(06-05-2015, 08:51 PM)Mae Wrote: (Purists are probably going to nitpick that I'm going to tell this story/joke wrong. I don't care, the message I'm trying to convey is there)
A man was taking a cruise on a ship. He was up on deck, alone, in the middle of the night and slipped overboard. No-one saw him fall, and the ship sailed out of sight.
"Please, God! Save me!" The man prayed. The man tread water for an hour, and then a Coast Guard boat arrived. They tried to pull him on deck, but he resisted.
"No! God will save me!" And the Coast Guard boat left.
The man tread water for another hour, and a Navy rescue helicopter arrived. They sent down one of those platforms for the man to climb onto so they could hoist him to safety, but he refused to get on it.
"God will save me!" And the Navy rescue helicopter left.
The man continued to tread water, refusing help from fishing boats, shipping barges, and tankers that passed by. Hours and hours passed before, exhausted, the man drowned. When he arrived in Heaven, the man stormed up to God.
"Why didn't you save me?!"
And God looked at the man.
"... Who do you think sent the Coast Guard, Navy helicopter, the fishing boats, the shipping barges, and that oil tanker?"
This is the relationship that some of us who were there when this thread was originally posted had with the author. Someone who came to the community on a couple occasions asking for help, but either didn't put in much effort (look at the posting dates) or snubbed those who reached out. And then sort of turned around and blamed the community.
It's fine that people want to discuss that it's sometimes hard to break into RP. And it's fine that people want to offer advice to help others break into RP. It's just that those who are aware of the actual context of the OP would rather see this particular thread fall into obscurity and not be necro'd.Â
That's all.
Good joke. Everybody laugh.
No, seriously, it's a great analogy, and I get that the dude who started this thread is probably just some bratty dickhead.
But we've completely left him in the dust. He's no longer relevant to the conversation about new RPers looking for friends. At this point, he's more the exception than the rule. I get why no one who tried to help this dingdong wants to see his thread brought up again, but I don't know what to tell you. We're here, we're conversing, and it was going pretty well until it became a conversation about the reason for the conversation.
If we're being honest, this could be moved to another thread. But I'm very lazy and only partially interested in this to begin with, and I'm already here.
