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myOtaku.com: CosmicSailor
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Tuesday, November 1, 2005
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Once again, I was made to feel inferior to my peers. I'm not angry about it, I am annoyed, I am frustrated, and I am disappointed, but I'm not angry. The Beta launch invitations for the Art of Otaku went out this morning, to those of you who signed up, check your inboxes if you haven't all ready. Naturally I read through it to see just how to go about getting involved with the Beta launch. I didn't have to completely read the invite to know almost immediately I was automatically out, that I couldn't participate. I don't have a credit card, so I have to wait until the "official" launch to be able to get the guide, and I'll end up paying more for it because of that. I guess those of us who don't have credit cards are just second class citizens because we can't pay for everything with a sixteen digit number.
People used to do that kind of thing to me in school. I was in Theatre in high school, the other students would get together and plan cast/crew parties then decide to invite me an hour before the thing was to start, knowing I needed more time than that to be sure my family knew I had plans. To tell the truth, I think they deliberately did that so I wouldn't be able to go. Here, I've been a proponent of the money order payment method since it was brought up, then the invitation goes and slaps those of us who can't pay by credit card in the face by saying to us: "you're not important enough to qualify for the discount because you can't put the money up right this very nanosecond."
I want the project to do well, I really do. However, it's hardly fair to expect the people who want to particpate in the Beta launch but can't only because we don't have a [squeaky-squeaky!] credit card to lose out on that discount and be content about it. A lot of noise over a few dollars and cents, I know, why should I even bother, Right? Well, it's a matter of principle to me, that's why.
I wish the Beta Launch of the Art of Otaku all the luck in the world, I'll give a [Honk!] when the rest of us can buy it.
No, not this time, no anime dreams.
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