Post by Mr. Game & Watch on Jul 11, 2019 17:23:18 GMT -8
Hey all. So, as some of you may or may not have noticed I just kinda poofed for a month or two and haven’t really said anything on the matter. Apologies for that, it wasn’t my intention. In fact, I didn’t think much on it because every other day I thought that by the time the weekend came around, I would be back to rp stuff and returning to my adminly duties like usual, but that day just never came. I had to muse on my decision for a while, and that’s why I’m making this message now.
In short, I’m leaving. Call it a hiatus or what have you, what I mean is that I will be ceasing my roleplaying activities on this site for the foreseeable future, which entails that I’m dropping my current characters and plots, and (assuming that I’m in any missions that aren’t archived) I’m giving up my character slots for the respective mission mod to do with as they please. As for my role as admin, I won’t be performing any of my previous duties unless I just so happen to be on the site and want to do a quick clean up of anything that seems to be out of order.
As always, if there is anything that concerns me or something I’ve implemented on the site, I can be contacted through my usual avenues and I’d be happy to sort out anything that comes my way. I’ll try to be on Discord a bit more often too. Sorry if anyone has been trying to message me on there, I don’t think I’ve logged on for the past two months or so.
With the basics covered though, in true G&W fashion, I want to divulge my reasonings for leaving in further detail because I know whenever long time members leave without saying much there’s always an underlying lack of closure that follows. That said, this next section might be a bit long and rambly, so all the important bits are up there ^ already and I don’t expect people to read further unless they’re curious.
Regardless, I leave the site in the very capable hands of its staff members, special apology to Shadow/Wolf because it seems I always leave not too long after he returns, which I swear is completely coincidental. I won’t say this is my final goodbye, considering that this has to be my third or fourth ‘farewell’ thread, but until the next time, see y’all around the interwebz.
In short, I’m leaving. Call it a hiatus or what have you, what I mean is that I will be ceasing my roleplaying activities on this site for the foreseeable future, which entails that I’m dropping my current characters and plots, and (assuming that I’m in any missions that aren’t archived) I’m giving up my character slots for the respective mission mod to do with as they please. As for my role as admin, I won’t be performing any of my previous duties unless I just so happen to be on the site and want to do a quick clean up of anything that seems to be out of order.
As always, if there is anything that concerns me or something I’ve implemented on the site, I can be contacted through my usual avenues and I’d be happy to sort out anything that comes my way. I’ll try to be on Discord a bit more often too. Sorry if anyone has been trying to message me on there, I don’t think I’ve logged on for the past two months or so.
With the basics covered though, in true G&W fashion, I want to divulge my reasonings for leaving in further detail because I know whenever long time members leave without saying much there’s always an underlying lack of closure that follows. That said, this next section might be a bit long and rambly, so all the important bits are up there ^ already and I don’t expect people to read further unless they’re curious.
As I stated earlier, I hadn’t expected my silent absence to go on for as long as it did. In fact, during that block of time I did attempt to write some posts, I still have one in a word document that’s mostly complete that I’ve yet to post. Normally I write multiple posts in a row after I have such long slumps of inactivity and that often gives me the passion and energy to do more and boosts my overall activity around the site, but not this time. It wasn’t a matter of me questioning the post’s quality that refrained me from posting it, it was just the lack of passion I had behind it and so many posts before it.
That’s not to say that my interest in the site has waned, I have considered other plotlines I wanted to explore during my absence and I still get excited about their prospects whenever I think deeply on them. This is far from the first time I’ve left the site though, and one of my previous reasons had to do with my frustrations with generally the way that roleplaying is structured. I came back knowing full well that this would probably be an issue that would spring up sometime down the line. I’ve always tried to keep my thread count to a minimum for two reasons, one: I didn’t want to delay too many threads during my busier seasons and two: if a day like today came, the impact radius wouldn’t be too great.
That said, nothing makes me happier than to see this place thrive without me. Many points in this site’s history there was very little standing between me and this place just vanishing into the Proboards graveyard of roleplaying sites. I’m glad that this place has amassed a tight-knit community where people can bond over their love of video games and roleplaying. My greatest regret of the past year was not getting to know (or roleplaying with) the members that joined in more recent years. I’m kind of a social recluse by nature, so I’m not sure how well that could’ve been avoided.
Anyways, my reasons for leaving are not strictly singular, if it was strictly my gripes with roleplaying I wouldn’t have stuck around for as long as I did. I’m also entering a new stage in life since I just recently graduated from University. While it would have been a smarter idea to plot out a direction for my career while I was in school, I’m trying to work that out now. So, there’s a lot of uncertainty in what I’m going to be doing in the near future and I have no idea how much time I would have to dedicate toward the site. I’d rather give official word of the status of my activity than to leave people hanging based on my own uncertainties.
That’s not to say that my interest in the site has waned, I have considered other plotlines I wanted to explore during my absence and I still get excited about their prospects whenever I think deeply on them. This is far from the first time I’ve left the site though, and one of my previous reasons had to do with my frustrations with generally the way that roleplaying is structured. I came back knowing full well that this would probably be an issue that would spring up sometime down the line. I’ve always tried to keep my thread count to a minimum for two reasons, one: I didn’t want to delay too many threads during my busier seasons and two: if a day like today came, the impact radius wouldn’t be too great.
That said, nothing makes me happier than to see this place thrive without me. Many points in this site’s history there was very little standing between me and this place just vanishing into the Proboards graveyard of roleplaying sites. I’m glad that this place has amassed a tight-knit community where people can bond over their love of video games and roleplaying. My greatest regret of the past year was not getting to know (or roleplaying with) the members that joined in more recent years. I’m kind of a social recluse by nature, so I’m not sure how well that could’ve been avoided.
Anyways, my reasons for leaving are not strictly singular, if it was strictly my gripes with roleplaying I wouldn’t have stuck around for as long as I did. I’m also entering a new stage in life since I just recently graduated from University. While it would have been a smarter idea to plot out a direction for my career while I was in school, I’m trying to work that out now. So, there’s a lot of uncertainty in what I’m going to be doing in the near future and I have no idea how much time I would have to dedicate toward the site. I’d rather give official word of the status of my activity than to leave people hanging based on my own uncertainties.
Regardless, I leave the site in the very capable hands of its staff members, special apology to Shadow/Wolf because it seems I always leave not too long after he returns, which I swear is completely coincidental. I won’t say this is my final goodbye, considering that this has to be my third or fourth ‘farewell’ thread, but until the next time, see y’all around the interwebz.
