The golden rule of "Real Life First" must have stopped applying sometime over the last four months without me knowing
No, the 'golden rule' of 'we let Vin go on random unannounced hiatuses without any warning or communication' is what stopped applying.
I much rather deal with an rp booting (yes,even from this rp which I love) over a job loss because no one here is going to pay my bills.
This is a fair statement to make, real life IS more important than an RP and we haven't begrudged Drac from going on hiatuses when his life turns up to kick him in the balls.
You know what the key difference between you and Drac is?
He actually tells us outright when he's busy and can at least take five minutes out of a day to pop into the OOC and tell us as much. You just up and disappear and only come back to post pointless shit. I respect that you've got a busy life, but let's be serious here. Very few people are busy enough that they can't just open a thread for five minutes and bang out an apologetic 'Sorry it's taking a while to post, guys, got RL stuff to deal with'.
I may poke and prod poeple but if someone isn't here to post,even if it takes six months, I'd rather wait it out.
This statement would hold more water if it was your first time doing this.
It isn't.I can't wait to see someone else take awhile again and get the same treatment. Very welcoming.
See, everyone else is around enough that I can just pressure them into posting or round up some stuff with RBY to get them started. The whole reason we dropped the deadline on you (and even then, I was pulling for you and got you the extra week) is because you make a habit of disappearing altogether for months on end and only coming back when you feel like it. Deadline was motivation, and it clearly worked.
But anyway, this entire little debacle can be pointless in the long run if you just do the smart thing and
post in the OOC if you're too busy to post in the IC. It's not rocket science, Vin.
Not even molecular biology.
Shit, don't think this even counts as a food chain diagram.