2013-10-07, 01:43 AM
Savage Wrote:Agreed. I just try to ignore the negativity now and live in ignorance until the floor finally drops from underneath the game, sadly
It's hard to stay ignorant of a burning building as you watch from outside. And it's still our home... so we still check on it from time to time hoping to see if the flames died down enough to go back inside... before we're inevitably forced out again for the same reasons as before.
Some of us were like "noooo don't do that, it'll start a fire" and the landlord is like "nah it's good" and then we pleaded "no really, it's going to start a fire that has the potential to go out of control, and we don't like fires" but then they just ignored us. Then over time, a giant fire is just sorta there and the smart people, maybe partially burned, escaped and the more clairvoyant residents jumped ship way before because they saw the landlord's business practices... but there are still people inside paying rent, albeit unhappy, but still paying rent.
Then the bank calls the landlord and is like "what the hell, why is there a fire there to- uhh never mind, btw, give us our payments now so we can give you more debt while we expand / remodel / paint your building that's uhh burning". Landlord is like "oh no, there aren't that many paying residents left, can you help us out a little bit? Maybe deal with that fire?" Then the bank calls back a couple days later and says "sure, but only the things that keeps the building from falling down completely" and the landlord complied. And so, workers flew in a continent away to do a few touch ups to the house every so often, all to keep it from falling down into a fiery mess. But several months later, management feels the future isn't looking to good and gives out a message to all the old and current residents "guys, what can we do to get you back?".
So the residents came up with a makeshift list-o-complaints and came up with this: "I mean, it would be cool to have some indoor plumbing that actually worked most of the time, maybe a lock on our doors... that's kinda nice to have... especially with all the robberies that are happening, the brownouts that happen are pretty annoying because I have to turn things back on so you could work on that, the police arrested my neighbor with charges based on counterfeit operations so uhh I'd appreciate it if you looked into that a little, and uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh maybe deal with that fire that started years ago?"
And the landlord was like "indoor plumbing working occasionally? You got it. Locks on the doors? Done. Well, kinda. We'll throw in some fancy curtains for you, but we'll need them back in 3 months".
You would think that some of us would roll our eyes... and we did! But we still took those beautiful beautiful curtains at the same time. And back into the burning building we go, all while the ones that stayed outside shake their heads in disapproval.
Where the hell is this metaphor going. I need sleep.