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[Eclipse]

From me to you

[WhiteGulls]

I am forced to agree with Sean's statement. Being a teen, I used to suffer from "everyone else is a moron" syndrome. How ever, when I started talking in the chat room, I realised that, if you look in the right places, there are WONDERFUL people out there! Amazing people! Strange songs, scratchy voices... umm... ^_^;;;

But, yes, this has helped to reaffirm my faith in humanity, for a good amount. With all due luck, it'll stay that way, this time.

So, like the above said, thanks, everyone!
(possible longer post coming soon)

[thebruce]

taking from a different thread..

you know you're addicted to ILB when...
you take notice every couple of weeks when there hasn't been a reflective generic 'thank you' thread or post, and decide to reignite the memories of community and family forged in this epic adventure.

...and it doesn't get old

...and you naturally feel you need to echo previous sentiments of posts before you... hehe

thanks for an awesome first ARG, everyone involved - players and PMs alike! this experience will never be forgotten...


*~* unforgettable, that's what you are. Unforgettable, though near or far *~*

[archon]

Maybe I'm just some cold hearted son of a bitch, but I was a fairly regular phone grabber and did some speculation on the story and generally participated on a somewhat significant level with the game (schedule permitting), and I really don't get this whole outpouring of affection that goes between everyone here. Yeah, I like everyone and it's good to come back and talk sometimes and the game was fun (especially for it being free!!!), but really... it was a game. A fun game, absolutely, but this whole "reaffirming belief in humanity" thing that I keep seeing thrown around is a little bizarre to me. I mean, is everyone so jaded that it takes a game to make them realize that everyone is human? Is this a reflection on hardcore internet guys like us, or people at large?

I don't mean this to come off as an attack on anyone (not even you Eclipse), but I'd really like to understand why this feeling of camaraderie has sprung up. Was it just the teamwork involved in the game or something?

[water10]

I believe most lurkers that came out of the closet, like myself and Eclipse, never felt totally part of the community, until the end. It was certainly not the community's fault, but our own!

But the worst thing about ex-lurkers is that we look back and we feel we missed a lot of cool stuff! And to make matters worse, it was our own fault! So, we certainly look forward to future opportunities to redeem ourselves and be more active on the community!

Eclipse, if I'm way off, let me know!

[Eclipse]

You are right on

[DreamOfTheRood]

[cheebers]

[INCyr]

[archon]

[krystyn]

I think there was a lot of justified frustration over those phones. Logistically, it was a total nightmare for the puppetmasters. For us, it started to look a lot like work.

If we didn't care or have affection at some basic level for this game, we likely wouldn't have gotten as frustrated as we did. That's something I have to re-learn about myself all the time - why am I getting so upset about something? Does being angry really mean that I absolutely devalue and hate the experience I am angry about, or does it mean that I have a certain level of investment, and am wishing desperately for it to turn out alright? As The Pretenders said ... it's a thin line ...

In some ways, I feel sort of badly for some of the grousing I did over the endless weeks of phones - a little bit here, a little more in the IRC channels. But, knowing what I know now, and knowing that games don't need to be perfect for me to have a good time, I am OK with my grousing, and I am sure the PMs did the best they could to take it in the best light possible.

The PMs managed to take their game design and turn it on end in response to the way we played it. I find that terribly exciting and cool, and speaks well of the nature of ARGs in general, and of all the people involved. Especially us!

I dunno. Just like boys chasing girls around on the playground pulling their pigtails is most likely a sign of a crush, our angst over phones germinated through our hopes and expectations based on The Widow's Journey, a slowly-evolving radio play, and the tortured brokenness of an A.I. from the future.






Or, this could just all be a really severe case of Stockholm Syndrome ...

[krystyn]

[water10]

[Clayfoot]

[INCyr]