I'm sorry, but I will no longer be able to come here during weekdays.

[jmizzle7]

You're just a high school kid, BS. I say enjoy your last year in high school and focus on what is most important. Titles like Master of Darkness, while really cool and fun, are hardly important in the grand scheme of things. Sure, it stinks that your parents are limiting your game time, but your high school education is more important than a two-month title for an online gaming forum.

About the way all of this happened, I say you made a mistake, but it's hardly anything that can't be fixed.  Yes, it disrupted the flow of the trials and wasted other people's time. Just let this be a learning experience, have a good senior year, and keep in touch with the community when you can. Take care.

[SeddyRocky]

Taking into remembrance that I only spent max 1 hour/day on the Internet (including emails, facebook and stuff like that) during my senior year (yay, parents) in high school, I get what you, in several oddly formulated sentences, try to say.  Of course, it is disappointing to the community to be cheated out of (imo) the most thrilling challengers for master battle. And this disappointment can cause some flaming and some justified complaining. Considerng your status on the forums, it's not surprising that you've been judged harshly. "Random" challengers dropping out would not be a big deal to most people (except for poor SG who has to organize the mess they leave) but a forum celebrity... plus that it's so late and yeah.


Personally, I don't blame you for not trying everything within your power to stay active here. Elements isn't your life, nor should it be (unless you'r Zanz? ^^). Not saying time here is wasted (as T.S Elliot said: "Time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted." or something like that) but studying is better in the long, and relatively short run. And since you aren't allowed by your parents to do it, that makes it a no-brainer. But of course, it's all about getting a sad, heartbreaking message out to calm the masses so that it's obvious that you didn't choose this (because it would be bad timing).

So enjoy your last year, university life is pretty darn sweet by the way .

[Rastafla]

What jmizzle7 said with the addition of its bad to not do the last fight even if you were to drop out, should have shown at least that much courtesy.

Somewhere consciously or unconsciously you must have known this were to happen (given all previous problems with finding time). Could have stayed out of the trials but you chanced it anyway and it turned out to be a bad choice (on the whole).

This situation is a conflux of "should have's" and "could have's". As jmizzle7 said take the experience with you.

Take care.

[Bloodshadow]

suggesting that your school has blocked Elements the game or the forums is just ridiculous.

All non-educational sites are blocked. YouTube, Facebook, Kongregate, everything. We tried to get past those blocks before, but now our proxies no longer work.

Bottom line is that if you think you might not be able to finish an event,

What the hell. Let me put this in big letters for you:

I DID NOT THINK THAT I MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO FINISH THIS EVENT.

Do you understand how frustrated I am right now? I fully believed that I WILL be able to get the title, and I've been preparing for it. Then, suddenly, my parents just come and say, "no, you can't do that anymore". I got extremely pissed, but I can't argue with them with the risk of permanently losing my right to use the computer. Really, I didn't want to quit something I've worked on for so long; but I would have to let this go, else I don't know what emotional beatings my parents will give me next. So I came to the forums, and made a goodbye thread saying how I can't participate anymore. The next thing I knew, I was bombarded with flames and insults as though I KNEW I would have to quit, when clearly I f***ing DIDN'T. You know what this feels like? It feels like getting hit by a car, and then hearing the doctor say "why did you go outside if you knew you might get hit by a car?", only with more flames.

I'm so sick of the world right now. Being misunderstood all the time, my friend refusing to speak to me for no apparent reason, my parents not wanting me to pursue a career in physics, having extreme and extended back luck in Elements, my parents suddenly and randomly ban me from the internet, having to give up the Trial of Darkness, and getting flamed because people can't understand what I tried to say in big red letters. Sure, keep it coming, it's not like anything more will make any difference. I may be exaggerating when I said I had a mental breakdown last Friday, but keep the insults coming and I might have a real one when the depression becomes too much to bear.

[harry959]

Dude, that sucks. Just remember anything (except faster than speed of light travel (probably) is possible and always look on the bright side of life. Also, try to convince your parents if you can all the great things you could do with physics, like light speed travel, if the big bang is defiantly true or not and wormholes.

[Bloodshadow]

except faster than speed of light travel (probably)

Actually, I have a special relativity theory that might explain how faster-than-light travel might work. I'd write it up and email it to Stephen Hawking, but his website says he won't accept any emails containing personal scientific theories because he doesn't have time to review them all.

try to convince your parents if you can all the great things you could do with physics

It'll be hard to get a job in physics, and my parents are worried that I might not be able to make money to support myself. While they're right, I simply can't help but to think that I wasted my life, if I did not devote my life to the one Science that leads to the true nature and meaning of existence.

[jmdt]

It'll be hard to get a job in physics, and my parents are worried that I might not be able to make money to support myself. While they're right, I simply can't help but to think that I wasted my life, if I did not devote my life to the one Science that leads to the true nature and meaning of existence.

