User:Spazalicious Chaos/Meditations on Society- My View of This Wiki as a Whole

Origins of the Meditations
A thought exercise I often do with my friends, family, or when I'm by myself and really, really bored is my own version of stereotyping. It is really simple and can be done by anyone. First, watch a movie, play a video game, or READ A BOOK! Once you are to the midpoint when all the actually important characters are introduced, pick a group of people you know or at least talked to. Then start casting them to characters in whatever you are enjoying. This excercise is kinda important for me because I'm actually very uncomfortable with the whole "inside the box" thing. I mean, sure the box IS there and SOMEONE must have made it for a reason, but that really doesn't change the fact that I live way the hell and gone from the box and never bothered to look inside up until about thirteen, when I took a peek and laughed at how rediculous it is. But some people take the box very seriously, hence the forementioned exercise.

This particular meditations is based on my attempt to do a Red vs Blue/dnd-wiki mesh. The results were... surprising to say the least.

The People
When I performed the above exercise with stereotyping wiki posters to RVB characters, I came up with a complete blank for Cabooses and Donuts. Seriously, even I didn't qualify, and I am still very much newb extrodinaire. I ended up corelating myself to Grif- a smart individual who makes himself difficult because it is easy, takes little to no work, and it's funny to be so. Also, the whole "not caring about himself or others" is close match, but compassion for those in need would make it a perfect match. If you have questions on this matter, post in the talk page.

The main point of this is that we have a complete lack of retards here. Looking at when the bad posts are made, they correlate roughly to around when lack of sleep and/or caffiene is a possible issue. While not of the same experiences, skill sets or knowledge, everyone here is intelligent, without question.

The Site
Blood Gultche=dnd-wiki.org, when you think about it. Think about it: we are on this site, posting ideas and maneuvering to try and ensure that "suitible material" (whatever the hell that means) is the only stuff on this site, but if this site were to have a mass system crash and be gone from the net... umm, so what? This site is a box canyon- nothing really to be gained, in either status or real world materials, there is no money in this site because of our beloved anti-ad regieme, and beacuse of our focus if this site were completely taken over by a faction we don't like we can just move to another wiki and let the people we hate have their little chat room while we are having fun in another wiki, or even creating our own.

The Objective
Like orders from Red or Blue Command, our orders are to create "quality, easy to find homebrew material" with a few guidlines that essentialy ammount to "no duh" and "don't get us sued" when looked at objectively. Though we argue a lot about how these guidelines are to be interpretted, they are still there. However, they really don't say much. After all, I know that given the chance Ghostwheel would almost certainly find a way to make a straight progression Monk into an unarmed Wizard level god of war. I like using science and trickery combined with roguish flair to ensure that my party never sees a foe that needs more than finishing off, if confrontation is even necessary. And among the casual vistors to this site some of them may just suck as gamers, able to reduce any Wizard level class to Monk in just a few sessions. We are in the dark because of a combined stupid and brilliance factor that is inherit in all table top RPGs.

The Situtation
Like every character in RVB, we really don't need each other. Hell, I think every single one of us would be much happier and have fewer headaches if we all quit this site for good and just hung out with our own groups and used our own homebrew in our own games. Really, I think all of us deep down know this is true. But we gave ourselves a job to do. We volunteered to put out our best and well-tested ideas to the semi-public eye that it may be scrutinized and, while most likely pissed on, hopefully adopted by some group we never met.

The RVB cast is made of soldiers, throughout the series we find that every single one of those characters volunteered for the military, and that is why they put up with all the shit that is handed to them. We volunteered to post on this wiki. We're not even paid to do this. There is no concievible personal benefit to be gainned from here. Every minute we spend here is a minute that we will never get back, and quite frankly it is not even that well spent. I'd much rather spend this time with friends, if not making entirely new friends, or better yet enemies. It would be so cool to have an enemy, someone I can hate strongly and forget all courtly manner and compassion when dealing with them... *cough* I digress.

Conclusion
My point is, we spend the time here because it is something we decided had to be done. This is completely wrong, it is a waste of time and it would improve our lives to give up on this site. But that will not stop me, and it should not stop any of you. We don't always get along, and I don't think we all ever will. But that is what makes this site great. There is a version of RVB where all the character get along and there is no conflict. It's called Carebears, and it sucks donkey balls.

So, to you all I say good day, and keep our little Blood Glultch interesting. We need violence and arguing, because | that is what makes this site fun for other people. Thank you.