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Reports of my being eaten by a wild grue are highly exaggerated.

voporakvoporak Member Posts: 5,621 Arc User
edited December 2014 in Ten Forward
I know there are rumors floating around that I got banned by PWE or Youtube, or ragequit the internet, or got eaten by the aforementioned grue. Those rumors are false. I disappeared under my own power. Why, you may ask?

I don't really like this game anymore. It's been going downhill for months. I've wanted to just stop, but something always held me back, kept dragging me in, and the more I stayed with the game, the more stressful it got for me. I just don't want to be with STO anymore. I look at this exploitation of the Star Trek name and see a withered husk, with no hope of recovery. And please don't try to change my mind. The folks this post is for - namely the folks who know me - know that I will not be persuaded otherwise.

STO was sucking precious time from me, not to mention the stress, and I felt it wasn't even worth it to stick around any longer to see if things get better because as I said, I don't believe they will. I'll glance at it here and there over time, of course, to see if anything improves. Until then, the game has lost me forever.

I took down my Youtube channel with it because it was still tying me to STO, and as I've said, I wanted to completely cut myself free of it. Also, if I were to ever start on Youtube again, I didn't want it to be with the name/persona of Voporak because a. Voporak is a name that belongs to Lego (Bionicle set #10203) b. I wouldn't want to have any relation to STO. So sorry guys, I know Delta Rising was the best expansion ever and the players loved it, but someone else will have to take up the torch with the sigs.

I hope I've put all the rumors to rest once and for all. I'm still here, on the internet, you just have to look for me.




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  • smeeinn1tsmeeinn1t Member Posts: 618 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    LLAP.

    Kudos for the reality.
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  • bobosmrade1bobosmrade1 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    Be back soon ;)
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  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    Miss you already...

    :(
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  • orangeitisorangeitis Member Posts: 5,222 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    ...what's a grue?
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  • cmdrscarletcmdrscarlet Member Posts: 5,137 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    For a moment I thought of Gru, but quickly realized ... naw!

    EDIT - Are you sure you are just saying goodbye again? I mean, it is F2P ;)
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  • z3ndor99z3ndor99 Member Posts: 1,391 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    You left... oh ok. Joking :D
    Good luck in all you do voporak, may the force be with you! (Didn't want to end with a star trek quote ).
  • geckoisalizardgeckoisalizard Member Posts: 80 Arc User
    edited December 2014


    "It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue."
  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,965 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    Could be worse. You could be eaten by the Ravenous Bug-Blatter Beast of Traal.
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  • worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    A Glornaxian Brain-Sucking Rock Monster would've been worse.
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    BTW, you should read this thread. :P It's funny. :D
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  • mirrorchaosmirrorchaos Member Posts: 9,844 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    voporak wrote: »
    I know there are rumors floating around that I got banned by PWE or Youtube, or ragequit the internet, or got eaten by the aforementioned grue. Those rumors are false. I disappeared under my own power. Why, you may ask?

    so basically people are asking you for an "i quit" thread in confirmation. you didnt need to come back at all to satisfy their desires not to mention getting a finger shaking exercise from the mods. and each time you return, that will always link you to the game if you want it or not. last year i was playing world of tanks, i wasnt enjoying at all and then that was it, i quit that game and i will make it crystal clear if you ever check up here, i have not even bothered to read their emails they send and unsubbed a while back from it, i never visited their site in that time as well, went completely cold turkey and was set free :D.

    you want to stop with sto? you stop completely, or stop kidding yourself and you still want to play it:P.
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  • sander233sander233 Member Posts: 3,992 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    voporak wrote: »
    [snip]

    I have a question for you...
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  • ddesjardinsddesjardins Member Posts: 3,056 Media Corps
    edited December 2014
    Glad to hear from you, understand totally, best wishes and fair sailing ;)
  • hausofmartokhausofmartok Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    Finally! I can sleep at night!. :rolleyes: The game, and life, will move on without you.
  • catstarstocatstarsto Member Posts: 2,149 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    sry to hear of the difficulty with the game, we all had our dose of BS treatment here from em, hope u keep in touch with your fellow cats. in or out of the game its good to remember those u had a good laugh with. one of my first friends i made in this game no longer plays it, but we are still friends outside of gaming. take care
  • mjarbarmjarbar Member Posts: 2,084 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    Just want to say before the thread gets closed that I'll miss you and the contributions you made to the foundry!

    Ash and I were wondering what had happened to you and I must say it did cross my mind that you had been banned and told to take down the YouTube stuff or face litigation :(

    Best of luck with your future endeavors :)
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  • steamwrightsteamwright Member Posts: 2,820
    edited December 2014
    orangeitis wrote: »
    ...what's a grue?
    geckoisalizard wrote: »


    "It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue."

    A memorable quote from the original, awesome text adventure game, Colossal Cave Adventure, sometimes referred to by other names. "Eaten by a grue" for some odd reason is not in the wikipedia's list of catch phrases from the game. Along with "xyzzy", it was probably just as popular a phrase in its day as "took an arrow to the knee" was last year. (and is still quite usable as voporak has demonstrated).
  • jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,472 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    steamwright wrote: »
    A memorable quote from the original, awesome text adventure game, Colossal Cave Adventure, sometimes referred to by other names. "Eaten by a grue" for some odd reason is not in the wikipedia's list of catch phrases from the game. Along with "xyzzy", it was probably just as popular a phrase in its day as "took an arrow to the knee" was last year. (and is still quite usable as voporak has demonstrated).
    The Wikipedia entry on "grue" states that it was first created in Jack Vance's "Dying Earth" setting, and was used in the old Zork games (which is one reference I do remember, from back when Zork was a new thing).
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  • kimonykimony Member Posts: 571 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grue_%28monster%29

    :)

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  • hawku001xhawku001x Member Posts: 10,769 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    my wife left me and my kids wont return my phone calls thanks to this game
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  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    That's nothing...

    My Gummy Bear Died from Malnutrition...
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    My Imaginary Friend got Kidnapped by Elvis...
    And the Voices in my head have stopped talking to me...


    Oh TRIBBLE... I think I'm going SANE!!!
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