You know, I never thought I would be the first one to go. I thought storm would go inactive at some point, seeing as how he blusters about being grown up or mature or something like that. I thought he would be the one to grow up. Well, enough about him. Frick storm. He doesn’t control me, and I don’t control him. Scratch is great, and I’m glad to have been here. I might come back now and again, to check up on you all. Not logging back into here though. Not worth the trouble. I’ll wait a few more days before I initiate the shutdown on my account, so I can say my goodbyes to all of you in a more timely manner than Kal did. I at least owe scratch that much. Comm, that means you too. I feel like I have known you for so long and yet not known you at all. Some day I’ll fly to Washington and we can talk about minis or school or something. Or not. Your choice. I owe you one. THC. ThatHammerKind. You’ll never read this. I know that, and I don’t blame you. Keep going, mate. Unironically one of if not the single best game designer and programmer in scratch. I only wish I had the patience to play more than half your projects. Perry, you got off easy. Better to have a bucket of water dumped over your head than choose to tiptoe into the hypothermic water yourself. The first option is easier, for one. To bubble: you’ll know when it’s time to go. I imagine you will have a much easier time letting go than I did. Until then, keep it up. I never expected that the social institution of RD teams or the mil or whatever tf we want to call it now would keep going this long. I owe you one too. Mint. Man, I wish I knew you better. Well, I suppose I was never as active, or really as scandalous as some of the other faces I knew here. I spent most of my time swimming in a swamp of inactivity, and other than calling storm on his BS or stepping in to help lead one of the studios now and again, I never really did anything much to cause drama. I hope you have a good life. It was a privilege to know you, even if it wasn't very well.
Why I choose to leave: I’ll never forget the memories, but at the end of the day, that’s all they are, memories. Every time I come back here, I go through the same process again and again. Check on the TEF. Check on Comm. Check on the storm, to see if I should poke it with a stick again. Visit Kalosyni’s grave. Always the same, again and again and again. I don’t feel the magic of it anymore. It all feels so flat. Add on to it the fact that at the end of the day we are all just trying to forget that the intended age bracket for this website tops out at about twelve years of age and it ends up feeling worse each time I visit. For my own selfish benefit as much as anyone else’s, I need to let scratch rest. It’s better as memories through Mechanicus Red tinted goggles. I had my times, and now I can be content to remember them and be at peace, instead of trying to reanimate a corpse that’s already been resurrected and shot dead again several times over.
