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Last day of summer vacation

Kaga said
I never accused you of being as awkward as 15-year-old me.I don't think it's a Canadian school thing. I'm American, but I still totally agree with Dervish about the "training wheels for life" thing. Sure, high school was shitty, but, life is shitty. High school teaches you how to accept responsibility and get work done like an adult, all while forcing you to work with superiors and peers that you hate, thus teaching you to how to handle these things - just like you'll have to in the real world.I really wish that sort of thing was brought to more people's attention. All through high school, I heard people constantly complaining about how the work was "too much" (when really it wasn't and they'd face much bigger work loads in their futures), that the content they were learning "wouldn't even help them in the real world" (when that's not the point; learning how to handle the work is the point), and just how much their teachers sucked (when they'd undoubtedly have to deal with bosses they don't like in the future, and it's probably best they just learn how to get along with or at the very least tolerate those above them). I saw my view on all this as a sort of success formula that I only wished it was easier to share. While I diligently worked along on things - keeping my grades high, preparing myself for what college will be like, and doing it all while remaining fairly positive about it all - so many students around me just seemed to spend their time developing bad habits and complaining about teachers' attempts to give them the skills they'd need to do well in college or at the very least, dealing with real people as adults.It's kind of sad, really.

High school for me seemed like it was students trying to one up each other and teachers. Every day I’d see people treating others like garbage all for the sake of making themselves look better. It’s like they were trying to improve their standings, but in the process all they did was hurt it. Some must have thought they were too good for everything they had to do in school, but it’s not like they’d ever do anything about it. :/

Last day of summer vacation

Dervish said
The most important thing high school teaches you is to be accountable for your responsibilities and how to interact with people - especially the ones you don't like. It's kind of like training the real world.

Canadian High School sounds nice. They did nothing like that here. It was more or less teachers trying to fill a quota so they didn't get fired. And the one's that did care about what they taught always got harassed by complaining students. They’d always say that the work was too much when it really wasn’t. Hell, when I gave a shit I was able to get most of it done in class. Now that I think about it, I had some really shitty kids in my classes.

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Scribbles said
Is his input necessary? No. Would we still like to see it? Yeah. You don't have to react to exactly what's going on, to be honest; you can be introspective, maybe discuss part of your character's back story. Pete and I had just as much to go off of and rounded out a few paragraphs each, man.

Heh, you were right. All I had to do was add some backstory and now I’ve got a post up. Thanks, I feel like I’ve really contributed now.

XCOM Enemy Unknown Season 1: The Coming Storm

At that moment Dean peered up at the new faces in the barracks, rather unsure of what to think or how to react to them. While professional in nature, Dean’s former unit in T.A.G was rather laid back, unlike most military systems. Of course, he was one of Captain Hitam’s boys. They were the best of the bunch, so it was expected that they knew how to be professional without adhering to common formalities. What exactly are they doing now anyway? The last time Dean saw them was in Japan, and with the successful operation on destroying a major yakuza family, it could be that they’re repeating the process in a different area. Hitam was one to never turn down work after all. After all the shit he went through with his parents as a kid… Maybe that’s why he took such a liking to Dean, similar experiences. Come to think of it, Jess also lost her mom back in ’05. Although that was a car wreck, not exactly the same as getting your parents murdered. She was always really quiet; and never seemed to get attached to anyone, an exception going for Flint and his charismatic abilities.

Shit, the only thing happening now’s a kid getting homesick. The bright lights of Yokohama at night almost brought Dean to tears when he saw them again for the first time in years. The cityscape was leagues better than this mesh of technology and cluttered construction zones. Still, he was here now with a job to do. Dean stood up out of respect for the officers in his presence, pushing the nostalgia out and awaiting whatever introductions or orders he’d be given.

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Doivid said
done. sorry it took me a while, I was very busy yesterday.

Thank you. :)

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Dinh AaronMk said
Not saying that it should happen absolutely but if we're afraid that someone we need to post doesn't post or disappears it'll lessen the impact on us all. Even me all the way on the East Coast. Alternatively, there could always be contingency plans in the even they don't show. Like in the group there could always be more than one person aware of another's plan to speak for him in the even he can't speak.Certainly. Though as a GM I certainly take a laissez-faire approach to the story. In my own big one I sort of trust everyone knows what's going on. I'll jump when there's unrest in the RP about someone doing something. But then again, that group is really small, something like four or five people posting every so often. So it's not a big issue.

