[009] Entry 004: Results.

[not_near_but]

Good afternoon.

I will not explain the significance of the colours I have picked for this graph because I don't feel like it. I will explain some of what I have learned in no specific order. Not all of it will pertain to the graph.

Comments

[l_accademico]

Hm.. A pity I find myself too late to participate in your little survey: my own answer would have helped lower the seemingly low median value. Although I realize I can't read the graph in its entirety, I'm still curious as to how it can remain low as such, given that most people who answered weren't of OSTA stock, but have been affected by ANTI's recent fall. I didn't have much time to look over everyone's reasons for their responses, but could it be that enough time has been spent on successful operations in rescuing others from the support Nhodes that the outlook has turned positive? In all, it doesn't really matter, but it's still an interesting observation.

[ooc; Long story short, opening modwork, actual work, research and fun posts in a long row of tabs in the Firefox browser? Sometimes backfires and you miss replying to the fun posts :< Annnd sorry about two posts. I made the same mistake believing 10 meant good. ]

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[not_near_but]

I knew it.

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[not_near_but]

When Mister Vexen doesn't answer me, it is because he is busy.

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[not_near_but]

I believe the answer is simple: even those who belong to ANTI are largely concerned with themselves and their well-being. This is not a bad thing, although I am certain many of them would become angry if I said this to them directly. I expected more of them to indulge in self-pity and talk about how badly they felt for those in Nhode, but I was surprised by the few results to this degree.

However, as expected, those who talked about how badly they felt for those in Nhode were not emotionally distressed until I began to question them, although I am certain they would deny this because it doesn't sound kind.

I believe those in ANTI retain an outlook that is something among these lines: As long as we're alive, we will carry on because there is something for us to look forward to and a goal which we plan on reaching at the end. Everything will work out in our favour. Good will win. We will win. This gives them a sense of importance, optimism, and allows them to become happy again

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[l_accademico]

Absolutely: I find brief enjoyment in seeing your questionnaires and games, and taking the time to interpret them for what they really are. Not responding would defeat the questioners desire to ask the questions after a longer period of receiving no feedback.

But, as always, I can't truly say much more to your elaborate response but that I agree to what you've already stated. Intelligence sadly breeds boredom when you've exhausted your designated workloads: this much was true even before I lost my heart. This not to say that it was a source for unhappiness.. at least not as I remember it. More likely it was frustrating, as one'd seek further challenges elsewhere, which wasted time you felt would have been better spent working on harder things than searching, and so on until you finally did find something that could occupy your time until the next assignment arrives. Luckily, that's no longer the case, and I must say it's better this way. In a manner of speaking anyway

Sometimes we like to talk. A lot.

[not_near_but]

A personal opinion? I will be long-winded

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[l_accademico]

 

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[l_accademico]

While I wouldn't use the term evil.. Dangerous? Perhaps. But then, what human isn't potentially dangerous to someone else? Depending on from whose perspective, as it's constantly and infallibly about perspective. It's remarkable how alike we think when it comes to analysis; but when we leave the passive, impersonal stages of pure critical examination and delve into more personal territory, if one can even call it that, it's obvious that we weren't so alike after all.

I believe OSTA doesn't quite realize what it is that they're doing when they resurrect the dead from hither and yonder without properly researching who they truly were. While they're diligently searching for qualities like intellect, brawn, strategic skills and brutal, murderous drive - all excellent skills to have in an army of monster hunters, of course - they're forgetting that little thing called personal ambitions. Everyone has them: you, I, your friend Matt. And while of course some people would take a little bit more care to step around other people's toes and

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[not_near_but]

 

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[not_near_but]

If that is what you think, then it is better for me.

I was under the impression I had made a mistake and let Mister Vexen know too much about the way I think already.

If we happen to become enemies by way of personal motivation, I won't disappoint you.

(( GOOD BECAUSE I LIKE BADMOUTHING AND TRASH TALKING and Near does a lot of it -- eloquently and ineloquently depending on his mood. ...roflrofjgh Vexen is really cute;;; Near likes him, too, which I personally find to be creepy and weird, so he doesn't mind waiting a lifetime while you're distracted by porn. ))

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[l_accademico]

While I would hope that something like it would never come to bear, I highly doubt you would - albeit the results of such enmity might be interesting a game in itself.

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[l_accademico]

I highly doubt that it could happen however, given how far removed our interests truly are. Unless, for some reason, you've become intrigued by the retrieval of hearts for those who have none: which could prove both highly beneficial and awfully detrimental to our cause. But less of that sort of nonsense now; I don't much care for worrying about who may or may not be an adversary in the future.

Near, for the record, and if you care at all: I'll be a bit tied up the next few days as it would seem, and so telling you in advance that if you happen to raise any debate, inquiry or puzzle why I'm away, as seems to be a habit of your investigative nature, I won't be able to attend it.

Addendum

[l_accademico]

I should have written that you've chosen to overlook, of course. My mistake.

[not_near_but]

Thank you for informing me of your absence. When it's Mister Vexen, who always provides good information and interesting conversation, I am interested in his absences.

When Mister Vexen says tied up, does he mean business?

In light of your recent information, I don't believe our interests will conflict. This is fortunate and unfortunate: I believe I would have enjoyed Mister Vexen as an adversary. He wouldn't be easy to beat.

[l_accademico]

Business, certainly; I don't regularly allow people to physically tie me up in the basement for a few days for my own enjoyment.

It remains to be seen if the situation I'm anticipating will at all occur the way I've mapped it out, or if we'll find ourselves swamped with troubles.. And even if things should go as planned, I'll have a substantial amount of work on my hands. So I'd rather warn the one person who might possibly wonder what is actually happening.