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myOtaku.com: CosmicSailor
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Friday, March 19, 2004
New Direction Update
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First off congratulations on hitting the new milestone, 20,000 members and counting.
The update today has me curious. My lack of art is probably my primary reason I'm not very interested in the "refined portfolio system" mentioned. Why do I need to be interested in features I'll never get to use. It's an old rant I know. I get tired of saying it, as I'm sure someone is tired of hearing it. Anyway, I guess I'm still annoyed that I haven't figured out what the double standard is to get stuff accepted here. Something doesn't make sense to me, I've seen pictures (no offense to anyone is meant) that are far worse than what I tried to submit, yet they are here, mine is not. Don't ask me to refer you to specifc pics or artists, because I'm not so cruel as to deliberatetly disgrace or embarass anyone. I may be in a bad mood, but there is a line even I will not cross. The specifics aren't important, the concept of favoritism over quality control, is.
I spent last week mostly offline for a reason. I was working on the specifics of a plan I vaguely introduced a while ago under the heading of taking my corner of the internet universe in a new direction. That "New Direction" was going to combine my stories with my art, and an interactive element that I can't even discuss now because there is no way it can be implimented. I put a lot of work into the test art and story, so that they would be recognised as a new standard for me personally. If I didn't put so much of my heart into what I do, the failure wouldn't hurt so much, but I was always going that extra step to feel my material.
Since I'm not seeing nearly the results I was anticipating for this to work, I'm cancelling the New Direction. There's no point in my putting all my efforts into something if it's not going to work from the start. I take failure of any kind very poorly. It reflects upon me as being less than my best. I may at some point decide to try the New Direction again, but that is uncertain as of yet. I do apologize if I've offended, insulted, or otherwise affected negatively with this post. I'll be back to my old routine of dry, unimportant ramblings as early as next week.
~Cosmicsailor
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