Timesheart, a Care Bear cousin, mentioned in passing the other night of his
Tummy Ray's power to 'see into the future'. It was suggested that
Austin, who had become 'elastic' after coming in forced contact with a strange
potent Steve made, along with Natasha who suffered the same fate after rubbing
against Austin, might look into the Care Bear ray and see what, in the
future cured the 'elasticity' condition.
Although Austin has yet to reveal what he saw in the future, and has taken
no action towards curing his condition, this reporter's eagerness to record
the facts of the occurrence seems to have
irritated LilBit. 'Hmmph' ing and saying 'Reporters!'. his barely
contained distain finally boiled over. His eyes began to glow and with a
burst, rays shot out of them focusing on this reporter's notebook, setting it
afire!
Dropping the notebook, along with notes for this story, and some cool
drawings of giant robots battling jet planes he made in English class, LilBit
seemed satisfied that the story would not be printed. Luckily this
reporter has a fair memory and the sequence of events made
this edition of the paper.
Two computer hard drives. missing from the Los Alamos Nuclear facility since
it was evacuated due to wildfires last week have been found.
Authorities revealed today that a search discovered the missing drives
behind a Xerox machine in the Secret 'X Area' of the facility.
Although the FBI is still investigating the case, news reports and
information given exclusively to @Action News indicate that the SED's leader
Morticon is the number one suspect.
Agent Elliot Friday, who gave us this information on condition of
anonymity, revealed that the method of the crime, and the discovery of the
hard drives near a Xerox machine indicated that no one but the SED could
have been responsible. "Who else but an SED stooge would be
stupid enough to think making copies of computer discs could be done on a
Xerox machine?" It was indicated that Wallaby tracks, and what
appeared to be a fur boa dragged along the ground gave further credence to
the theory it was an SED job that went awry.
Editorial
NOTE: THE FOLLOWING IS 'MY OPINION'.
NOT FACT
Well, we had an 'episode' the other night. Morticon, with the help of a
few folks attempted to start a little RP session in the Rose Garden.
A few other folks loudly and somewhat rudely expressed their desire not to
participate. Some remarks concerning the quality of the RP, and
Morticon's alleged 'forcing them to participate' bordering on flaming.
As a result, feelings were hurt, a couple of folks either gave up an
attempt to entertain themselves and others, or walked off in a huff.
Cries of 'I don't have to be in an RP unless I want', and 'I thought
Austin wanted us to do what we enjoy, and having to be in Morticon's RP
isn't what I enjoy,' went up in defense of the actions taken. These
and other arguments are valid.
However...
The rule in a Democracy is: The majority rules, as long as the
rights of the minority are not infringed. However, the opposite
applies. The rights of the minority cannot restrict the rights of
the majority. In the context of what occurred , this means
that if you don't like what's happening in a public room, and you are in
the minority, you cannot infringe upon the majority's right to enjoy the
activity. To boil it down, if you don't like Morticon's RP, or Topaz
chatting about photography, or Balloonatic talking about being a clown, or
Sunni and her diapers, while 'most' everyone else does, YOU are in the
minority. Calling the RP or discussion lame or stupid, or making a
scene about it is infringing on the rights of the folks who ARE enjoying
it.
Now, the idea isn't that you have to 'love it or leave it'. Most of
us are open minded and flexible enough to 'go along' with most any
discussion or activity. But if the only response you have is a wise
crack about how it's silly, or 'you' don't like it, then just take a time
out and leave the room.
I understand that Austin wants SpinDizzy to be 'fun with a sense of
whimsy'. Austin
built this place, arranged to get us space on Findra's server, and has
worked hard to keep the place running. He does so in the hope that
SpinDizzy can offer a place for players, and himself to 'have fun' and
allow their 'sense of whimsy' to exercise itself. We are
allowed to connect to SpinDizzy when we choose, and use the data base in
almost anyway we see fit. It costs us absolutely nothing to be here.
We get to RP, chat with friends, have discussions, and meet and make
friends from all over the world who share the desire to 'muck'. I
think in return for all this, for the bandwidth, and server space, and
effort to keep it running, it wouldn't kill us to give Austin at least a
hint of what he is hoping SpinDizzy will be. No, not 24 / 7 hearts and
rainbows and Care Bear tummy symbols, but at least not looking for excuses
to gripe about someone else's idea of fun.
You may not care, but I like SpinDizzy. I have friends here, I
get to do neat things, meet interesting folks, and be something my player
isn't. And all I have to do is to relax and have fun and encourage
and respect other's right to do the same.. I'm simply saying that
some folks need to widen their focus, 'go along' with the things that
happen here, and look on the bright side of things rather than complain
about what you don't like. And most importantly, help make this
place something like what Austin wants. Otherwise, he could very
well give up the project and leave us dodging the spam on another muck.
I don't want to see that happen.
Argon, Editor @Action News
