Dear oh Dear oh Dear. What have I done? *hangs head in shame*
MY first reaction when I saw the replies to my post was shock. Absolute shock. I had no idea of the hate and anger that I would cause with this stupidity, and I thoroughly regret posting it in the first place. I apologise to all the writers on story hour for my demeaning and insulting comments and hope you can forgive me.
I still cant figure out why I made that first post, but I know that frustration/anger and boredom were each a major factor. At the time I was looking for some instant gratification reading and couldnt find anything appropriate, only rather long and complex pieces of writing which I was in no mood to read. This annoyed me, so I decided to voice my annoyance by saying what I was looking for in a story hour. Unfortunately this turned out to be quite an idiotic and patrnosing rant that hurt the feelings of many people. Phrases such as "wading through garbage" and the like, were totally unecesarry and I only really put them in for my own amusement, not thinking that people would take offence by it.
Maybe in my sub conscious mind I was looking for a flame war. Maybe this was just an outlet for some pent up anger. What you feel on the inside can cloud your logic and reasoning, and it is clear that neither of these were displayed in my outburst.
I cant be bothered going through each and every thing I said, and im sure you couldnt be bothered reading it. Either way, the whole post was stupid, and non of the "suggestions" I made had relevance to any piece of writing more advanced than a year 5 "What I did last summer" essay, as jonrog put it. So please just ignore it all.
Of course story hours wont take place in a conventional form. And it would be impossible not to include character and campaign backgrounds. I dont know if I realised beforehand that these things were an integral part of the story themselves, or had just forgotten. But it dosent really matter now.
*sigh*
The stupid thing is I get a lot out of enworld and despite what the post said, I do get a lot of enjoyment from story hour. Many are really high quality and very interesting to read. But I must have been reading them in the wrong mindset or something when I made that post. Sorry to the ruined one for making him look like the psychiatrist who has a madman obsessed with him, but I needed an example at the time and that was the most recent thing I read.
Im fairly new to D&D but ive been DM for a few games and have been working on a campaign lately. I get a lot of enjoyment creating the world and storyline etc, and in this empty life I lead, it is possibly the only thing that gives me any satisfaction. Maybe I might write a story hour of my own and put it up, and if so I would too be hurt if someone made comments such as mine.
Once again im deeply sorry for what I wrote. But keep in mind I never specifcally attacked anyone, I hate you all equally
except theRuinedOne, who I worship.
That last bit was a joke, sorry.
I know my actions have annoyed a lot of people, and I just hope you all dont hate me for what I said. I would like to be a part of the story hour community because I share with you guys a madness....sorry, passion for using the imagination. I dont expect people to not hold anything against me, but it would be nice.
Thankyou for listening.
PS I tried to reply to this earlier but the schools internet was down and by the time It went on again the thread had been closed. Sorry about making another one.
MY first reaction when I saw the replies to my post was shock. Absolute shock. I had no idea of the hate and anger that I would cause with this stupidity, and I thoroughly regret posting it in the first place. I apologise to all the writers on story hour for my demeaning and insulting comments and hope you can forgive me.
I still cant figure out why I made that first post, but I know that frustration/anger and boredom were each a major factor. At the time I was looking for some instant gratification reading and couldnt find anything appropriate, only rather long and complex pieces of writing which I was in no mood to read. This annoyed me, so I decided to voice my annoyance by saying what I was looking for in a story hour. Unfortunately this turned out to be quite an idiotic and patrnosing rant that hurt the feelings of many people. Phrases such as "wading through garbage" and the like, were totally unecesarry and I only really put them in for my own amusement, not thinking that people would take offence by it.
Maybe in my sub conscious mind I was looking for a flame war. Maybe this was just an outlet for some pent up anger. What you feel on the inside can cloud your logic and reasoning, and it is clear that neither of these were displayed in my outburst.
I cant be bothered going through each and every thing I said, and im sure you couldnt be bothered reading it. Either way, the whole post was stupid, and non of the "suggestions" I made had relevance to any piece of writing more advanced than a year 5 "What I did last summer" essay, as jonrog put it. So please just ignore it all.
Of course story hours wont take place in a conventional form. And it would be impossible not to include character and campaign backgrounds. I dont know if I realised beforehand that these things were an integral part of the story themselves, or had just forgotten. But it dosent really matter now.
*sigh*
The stupid thing is I get a lot out of enworld and despite what the post said, I do get a lot of enjoyment from story hour. Many are really high quality and very interesting to read. But I must have been reading them in the wrong mindset or something when I made that post. Sorry to the ruined one for making him look like the psychiatrist who has a madman obsessed with him, but I needed an example at the time and that was the most recent thing I read.
Im fairly new to D&D but ive been DM for a few games and have been working on a campaign lately. I get a lot of enjoyment creating the world and storyline etc, and in this empty life I lead, it is possibly the only thing that gives me any satisfaction. Maybe I might write a story hour of my own and put it up, and if so I would too be hurt if someone made comments such as mine.
Once again im deeply sorry for what I wrote. But keep in mind I never specifcally attacked anyone, I hate you all equally
except theRuinedOne, who I worship. That last bit was a joke, sorry.
I know my actions have annoyed a lot of people, and I just hope you all dont hate me for what I said. I would like to be a part of the story hour community because I share with you guys a madness....sorry, passion for using the imagination. I dont expect people to not hold anything against me, but it would be nice.
Thankyou for listening.
PS I tried to reply to this earlier but the schools internet was down and by the time It went on again the thread had been closed. Sorry about making another one.
