Just dissapointed.
Donovan Thomas
(It's a long read. Say whatever you want in the comments, but read the damn thing and quote it proper please.)
Do you know what it takes these days to get me to open up the old paper and type? I have to be either more drunk, or more stoned than I have been in years. Or I have to be pissed off.
Tonight I have a double Jameson and a nice dark San Diego Porter (Ballast Point Victory at Sea for any purveyors). But I am clear headed, and wide awake as my old mentor and friend Grainne used to say.
I'm neither drunk nor stoned tonight. I'm angry.
See, I was apathetic. I stopped caring. Numerous reasons, but mostly because I came back to find all my old friends were either dead or stopped caring. My new friends are pretty cool. Some of them are really good at this game, but some times (a lot of times) things get lost in Google translation and it just gets more hard than it should be.
The craic just aint here... there's no "Oh yeahhhhhh" in my day of eRep.
Then you have your little pains in the ass. Colin Fox and I settled up in pm's. Turns our I understand the guy even if I don't care for his style. WHS? I honestly can't be arsed to bother with him anymore. Zero substance, no action, only whiny complaints and ten second wiki searches. Frankly I would not be surprised if he was an American eighth grader. Raven? Probably a 40 year old angry married neighbor of mine. At least that's the taste she/he gives off. Stale cigs and chardonnay.
Hell, these days I'm AGREEING with the Krakken. W...T...F... right?
But it's all a damn game... But a game no one seems to give a flip about playing.
Take this wet sock puppet Kuthesh... I was told "He's a good guy" I'm not angry. I'm disappointed. He takes none of this seriously and is making jokes left and right about how he ripped up off. Excuse upon excuse, blame and chuckle. Cute little screen shots about me sucking Don Croata's balls... "Defending himself" with hyperbolic statements...
He's doing everything but anything for this country.
And when I look around...
No one but the people I have already thrown in with seem to give two perfect no wipe shits.
At this point I know I won't get my 20kcc back. Who gives a shit? I'm a grown up who never needs to work again... I play, and when I pay, I do it for fun.
But it's not fun. And in the end... there are no Irish here anymore.
Some will focus on the last line. I am first generation American. I had FUN here with the Beta and Alpha crew... Connecting with my ethnic background was a big part of me choosing this spot.
I REALLY like The CrΩmega bunch. They ARE a family. Some damn talented people at that... people who care.
But I'm not... having... fun.
Are you?
That is what this is about.
Cheers.
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Kuthesh,
I was gonna screenshot all that crap you said... just like you said I would. Then I realized how little I really care about you and your little half a second of being important. Go ahead son, burn it down, piss on it, brag about it to the other kids in your class or at your job. If it's that important to you, you probably need to feel good about yourself way more than I need make a witty comment. I hope you get what you need.
But you could be a man instead. Not a braggart, a loudmouth, a punk finally getting to stand on top.
You could fess up to the shitshow you have given us all and ask for help. You could show humility before your fellow man and use the twenty or so days you have left to save your reputation, time and effort you've put into this. I don't think you will. But I hope I'm wrong.
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Hey man... I came in MAD... I left Meh... 🙂
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"Don't hate the player, hate the game".
The game we all started playing 5-6 years ago has had more work done to it than Joan Rivers. Unfortunately, ever since V1 took off, this pile of rubbish was always going to be the end product. The game needed capital investment to continue paying server costs & salaries, it needed to enhance its revenue generating capabilities in return for that investment and in that effort has had its political & economical modules downgraded and it's military module turned into something that's highly competitive.
This version of eRepublik has limited appeal to the same types of players that made it so popular in the first place. The only people who want to play it as much as we once did are all button bashers from former Soviet block countries. It can't be played the old way anymore.
Compare the debates & quarrels we would of had back in the day with the likes of Grainne, IrishBhoy & Dubhtaigh and compare them to the current ones we're having with WHS... Instant ramification of this drop in standard.
The sad part is you're absolutely right. I feel like I started dating an ex who I knew was crazy and I'm trying to justify it.
Didn't I read somewhere that crazy sex was awesome?
One needs to be objective dc is not always right but he is not wrong always either. Same goes whs. Their just backing the wrong horse atm. It will blow up in their face in the future. Deapatrick is a rl irish. Nogin the nog and boudicca as well whs is rl irish living in the usa. Crosseye andothers as well. The little k* party was started by Dc about 2 years back. Hence the k name stuck. I latter invented orcs and with vik kurgan made it a prominent description. Players like kuthesh will come and go. I wouldn't make any decisions over them. After he is gone we will just restart the old thing. Government funds is needed but not a game changer. Unfortunately erep support a third world view of it where they can grab ur money because money belongs to the cp/dictator.
Sounded like poetry.
Well written and well said o7
I miss the old days too. Run for CP again, would be a good month.
I'd vote for him
What Hank said.
This is a masterpiece Donovan, really enjoyed reading it...
You poetry touched me... I drown in tears.
o/
o7
This article brings back those old memories in the game and I missed the old politics of tearing each other a new one 😛
You are okay
I'm really disappointed that I didnt find this game a lot sooner, when it was something people got passionate about, and people didn't dare fuck with that