I've dealt with a similar life in science so I'll share what I can.

Well, getting a job in physics isn't that difficult depending on what you want to do.  I'm assuming you want a PhD like me, so that makes you a great candidate to be a physics professor at any number of universities around the world.  Many of these jobs pay extremely well and will allow you to do the research that interests you.  It seems unattainable now, but I promise its not nearly as duanting as you think.

Don't worry so much about the future or being successful; these things come in time.  While devoting your life to science sounds like a great idea on paper, in practice you will be unhappy if you do so.  I had a paper published in a prestigeous biotechnology journal last week.  Did it make me happy, no.  It did make, however, make relieved I didn't have to deal with it anymore after 2 years.  What made me happy last week?  Visiting with my sister and her kids, gind to the flea market with my mom, playing video games with my life long best friend.

If you innundate your life with science, you will eventually become burnt out and your life will become miserable.  I had this happen once; I spent so much time working on my research and classes that I got to the point were I wanted to quit.  I didn't even want to wake up in the morinings it was so bad.  Most terrible experience of my life.  I learned from this experience that you must have a balanced life in everything you do if you want to be truely happy and successful.

So I say all this to get to a final point.  Playing elements for an extra hour or two here or there will have little effect on future career in physics.  The distraction conversely will probably help you to do better at physics in the long run.  From the sound of it the tools are upstairs already so don't worry so much.  Its not as hard as yo think it is.  Make sure to have fun in everything you do.

jmdt

[harry959]

A quick little tidbit on light speed travel; so far the ONLY theory I've seen for it is to make a ship that can somehow shrink matter in front of it and expand matter behind it. You come up with something even more reasonable than that, your set.

[Helios]

Structurally and stylistically, your original post could have been much improved, and had it been so, you probably would have avoided a lot of flames.

However, while I cannot profess to know what it is like for you, I understand that you have undergone difficult tribulations, and I sympathise with you there.

Best of luck in your final year of high school.

[Bloodshadow]

A quick little tidbit on light speed travel; so far the ONLY theory I've seen for it is to make a ship that can somehow shrink matter in front of it and expand matter behind it. You come up with something even more reasonable than that, your set.

No, no, my theory is not about that. My theory is about the relativistic effects of tachyons (faster-than-light particles) on spacetime. In short, when you go faster than light, spacetime is distorted so that space becomes time and time becomes space. That might sound implausible, but it actually fits many of the current relativity stuff in physics. I have yet to work out all the details, and I'm still learning, so we'll see how the theory works out in the end. I just hope that my theory doesn't turn out to be unoriginal, and someone else has thought of it first...

Playing elements for an extra hour or two here or there will have little effect on future career in physics.

My parents don't think so. They think that if I play games, I will become addicted, and my school grades will go down.

I'm assuming you want a PhD like me, so that makes you a great candidate to be a physics professor at any number of universities around the world.  Many of these jobs pay extremely well and will allow you to do the research that interests you.

Yes, I do want a PhD in particle physics, but I'm not exactly sure if I want to become a professor. I'm not interested in teaching (I was never good at explaining things), and I just want to do research.

While devoting your life to science sounds like a great idea on paper, in practice you will be unhappy if you do so.
[blah]
If you innundate your life with science, you will eventually become burnt out and your life will become miserable.

It might go away when I'm older, but as of now I have delusions of grandeur. Some part of my brain believes that I'm the next Einstein, and I want to attempt to figure out the Theory of Everything. That part of my brain believes that I'm destined to study physics, due to a number of factors including my more-than-intense interest in the subject, and the fact that I effortlessly obtained a final mark of 98% in my Grade 11 Physics class while other students struggled. Science may have burned you out, but I don't think it burned out every scientist in the world; I sure hope it doesn't happen to me. If I somehow become disinterested in physics, then I can imagine myself having a real mental breakdown if that happens.

But anyways, I get what you're trying to say. There are other things I want in life, and I will not allow science to overwhelm me.

Don't worry so much about the future or being successful; these things come in time.

Well, my parents told me enough horror stories about how some people got PhDs in Physics or Math, couldn't find jobs at all, and had to go to colleges to study another subject.

[Purity_Riot]

Is it really the weekend already? Yay!

Oh wait no, it's Friday.

hmm.

[Bloodshadow]

I did say that I would be able to steal a few quick glances, didn't I? My parents aren't watching me right now, and I don't have any homework at the moment, so I can come and take a look at this thread. The reason for doing so is that I hate being misunderstood, and I will viciously fight back any and all flames directed at me. I haven't looked at any other board or thread, except once at my own forum game. When I progress further into the school year, and start to have more homework, I won't even be able to respond to this thread.

And as you can see, I'm not in the best of moods right now. So if you want to say things just for spite, I want you to shut it. Everything seems to hate me already, and I honestly don't want to see more today.

Good night.