North King
blech
- Joined
- Jan 2, 2004
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And do what I've often done before: I will take a round three months or so off of NESing entirely. This is not good for my health; I am up to my neck in homework; I am having so many extracurriculars that the leaders are beginning to get mad at me whenever I have to prioritize one over another; I am, in fact, trending somewhat more towards insanity than usual. Even more so, this is the worst year to be slacking off on: in only a few month's time, I'll start applying to college, and if I'm to get into one of my dream schools, then I must actually work (something I've rarely ever done before). Classes are more and more difficult this year, and I've been falling further and further behind.
But it's not just me.
This forum, as a whole, is failing. Failing at keeping my interest, failing at keeping my dedication. Mods are scarce these days (good mods, I should say), and their job isn't eased by little buzzing players who do their best to try and annoy them into an early grave. Worse, from my perspective, is the fact that fresh starts are dying. Iggy's and Farow's NESes are the only ones I can believe with confidence will survive more than a few months, and they have hit some slow times. The rest of them are either failing in surviving past their troubled births, or worse, miscarried in the first place.
Then you have the fact that it seems like all the majority wants is a modern game, which I never really liked: why on earth do we insist on replaying the same old scenarios over and over? Why do we have to see France / England / Russia / Germany / Japan / America dominate the world again? It's not going to change much: a few players might be different, the era might be off by a few hundred years, but alternate histories on this forum are by now, clones of each other. I respect others and their effort, but his effort is the only truly creative force on this forum, at least consistently: he is the only one whose timelines actually vary from the standard. Yet even he cannot be god, despite what some may think: alternate histories will not change, will not become interesting, until we have a truly alternate history, one which doesn't replay over again, and we need new brains and new ideas for that. That, I fear, is something that will be a long time in coming.
Lastly, we come to this somewhat nasty little diatribe, which I hope you'll forgive me for. The players in today's NESes are simply awful. We're lazy, slow, and mediocre to a fault. We send in orders late, if at all, we complain when the update is not exactly when he said it would be. Not all NESers, no, but the majority of them are whiny brats who have been spoiled by too many good mods. I can see why most of the old generation left: there's no real spirit in NESing today. Yes, roll your eyes if you must, for I am going into that moronic metaphysical crap.
NESers don't play to create these days, they don't play for love of what we do here. The average player desires nothing more than an all-out wargame romp, where they can endlessly throw their soldiers around the room ad hoc, without any kind of logic behind their actions. They want to go on conquering until they are defeated, boast about their great victories, then write hundred word, three paragraph "stories", then claiming that they are obviously not playing to win, for otherwise they wouldn't have written them. This is, of course, garbage. Players don't care about their nations. They don't care enough to invest time, anyway, nor real thought. The suicidal stands and charges, the random backstabbing, the constant attempts to claim the other person is being "unrealistic" when, indeed they themselves have thrown all sense out the window: it's getting ridiculous, and that's what defines this generation of NESing. (Don't bother trying to provoke me into arguing this paragraph; what's done is done, and little you or I can do will change it.)
Some people will say NESing is "flourishing", but that's only if a man on a heart-lung machine who still has a few spasms of brain activity can be called "healthy". NESing is a saddening arena, and I get depressed every time I log on the forum. It has to stop, and I am stopping it. Right now. Hence, for three months or so, I will say good bye (and I would not be surprised if people said good riddance in return).
In three months, though, if I still remember the URL, I should be returning... Because I have one last thing to do before I "die" on this forum.
Farewell. I wish luck to the mods.
But it's not just me.
This forum, as a whole, is failing. Failing at keeping my interest, failing at keeping my dedication. Mods are scarce these days (good mods, I should say), and their job isn't eased by little buzzing players who do their best to try and annoy them into an early grave. Worse, from my perspective, is the fact that fresh starts are dying. Iggy's and Farow's NESes are the only ones I can believe with confidence will survive more than a few months, and they have hit some slow times. The rest of them are either failing in surviving past their troubled births, or worse, miscarried in the first place.
Then you have the fact that it seems like all the majority wants is a modern game, which I never really liked: why on earth do we insist on replaying the same old scenarios over and over? Why do we have to see France / England / Russia / Germany / Japan / America dominate the world again? It's not going to change much: a few players might be different, the era might be off by a few hundred years, but alternate histories on this forum are by now, clones of each other. I respect others and their effort, but his effort is the only truly creative force on this forum, at least consistently: he is the only one whose timelines actually vary from the standard. Yet even he cannot be god, despite what some may think: alternate histories will not change, will not become interesting, until we have a truly alternate history, one which doesn't replay over again, and we need new brains and new ideas for that. That, I fear, is something that will be a long time in coming.
Lastly, we come to this somewhat nasty little diatribe, which I hope you'll forgive me for. The players in today's NESes are simply awful. We're lazy, slow, and mediocre to a fault. We send in orders late, if at all, we complain when the update is not exactly when he said it would be. Not all NESers, no, but the majority of them are whiny brats who have been spoiled by too many good mods. I can see why most of the old generation left: there's no real spirit in NESing today. Yes, roll your eyes if you must, for I am going into that moronic metaphysical crap.
NESers don't play to create these days, they don't play for love of what we do here. The average player desires nothing more than an all-out wargame romp, where they can endlessly throw their soldiers around the room ad hoc, without any kind of logic behind their actions. They want to go on conquering until they are defeated, boast about their great victories, then write hundred word, three paragraph "stories", then claiming that they are obviously not playing to win, for otherwise they wouldn't have written them. This is, of course, garbage. Players don't care about their nations. They don't care enough to invest time, anyway, nor real thought. The suicidal stands and charges, the random backstabbing, the constant attempts to claim the other person is being "unrealistic" when, indeed they themselves have thrown all sense out the window: it's getting ridiculous, and that's what defines this generation of NESing. (Don't bother trying to provoke me into arguing this paragraph; what's done is done, and little you or I can do will change it.)
Some people will say NESing is "flourishing", but that's only if a man on a heart-lung machine who still has a few spasms of brain activity can be called "healthy". NESing is a saddening arena, and I get depressed every time I log on the forum. It has to stop, and I am stopping it. Right now. Hence, for three months or so, I will say good bye (and I would not be surprised if people said good riddance in return).
In three months, though, if I still remember the URL, I should be returning... Because I have one last thing to do before I "die" on this forum.
Farewell. I wish luck to the mods.
