Agreed Atonal :-)
A buddy of mine sent me the following link today:
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http://www.rpgplanet.com/features/editorials/addict/>
http://www.rpgplanet.com/features/editorials/addict/
I wonder if he is trying to tell me something?
-Faras
-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Sanders [mailto:
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Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 2:13 PM
To: Eqbards (E-mail)
Subject: [eqbards] Atonal Rambles and Might Be Mental
Not overworked today. :)
Please keep in mind that this is just a general (and possibly inaccurate)
observation made in the short amount of time it takes the screen to change
from the server select screen.
It's been (more than?) two years since EQ launched, and it *seems* to me
that server populations have peaked. Not much talk of new servers, doesn't
seem like the newer servers are threatening to get as large as older ones,
etc.
I'm wondering when the last of us will be kicked off the last server? Yeah,
I'm sure EQ2, and Star Wars Galaxies, and Planetside, and whatever else will
be super, but I'm having a hard time picturing myself saying, at anytime,
"Well Atonal ole bud, it's been fun, but I'm off to play something else
now.". I mean, c'mon! The time invested, the character developed, the fun
had, the friends made, the equipment gained...
I'm not mental, and I can walk away from the game when necessary (my job is
secure and my wife is happy), however, ... the easiest way to explain this
is...I am Atonal. In much the same way the reality of the body is the
vehicle of the mind, that collection of 1's and 0's in *that* reality has
also been a vehicle of my mind. I am he, and he is me.
Yes, the reality is, if EQ disappears tomorrow, life will go on, and the
majority of us will move on...but does that change the fact that our
characters are us, and to see them die, knowing they can never return would
not be truly painful, both mentally and emotionally?
I tried to quit EQ once. I figured that going to school, it wouldn't be
worth the monthly fee. About a month later, I realized that EQ was the only
game I wanted to play, even if I could only be on half of every month, or
less. My free time was spent wishing I could play EQ. So when I caved in,
and logged back on the first time after quitting, imagine my joy at seeing
Atonal, there in that character screen, merrily spinning in circles swiping
at air!
Woot!!
Ok...maybe I *am* mental... :)
Long live,
Atonal
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