h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hey, Indefatigable. I thought you said you'd be online on weekends?

Btw, 'Princess Mononoke' r0x!

And you've been posting to 'Opinions on Corsets' all week! Hey, don't you like us anymore? If you're confused, here's a clue: http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/F65214?thread=126384

I'm really sorry about this. When I haven't been busy this week I've been too tired to be creative, I guess. I have the same problem when I try to write fiction.

Before you say anything, I can debate and argue and philosophise when I'm tired, it's just creativity that I have a problem with. That's why I've been posting in other threads. Please don't be offended. I'm not snubbing you guys or anything.

I'm noticing, though, that you guys just go a mile a minute, and there's no way I can post often enough to keep up. I log in and start reading, and I think, "Cool, here's what I'm going to do--" but then it turns out that there's a whole lot more thread than that, and the situation has actually been long over by the time I got there. As I said in the FFFF, if it would be easier for me to just drop out of the game, I will. I've tried many times to play online RPGs, and I always have this problem. I can't even geek properly...

Aww, you poor thing...

Personally, I can always be creative, at least when it comes to role-playing. I can't argue when I'm tired. I always philosophise. No, I mean it, constantly.

Oh well. I always feel bad when losing players. It harks back to the olden days (yeah right ) when I was the Dungeon Master (or whatever) for a Play by E-Mail game. Argh, I always felt so guilty when I wasn't constantly writing about the cool stuff that was happening in my cool world in which the cool PCs did cool stuff. And I felt even more depressed when someone just disappeared without a trace. Why did he leave? Was he p***ed off at another player whose PC had been mean to his PC? Did he think the game was boring? I am never offended by stuff like this, I just feel a great loss. To me, it seems like there are these really cool people everywhere who can write and act through writing -- and when they do it together, all sorts of cool things happen. The creativity rubs off and creates some kind of positive feedback loop where everyone writes cooler/funnier stuff all the time.

In short, I love role-playing, and I hate it when players leave.

I was trying *not* to leave, because I really did want to play for a while, but I just haven't been inspired. The one really successful RPG I can remember was a real-time freeform MUCK thing. We'd been planning it for a week, so I was ready for it, and it worked out really well.