Nothing ever happens.
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bit of a downer post? idk
before i add a poll i wanna say, ao is cool sometimes, it’s an interesting concept and i like parts of it. but the current state makes it hard to maintain interest in it + it’s grown to become more of a hassle to me due to some external stuff & etcetc.
i have characters (not just files) i have developed and consider well built. they’re like my chud daughters i love dearly; but with the growing urge to quit, i find myself asking the forums:
Should I …
- Keep them AO based, even if some thing deviate from canon
- Separate from AO, start entirely anew
- Keep 50% 50%
- Not an option, but I’m open to suggestions
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I was in a similar situation, and I ultimately decided to move my AO characters into a separate universe that I now write and maintain
It’s a good pastime
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if you have grown tired of something, it’s best not to let yourself remains chained to it
what were made wont simply be undone, they will continue to exist, in another where, in another when, in a different form perhaps, but never gone for good
like a plant devouring what it needs, take what you need and bloom - flourish, nourish them and yourself
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I went for the 50%/50% route with my ocs and kept them in a vague AO-like world where I can switch to whether or not I’ll feel like making them interact with the few AO characters I like or do their own thing;in which I can just add my own stuff to the world, create an alright system for abilities and add character settings freely without the constraints.
I like to do it this way since AO’s world and the war seas are cool as a template for me despite how flawed it is, and someday when I get tired of it I can just move the stuff I made up into my own world
If you feel any lingering attachments you can try this way since it lets you set off anytime atleast for me it kinda works
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context: ice cream
- chocolate
- vanilla
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unsure tbh, since this isn’t a trade of sacrificing something permanent for speeding up progress/something i could get without them. this is sacrificing something permanent for something i wouldn’t’ve been able to get otherwise, because my dream body is genetically unobtainable for me.
- Both
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exact 50/50
hot take but chocolate ice cream tastes like cazal’s stink aura, unfettered ass
only ice cream with chocolate in it i can tolerate is mint choc chip
Unrelated but why are this many forumers depressed
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Things are hard to do these days.
Honestly surprised there arent morw.
Archen, I’m going to cease the joking to tell you that this really is getting into unhealthy territory. Longing after something you cannot have like this is only going to bring you misery.
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as someone who also struggles with that, i agree
“And constantly chasing an unattainable goal will drive you a bit crazy…”
Somethings must learned to be accepted, it’s hard but to genuinely think of this level is concerning
Okay forums
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i am 45% sure archen is joking
you never really know sometimes, especially the longer the joke goes
when you joke about the same thing many times it becomes more something you’re used to and it ends up becoming real
but in archens case he has said these kinds of stuff many times and has a whole thread about it so its Veeery likely not just a joke