Right, so are we doing this for sure? If so, it’d be a good idea to try and get in touch with everyone and figure out if they’re still willing to do the RP. And there’s also the business of getting a GM and Co-GM. Not sure who’d be the best for that as I haven’t been here since the beginning. And then I’d assume that the GM’s would need to figure out where to take the story and get up a post so this thing can get on the tracks, so to speak.

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Scribbles said
I'm not trying to be a dick, I promise - but I really want to know what you mean when you say "writer's block." The term generally refers to an inability to write due to a lack of inspiration. So you just don't have any inspiration? Because I assure you, you can't wait for inspiration to strike in this kind of situation; sometimes you have to grab the bull by the horns and force out a shitty, ugly little post, and hope that you can improve upon that next time. Each time you give in to the "writer's block" by just not writing anything, it gets harder and harder to come up with the next post, and then the one after that, and so on.

And I completely understand you, it just seems like me posting with the events presented wouldn’t add much. Like, I don’t have much to work with, and the story moving forward isn’t dependent on my character thinking about the guys that walked in. If it were any other situation, and if it would enrichen the story for my characters involvement then I’d etch out a post, trust me. I guess if we’re being specific it’s not writer’s block, just me scrambling to put up something good enough to not seem like shit.

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Pete said
Just write what you're character sees and does, then what s/he sees and does after the commander and party enter. Let's get a few more posts up before the GMs next!

And while this notion is good at heart, I don’t really see much worth in my character watching a few people walk into a room and then minimally reacting to it. It’s really great that you were able to put out a meaty four paragraph post, but all I can manage to write right now is a little short of a single paragraph. I don’t know if I’m just not skilled enough to squeeze out something longer, or if I’m just in a rut, but I’d rather not hold up the RP over my inability to write a decent post. I will try to get something up, but please don’t wait for me to do so. If it happens, it happens, and vice versa. I’ve seen countless RP’s die over people taking too long to post, and I won’t instigate the fall of this one.

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And now that I’m done with that somewhat depressing paragraph, you all are fantastic and can post if you set your minds to it.

My reasoning for not posting is simply situational. Any posts that you all write are well worth it. What I’m saying is this; I’m not claiming that the GM’s last post isn’t worth reacting to, I’m saying that I can’t really react due to writers block. I just wanted to clear that up.

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Dinh AaronMk said
In the end I suspect what group there is should break up. Even if to do more things at greater distance than base greed or poor politics.

So you're saying that all the characters who are grouped together now should break off into smaller groups? And then everyone who isn't in a group could find their way to each of these smaller groups...

Dinh AaronMk said
But when you set things up to depend on one person and that person doesn't deliver than you've sort of ruined everything.I learned this as well with a fantasy RP a friend of mine started. He was all pumped for it, we did our posts, and then it got to a point where he needed to post and he didn't.

Yeah, crafting a whole story that others participate in can be very difficult. The idea of GM'ing can be the greatest thing ever, but if you don't have the skill or drive... things fall flat. I'm not even sure if the "One to rule them all" rule really works. The first RP I've ever been in sort of had everyone move the story forward with their own ideas, but the meat and potatoes still went to the GM. Sure, we had people who did things out of line, but all you really had to do was tell them what they did wrong and ask them to edit their post. We made mistakes but we got through them together, it was truly a learning experience; a project that we crafted and changed rather than a game we played.

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This RP is still clearly getting interest, and it would be a shame to see such an ambitious story that people want to play out die because the GM’s MIA. I’m somewhat surprised that there isn’t a Co-GM; it’s almost always integral to have someone who can carry the story when you just can’t at the moment, and it opens you up to new ideas with another brain to help build the script. So we’ve tried to get into contact with Italian, correct? He hasn’t answered, posted, or even logged on the site in three weeks. I think that’s a long enough time to have someone else take over and be GM in place of our missing irradiated southern European friend. Also, elect a Co-GM so something like this doesn’t happen again. Maybe even form other groups going down the two other routes, so that we’re not tethered down if one group’s slower to posting than the other. The different groups could be in line with different factions, all trying to race to the end to see who can claim the railways first. And with a large group of people participating in the RP, do we really want all of them bunched up?

That’s my two cents anyway. Follow it or don’t, but something needs to happen if this RP is to stay afloat. Dead RP’s are a dime a dozen on this website, let’s make an experience worth millions.