I'm not sure why there has to be a middle. It might just be my pride speaking as someone who entered the community without knowing nearly anyone and having seemed to have carved my niche out, but no one met me in the middle. Making connections is about making them. There's a lot of ways to do that, but the people who are speaking up about it are the ones who did it themselves.
There seem to be two camps at discussion here: The folks not meeting new people for some reason and the folks who met new people by going out and meeting new people.
If anything, my personal failing is that a lot of new people simply don't interest me. My stories tend to be fairly tight and poorly established to allow new names in. I can't do anything for them, they can't do anything for me, so besides advertising my event (That's The Grindstone, every Saturday night at 10PM EST at Fesca's Wash in Central Thanalan!) and helping clarify questions or lore or stuff, I don't have much to offer.
Nobody is going to climb the mountain for anyone else, and so far the only people speaking up are the ones who went out with their own picks.
Also, calling people "the populars" sounds like some high school clique shit.
There seem to be two camps at discussion here: The folks not meeting new people for some reason and the folks who met new people by going out and meeting new people.
If anything, my personal failing is that a lot of new people simply don't interest me. My stories tend to be fairly tight and poorly established to allow new names in. I can't do anything for them, they can't do anything for me, so besides advertising my event (That's The Grindstone, every Saturday night at 10PM EST at Fesca's Wash in Central Thanalan!) and helping clarify questions or lore or stuff, I don't have much to offer.
Nobody is going to climb the mountain for anyone else, and so far the only people speaking up are the ones who went out with their own picks.
Also, calling people "the populars" sounds like some high school clique shit.
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