some excellent advice there. More periods, fewer commas. Avoid adjectives.

    I would add that a re-read should be done aloud. If it doesn't sound like the way someone speaks, or if it seems awkward, odds are good you're putting some of your readers to sleep.

    When teaching writing classes I insisted on this last one.

  8. another round of surgery to reconnect the organs they disconnected this time round

    So are you just walking around with them in a grocery bag for the time being?

    wtf1.gif

    (Glad everything worked out. From this point forward, you are hereby granted the right to roll your eyes in utter disdain when someone complains about how something incredibly trivial is "ruining their life." If you have a teenage daughter, you may already be accustomed to this.)

  9. I went through 48 weeks of chemo back in 2006-2007, so believe me when I say I know what it's like to sit around and ponder one's mortality in a very real and completely !@#$@#$ scary way. In my situation, it didn't help that the meds I was taking listed thirty-two possible side-effects, of which I managed to exhibit thirty-one. (Everything but hair loss. Go figure.) The good news for me was that apart from one biopsy, I didn't need anything invasive done.

    I'm also 49, and just yesterday had my first (of two) meetings this year with the specialist monitoring my own high-risk situation. Each April and October, every year for the last few years, I've submitted to a battery of tests and then waited nervously for the results. So far so good, and yes, knowing is far better than merely hoping that everything will be OK.

    I trust your doctor is correct and your recovery will be smooth and complete. As I learned during my own treatment, CN is (unfortunately) something that doesn't require a whole lot of energy to keep up with if you don't happen to be in a position of authority. With that in mind, defend your own damn nation! You'd think you were sick or something. Sheesh.

    All the best.

    (byw....Isn't middle-age totally awesome?)

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