BarTek wrote:
I mean elma takes away your:
1. sleep
2. regular diet(?)
3. time for school stuff
4. job(?)
5. calmness (give you stress during wcupes for ex.)
6. TV
7. famil, girlfreind (boyfreind?) and freinds maybe
1.not anymore, did earlier
2.not at all
3.ye, but not much these days
4. don´t have one
5.I don´t get stressed over elma anymore. I am probably the most patient person in Denmark
6. Nope, it still runs in the background once in a while
7. I share elma with my brothetr ( rigger ). Don´t have GF, and friends are ok with it
But I would like to emphasize my views on this matter, haing been around so long
I remember in the beginning. Elma was new and the thrill of just doing a volt was cool. Then came record-breaking and tt höyl. I did that a long time.. three years I think.. at least
Back then I could stay up and play half the night. I could skip homework to play, and was as hooked as you can get on any drug. At the time you didn´t notice it at all, you just had fun. There was no greater sensation than making a new personal best.. or even a dk-rec if you were lucky/persistent enough in your höyling.
In reality my grades, especially in math slipped a bit. My girlfriend felt a bit neglected and I lost much sleep sometimes.
The sensation of making a personal best is still sweet, after more than 5 years of playing elma/across .. when you think about it, its really insane. The amount of time I have devoted to this game, be it playing, checking homepages, updating my own homepage, speaking/idling on elmarelated-IRCchannels and gazing/writing here is pretty overwhelming. It is by far the most time-consuming hobby I have ever had.
As time has passed my usage of the game has changed. These days I don´t play internals at all. I still love to watch replays of them, but playing them is over for the time being ( and I suspect forever ). Now most of the time I spend with elma is on ircchannels, checking moposite, mopolauta and updating my page. I participate in different contests and packs and have fun with that.
I know that I am addicted to this game, but more importantly I am addicted to the SCENE. When I sit down at a computer I always have to check moposite and/or lauta. I have tried to cut back on my time spent on IRC, and I have partially succeeded. Yet, I can´t let it go
.. I almost always have to have mIRC open.
I haven´t yet begun to think of retiring. I still love the scene but being around as long as I have I can tell you that elma is truly a drug.
To emphazise this I can give you a little examble from just talking on #elma yesterday.
Raider has more or less retired, yet he tried a little multiplayer with a new kuski at his school. They made a few recs. Now he was a bit nervous if he would be dragged in again, because the sensation of seeing the "BEST TIME" almost made his fingers itch.. Its THAT addictive ( He said it partially jokingly, but it had a large part of truth in it )
the game is addictive, the scene is addictive and Lucifer must have thoughtup this grand sceme ... Thank God he did
GuyB[rdk]