Phew.

So I just wrote and deleted several ranty forum posts for my flag forum. They're discussing "Wargames" and I'm absolutely foam at the mouth opposed. See, in the game if two flags declare war on each other, any PvP battles between them are sinking. That means if I fuck up my battle navigation in the battle, I could lose my ship and every thing on it. To the pro side this adds excitement and fun to their daily game playing. To me... well... every time I think about it I want to quit the game and go throw up somewhere.

War to me is not fun, ever. War is disgusting and wrong. To take war and make it into a game insults the people that the word War means dead friends, dead family, dead cultures. I guess I'm a big old bleeding hippy about this. Kinda. If my home, my country were at risk I'd go to war. That's the same thing within this game. But to do it because some jaded old-timer is bored? I'm sickened. Absolutely sickened.

I know it's just a game. But in many ways it's not. I've put months into this game. Each ship I sail has a story behind her. I've worked harder at this game than anything else in my life for far too long. *laughs* So to have someone propose that I have two choices, stop playing or risk my ships, just infuriates me. Every time this subject comes up I get a raging headache.

Am I wise enough to post "I cannot deal with this concept. I must walk away from it." In the various threads about it? Of course not. But I really should. Maybe I will tonight.

And that's a much overdue 15 minutes.

Last thought: Have these people never seen the movie? Dude.