Posted by Deliverer of Harsh Reality on April 12, 2000 at 03:24:21:
In Reply to: Thank you posted by Simply Happy on April 11, 2000 at 21:03:33:
Would you thank someone for framing you, getting you sent to jail for a few years, those years wasted? That is what a MUD does to those who abuse their real lives and those around them to satisfy their addictive lust for this text-based game.
> To Scarabaeus, for returning.
I thought he was cured. I was, unfortunately, wrong.
> To the other Imms, for putting up with the crap.
There is no need to thank them for putting up with the crap. A MUD is a two way street: without them it wouldn't exist, without the players it wouldn't exist. A MUD is not only what the Immortals make it, it is what the player base makes it.
> To all the Imms, for making this easily the most addictive, playable, fun, amazing, near-godlike experience known to man.
Is it though? Is it really worth the drop in your GPA? Spending years more than required to pass a course, settling for a job you used have nightmares about before you were introduced to this text-based game? Is it really worth flushing yourself down the social pipeline, abandoning friends to have them do the same? Is it really worth putting an hour/a day of MUD'ing over a day spent actually achieving something?
> The players, good and bad, who make Cf what it is.
> I've tried the VR, the online crap, everything...and for some ungodly reason, nothing satisfies like a pipe full of crack. Er, I mean, a night full of CF.
Try a night spent with someone you love, your girlfriend/boyfriend. There is no comparison.
> Thanks to all of you who are CF. Be you idiots or geniuses, you make CF what it is...utterly addictive and completely immersible.
I can only wish you luck and hope it doesn't take you 4 years to realise what hit me a few months back.
> Keep it up, brothers, I'm with ya.
I wish for your sake you weren't. Try finding some of "Masta Girl's" posts from a year or so ago. She expresses herself and the situation you are in, in much more detail.