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I avoid saying this, but I don't buy that people are online their max amount of time. I don't even want to do this because of people, but because it's a better system. But while we're on that subject, I have poured hours of my life into this, and have stretched myself farther than I probably should have in order to add grease to the wheels. I have broken rules, sneaked tech, and otherwise did what I wasn't supposed to do in order to be here for everyone. And now where are we? I'm on all day and get maybe twenty posts. People give the excuse that they're "busy," but that inherently implies that I'm not. None of you know my life, but I'm constantly busy, stressed, and working on four things at once, but I always make time for you all because I love everyone here and this adventure we participate in. I give time I don't have to something I don't need, but it's worth it to me because I get a push back from everyone. If others are willing to participate, I will sacrifice whatever I have to; I turned down potential for hundreds of thousands of dollars because it had a high probability of ripping me away from MR. But when it seems like nobody puts in nearly as much effort as I do, it gets really discouraging. I don't want to be a part of a one-man show. I want to be a part of MR.
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And I ignored classes in order to be a part, a large factor of why I was behind by a year and a half. 

This is why Whizz leaving makes me care less about it. MR isn't just three people sitting around all day rping. The last time it was that it was a pony rp. MR is a notable group building stories together. We've lost three people already. We lost another for a long time but they're back. We're now down to six people. Two and likely soon to be four have rigid schedules to adhere to or their quality of life could be affected. All those things you did, you did as a highschooler. Everyone was avoiding obstacles as highschoolers. Now everyone has to do it as adults, and it's not the same thing. If you weren't working from home then your time here would be cut to just as low as some of the others. When four of the six people involved only have a limited amount of free time and have other things to do during it, it's not surprising that they don't show up as much as they could. Is it worth having interaction if the quality drops? Because you've been clear on your position that the ooc isn't as important, so would you rather have them spend their time in the ic where they're worn out or busy and can't contribute what they otherwise could? Personally, I'd rather have interaction in the ooc than bad interaction in the ic, and I've been acting on that preference since I came back. 
Trust me, I know how you feel. This same thing has hit me multiple times already, and I can all but promise it hit me harder. MR has been different since the moment we left ifunny, and it's only going to get more different. We can either accept it's changing and try to change with it or we can try to fight it and just feel worse. The adult world is not as free as the child world. Even if people aren't here as much as they can be, I trust them to have a good enough reason for it, even though I wish they were here more. I don't accept the reason for Whizz leaving, but I trust him to mean it when he says it's a good enough reason to him, and he was the most active person other than you. I actively check the OOC almost constantly while I'm awake, but I avoid the IC because we've kind of burnt out, and I don't want to give low quality posts when I'm not in the mindset to write well. Every time I am, everyone's already in bed or away, you included. This isn't something that just you are experiencing or that only you can complain about. Trying to change the format to be more similar to how it was when it started isn't going to solve anything. Not only that, but it could easily make things worse. It was hard to change into an rp format and quality drastically changed in the process. It'll be equally hard and equally as devastating to try to change it back. I know you're just trying to help and to cause MR to get better, but that's not a way to do it.