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[@DarkwolfX37]

MR is a notable group building stories together. 

At an accelerated pace. It's not worth it if it takes a month to do a fight.

Now everyone has to do it as adults

College students.

If you weren't working from home then your time here would be cut to just as low as some of the others.

No, I just refuse to take jobs that will block me from MR. You underestimate my devotion.

Personally, I'd rather have interaction in the ooc than bad interaction in the ic

We have nothing to talk about in the OOC anymore.

and I can all but promise it hit me harder

You don't know what I think.

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

This isn't an independent mechanism. It relies on us, the players, and changes according to what we make it do.

The adult world is not as free as the child world.

It's as free as you make it. You may be out of high school, but you're self-employed. You don't have to go to a job and have as much experience as me in this.

I don't accept the reason for Whizz leaving

Give it a month.

IC because we've kind of burnt out

"we"

equally hard and equally as devastating to try to change it back

That depends on the reasons for changing it. You can't play catchup, but you can push ahead.

cause MR to get better, but that's not a way to do it

I'm not doing it to solve the current problem. I'm doing it to make what we have better, which isn't the same thing at all. You don't even know the system.
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"This isn't an independent mechanism. It relies on us, the players, and changes according to what we make it do." If the time scale changes because we can't be on all day every day anymore, so be it. 

College students are adults. They participate in the adult world, not the child world. 

Yes, but you can afford to have that stance. Not everyone here can.

That's because nobody tries to. Everyone other than me seems to have silently decided that the ooc is only needed to expound on the ic. I consider everyone involved a friend, I have no qualms with people venting their problems here, talking about their day, or just having random conversations like you would if you were in person. 

Hence why I didn't say "I can guarantee," but rather "all but promise." 

We aren't independent mechanisms. We rely on other people and the world around us, and change according to them. We are no different than MR in that respect. MR is a product of not just us, but everything we are a product of, and those things can be more demanding than would allow us to do as much as we'd all like for MR. 

It's not free at all. I'm out of high school, and the only reason I don't have a job that takes me away from MR is because I literally could not handle it because of my mental disorders. I'm on disability, and if I weren't I wouldn't be able to live a life where I could have anything even approaching comfort. I'm physically unable to do what would be required of someone to earn enough money to live, given the increased costs that I have to pay for things to live with the very disabilities that prevent me from working for that support. I live with a single mother who doesn't make enough to support two people with relatively comfortable lifestyles. We have nothing left over from each paycheck, and that's including the disability I get that goes directly towards things I need to live a semblance of a normal life. If I were in an even slightly different position, I wouldn't be able to live above the poverty line. The only reason I'm able to live where I do is because it's where my mom works and we get free rent because of it, otherwise we'd be living in an even smaller apartment and be struggling even harder to get by. The freedom of the adult world I have comes at a high cost, and luckily nobody else here has to pay it, but that means they don't get the same freedom. You have freedom in the adult world because your parents can support you and you're skilled enough to at least attempt to earn further resources while maintaining a lot of free time. Not everyone can do that. Most people in the adult world don't have as much freedom as you or I do, and what someone has only gets lesser as they get further through the transition between the worlds. 

No comment. 

You're right, it's not "we," it's "you." I burnt out two years ago, but just look at the current story lines. We have the stereotypical "living swords of immense power," "special magics that there are only certain people who can use and they must earn mastery so they can beat someone really good at magic," and whatever Sven is doing, which I don't know because every time I try to read posts that are part of it I can't even keep focus on them. I'd be a lot more active if I still had the creativity levels to think up entire universes with new rules of physics, new species with their own biologies and interpersonal relationships, and adventures for them to be a part of all in a matter of minutes or hours, but I can't seem to do that anymore. Three years ago I could have written the entirety of Dark's rise to power in three days, and now it's been more than that and I'm not even a tenth done. Eventually ideas run out and give way to stereotypes, and only new inspiration can remedy that, which isn't something we can control. 

No, it doesn't. The very change itself is what is devastating, not the reasoning for the change.  

Then separate the two so you don't give the impression that you think one naturally leads into the other.