Much love to Ben and Claw and Katie and Bacon! 
You guys are awesome, and none of you needed to comment in this thread to be. <3s.
This is the unspoken belief of my guide: Successfully quitting Maplestory doesn't mean that I avoid it like the plague. It means it has no power over me any longer, whether it makes me avoid it or be attracted to it. People can play Maplestory and not be addicted to it; people can not play Maplestory and still be addicted to it. This is why it is so important that I am talking about cognitive, psychological substrates here, and why I endeavoured to change the title of my guide to match this concept (Thanks Fiel) I don't try to make my posts long or my words complicated. This is what I wanted to talk about.
In any case, if you'll kindly stalk my posts, you'll see that I post on this forum in the non-Maplestory sections. I came to Southperry because I was interested in the community that had sprung up during my time with MS. (There is a huge elephant in the living room, a can of worms that I'm avoiding because I don't want to make this post too long; anyway, it's not the important point.)
It's my hope that you'll understand that if I come to this forum (just as I also visit a number of others, by and large NOT Maplestory forums), I'm interested in the online community of the forum, and the vagaries of the forum's philosophy, not Maplestory itself. What am I waiting for by being on this forum? Certainly nothing to do with Maplestory, apologies to all my MS-loving friends here!
I think anyone who's met me on IRC or elsewhere on the forums will concur that I have no interest in MS, although honestly I won't be offended if someone thinks I do, lol.
I don't think there is any possible way I can benefit from Maplestory anymore. The most I might do is flatter myself and think that others can benefit from my experiences. To be perfectly honest, when the event began, I struggled to find a topic I could honestly interest myself in that concerned Maplestory, but clearly there's ways of talking without thinking! Really the driving force behind why I wrote this guide was so I could participate in a "!!!forum event!!!," and maybe to challenge my writing repertoire by trying a really different style and genre (I've never written in the "a guide to XYZ" genre before). After all, I'm a Fiel fan, a peace-and-joy-and-love-and-happiness fan, a speech-language-therapy fan and a writing fan - ultimately not a Maplestory fan. I hope humbly that such a person may exist on these forums without unsettling the waters too much.
EDIT: Many apologies for making this post so long. I'm not very good at being succinct.
You guys are awesome, and none of you needed to comment in this thread to be. <3s.bubbles Wrote:I think that even though you are not playing the game, talking about the game and coming to forums like this means you didn't really quit.I know exactly what you mean, and thanks for your thoughts. This is a very, very important thing to grasp, and I'm glad you've raised the issue, because I had completely forgotten about it. I may incorporate it into my guide someday, although I'm really tired at the moment and might forget lol.
Not to offend you or anything but that's my two cents.
This is the unspoken belief of my guide: Successfully quitting Maplestory doesn't mean that I avoid it like the plague. It means it has no power over me any longer, whether it makes me avoid it or be attracted to it. People can play Maplestory and not be addicted to it; people can not play Maplestory and still be addicted to it. This is why it is so important that I am talking about cognitive, psychological substrates here, and why I endeavoured to change the title of my guide to match this concept (Thanks Fiel
) I don't try to make my posts long or my words complicated. This is what I wanted to talk about.In any case, if you'll kindly stalk my posts, you'll see that I post on this forum in the non-Maplestory sections. I came to Southperry because I was interested in the community that had sprung up during my time with MS. (There is a huge elephant in the living room, a can of worms that I'm avoiding because I don't want to make this post too long; anyway, it's not the important point.)
It's my hope that you'll understand that if I come to this forum (just as I also visit a number of others, by and large NOT Maplestory forums), I'm interested in the online community of the forum, and the vagaries of the forum's philosophy, not Maplestory itself. What am I waiting for by being on this forum? Certainly nothing to do with Maplestory, apologies to all my MS-loving friends here!
I think anyone who's met me on IRC or elsewhere on the forums will concur that I have no interest in MS, although honestly I won't be offended if someone thinks I do, lol.
I don't think there is any possible way I can benefit from Maplestory anymore. The most I might do is flatter myself and think that others can benefit from my experiences. To be perfectly honest, when the event began, I struggled to find a topic I could honestly interest myself in that concerned Maplestory, but clearly there's ways of talking without thinking! Really the driving force behind why I wrote this guide was so I could participate in a "!!!forum event!!!," and maybe to challenge my writing repertoire by trying a really different style and genre (I've never written in the "a guide to XYZ" genre before). After all, I'm a Fiel fan, a peace-and-joy-and-love-and-happiness fan, a speech-language-therapy fan and a writing fan - ultimately not a Maplestory fan. I hope humbly that such a person may exist on these forums without unsettling the waters too much
.EDIT: Many apologies for making this post so long. I'm not very good at being succinct.