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I would like to extend a very special THANK YOU to the person/people who managed to change my mind about something I have believed in my whole life. That everyone has some form of human decency and respect for other's lives. (And also for altering my whole FFXI playing experience)

/cheers

After having my thread about someone's death RATED DOWN, I was upset but I thought I would be over it by the time I got home from work.

I wasn't.

I got home from work, I skipped dinner (my brother and my niece were over) and went straight upstairs ( I didnt even say hi, not even to my bf).

I logged in to FFXI. My first impulse? to unequip my LS.

Then I thought, why am I doing this? at which point someone messaged me because I still had my mentor flag on.

When I almost bit her head off for asking a simple question, I realized that I was disgusted with people. I didnt want to talk to anyone, and if I saw anyone else talking all I wanted to say was "STHU who cares". Now, I know most of you dont know me, but those of you that do KNOW that I am nothing like that, I am usually a very happy and helpful person.

I spent the rest of the night with my LS off and simply went to get my rank 4 with one friend. Ignoring everyone else for the whole night despite a few LS friends trying to /tell me (they knew I was one because my bf told them).

So, again. Thank you to whoever demonstarted such a blatent disregard for human life and a lack of any form of emotion whatsoever. Your actions did not go unnoticed. Good for you.

** I apologize to anyone I may have ignored last night, and an honest thank you for your concern.

Edited, Wed Aug 18 11:00:34 2004 by Eleusynia

It's posted in the bismarck forum. "A sad reminder ; ;"

Thanks Avitue.

I wasn't really fishing for any responses on either post, especially not this one (except for maybe another huge rate-down but I'm not big on rating anyway so I didn't care).

I just needed to let off some steam.

And yes, Cutriss, I've also abandoned the main forum for the most part.

Just remember a few things Ele:

1) The rating system here is about as important as a Chinese newspaper rathing the quality of service at your local bar: not very reliable most of the time, and certainly nothnig to get worked up over. When you know no one will see you do something, you can rate anythnig down, for kicks or whatever. Either way, it was just some anonymous bozo, someone you'll never meet and never talk to more likely than not. Let their stupid act pass.

and 2) Try to remember that taking anger out on those close to you, or those you care about, or those that try to be friendly to you, isn't the way. Go kick a puppy if you have to (although the Puppy never did anything to you, so...shame on you!), ir at lesat go slice up a Goblin, but try to remember that frustrations aren't something that should be carelessly lashed out. You could cause hurts you'll later regret.

Tither way, I hope everyhing's evened out for you by now. Life will go on, somehow, whether we tell it to or not. I suppose it'd be for the best to take that movement and go with it, happily if possible.

The Karma system is flawed. You can do it under anonyminity (so spelled wrong) and for no reason whatsoever. So thusly you have people who truly have no lives and think they're so cool coming into this forum (possibly not even from Bismarck) and rate down random topics. Or, you have the people who think they know what you're talking about, and rate you down because they think you're being a whiny little brat, which is exactly what I was a victim of (and you people know who you are), or simply because they don't like you, and they'll rate you down because they know that if your Rating is low enough, your post disappears (worst. idea. ever.).

The best advice I can give you, is don't care what other people think about you. You seem to be a mature person, old enough to know better than to get upset at a few bad eggs. Remember you're playing a game with a LOT of immature little kids (some are even immature adults -_-), and unfortunately, no matter if you have the patience of a saint or not, it's going to get to you, you're going to get frustrated, and you're going to want to give up. But please do not pass judgment on human nature because of a message board. These people here and in-game are not always the best examples of the human race. I mean honestly, read the Bad Players thread, or just spend some time in Southern San d'Oria.

Take a big deep breath, and remember, it's just a game, and these people can't do anything to you unless you let them. Let the ignorant wallow in their stupidity, and befriend the intelligent ones. You'll have a much more pleasurable time.

I'm new to the forums here but I see this and your "sad reminder" thread and that makes me sick to my stomach. I realize this might be a dead topic, but I feel that this should be a reminder to all that no matter what one goes through in life, who are we to think that it isn't important, or shouldn't be talked about like this was.

I played Earth 2025 and when one of our foreign players was in a plane crash and almost died, the entire Earth community, near to 50000 players (immpressive stats for a TEXT based game) showed an outreach of support. Letters, cards, well-wishes, all came from people on there, and they all went to Romania where he lived.

I think, in this game espeicially, the server we are on kind of becomes an extended family. I've met people on here that are great people and whom seem to be willing to do anything for someone else. In that regard, when one of us is hurting all of us (for the most part) are as well, and that is the time when we all band together and become that family.

Once again, sorry if I dredged up something that shoudl have stayed quiet, I just felt like putting my 2 cents in.