What does it say about my life that I relish the time I spend in the dome, and that I get truly upset when people preform bad rp. I mean I have a good life, right? Girlfriend I think I love, good job (engineer) that pays well, friends, family, all the rest of that crap, and yet I would trade it all in a heartbeat for life as we've created in the dome. Is it the technology of the future that is the draw, or the escape from my reality that I despise. I don;t think I'm alone when I talk about the dome as almost a part of me, it is definitely a part of my life, although I only log in while at work (50-70 hours a week). When will I decide that I should log in at home also, and up my weekly dosage of dome to something like 100 hours. Yes people will say that Astro isn't the most active character in the dome, but how many of you are here at 7:00 pst every weekday? Why is it that every day I wake and go to work, to do a job that I find I am very capable of doing, and yet my overall level of ambition to do that job, and do it well, is based on the email that came while I was home the preceding night, and the actions I encounter in teh dome during the day. I mean I have goals, right, we all do. Yet, I look at the goals I have for myslef and sometimes I just say, why? or why are those things so important? Is it justifiable to spend 70 hours a week at work, when my girlfriend is on another continent, and I'm located 2000 miles from my friends? I've always answered taht question with a resounding yes. Yet sometimes I wonder, why do we do this, why do we begin to torment ourselves with our lives in the dome, lives that I think a lot of us would love to have. So what if I have to keep from having Casey shoot me in the back, or look over my shoulder for Red level gangers. In that life, we hav constant danger, filled with something so different from our sacharine, PC, effiminized maniliness that is being forced on us as though it is an integral part of Americanization. We life would you choose, and what does that say about you and our culture?
What is our culture? Have you looked closely at the inhabitants of the dome? So few of us are the stereotypical computer nerds. (not that that is bad.) More of us (irl)are renaissance figures, athletic, educated and fairly worldy. We form our culture in the dome, full of ic development, yet many of us spend a phenomanal amount of time talking OOC to our 'friends' that we have come to know through our rp. DO we have a culture irl? Undoubtledly you would have to say yes, although we would be hard pressed to name any of the individuals in our culture with out using there ic names. (which is fine.) Yes, we have oour culture, yet none of us (baring admins, maybe) have met irl. we have formed this group of people, a congregation, that follows what happens in our fantasy world more closely than we follow current world events.
(GOD DAMN WORK INTERRUPTING ME WHEN I'M WRITING.)
With all of that said, I guess I have ranted enough for today. I apologize for any spelling errors I have made.
