Post by New Dracora on Mar 11, 2006 5:44:25 GMT -5
*taps mic*
Hello? hello? Is this thing on?
*Cue extremely high-pitched and irritating mic feedback sound.*
Well I must say I never thought I would ever be doing this. Yet here I am supposedly getting ready for some kind of montage that is supposed to utterly convince you all of what an utterly fantastic person I am and how I'm going to be able to fix all of this regions problems with a simple click of my fingers and tap of my heels...
Let me be the first to say that is not going to happen. I hate politics, so it's not in my nature.
However, before I get to much into detail as to why I'm doing this, perhaps I should go into a little bit of background about myself yes? I mean everyone else seems to be doing it - seems to me like a good idea.
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I've been in the islands since July 2004... it is presently March 2006. That means in about for months time I will have been in this region for two years. Yikes, suddenly I feel old.
Anyway, what most of you don't know is I joined the region within about thirty seconds after joining nationstates. No kidding. Thirty seconds. Now I'd been heavily involved in other online games before where it takes a huge amount of effort just for the top teams to even acknowledge your existance let alone get an invite from them. So when I received a recruitment letter from New Boniventure (Or was it someone else? Boktavia? Me ol' mind's goin' on me) I was naturally pretty chuffed. So chuffed in fact that within five minutes of joining NS proper I was a member of TITO.
Ah yes. Five minutes of NS and I'm in TITO. The good ol' days ;D
So I'm a part of this new game in one of the best NS-armies out there (so it was claimed... heh). I'm nervous as hell, so I sign up for the buddy program. Not long after, I get a TG from my new buddy; says her name is Yavanna.
I ask her a few questions about TITO and how all this 'defending/invading' stuff works and from that point onwards we just talked random things.
I'm still nervous as hell however. I look to the forum and I see a hell of a lot going on and I have no idea how to contribute. I should note at about this time that prior to joining NS, I had been involved in two RP-communities over the course of the previous four years. We roleplayers aren't exactly known for or interaction abilities and then to stick together in isolated groups away from all the 'normal' people - at least that was my option before I took a good look at the main NS forums... but that's another story. I finally built up enough courage and started posting here... it wasn't long before I felt like I belonged in XKI (If you look closely, you can even see the progression from nervous newbie to c0cky bastard ;D ).
TITO has been in interesting experience for me as well. My first ever mission for TITO was the first famed invasion of the north pacific. I even have a medal ffs. So naturally my first few missions afterward seemed a little anti-climatic (I must say that I knew how those soldiers stationed in the arctic circle must've felt after my as$ignment to the region of 000000000000 ) but I soon got into the swing of it. The takeover of the DEN HQ was pretty cool - except when those bastards tried to get Boo deleted (I was having a 'debate' with a certain nation known as "Debugistan" over how invading was stupid when he let slip that a couple of denites had made the complaint to see if the mods would react) how the "whomping nar-nars" part of her title. I quickly let the mods know what I thought of that... and there has been a few other funny moments as well, The North Atlantic region wins the best ever response from natives towards an invasion for continuously pestering DEN for many months afterwards, constant region hopping thanks to a 12-year old invader pretending to be 16 was certainly interesting as well. I've been known to be a little too enthusiastic - I've broken the no-movement-unless-ordered rule at least twice now, and my recent comments in the RMB of anime after the invaders "had been ordered by their leaders to leave" lead the delegate at the time to mistake me for an invader - no I wasn't very pleased about that.
I've also dabbled in a little politics somewhat... well ok, not really. I was however, a member of the Liberalistical Party headed by Boo (and Shenyat... I think ). That was pretty cool while it was active, the only real political motivation we had was to make fun of the ACN and how seriously they appeared to take themselves. ;D It was also the birthplace of the party slogan you see in my sig and Glu's dish-fetish. I especially enjoyed being part of the creative process involving party ads on the RMB that made a mockery of the standard political ads - I'm sure you've all been subjected to them at least once in your life so you should know what I'm talking about - and also had the main promise that if you voted for our party you received a free T-shirt. Genius. ;D
Other than that, over my time here I've tried to be helpful and contribute where I have thought that I would do good. Sadly though I feel that I've never really done much cop. I've been a buddy, a part of immigration, an emissary, a prospective professor, an attempted GP-organiser and even a prospective artist. None of these roles I have been satisfied with and unfortunately, although my intentions were good, have never come to fruitition. It should be noted that I was never kicked out of any of these roles however... am I being too hard on myself? I think not.
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Ok so that about covers my XKI-life story me thinks. If you want further details buy the soon to be realised autobiography "ND" from your local bookstore. As you can see, I'm not exactly perfect nor am I really politically-driven.
So why the bloody hell am I running for Senator you ask.
The answer is simple. Well, ok... not really. Basically I haven't been very happy with the region of late. I've started to see the all too familiar signs of decay that too often mark the beginning of the end of an online community. New people are not getting involved. Oldies are dying out. There is a sense about that something ain't quite right... people are jumping about saying something needs to be done, etc, etc.
It is at this point however, that I've noticed a deviation.
A source of hope if you will.
And that is, unlike the other communities I'm seeing ACTIVE INTEREST. By that I mean some people here are actually doing something. Things such as the university, the regional economic system, the emissary program and increased effort by immigration are all signs that people in the community are willing to step up a gear to keep the place functioning.
But these people need support. This is where I feel that I can finally contribute. I love XKI and I want it to persevere. I want to help these people get their ideas working and make certain they reach there full potential rather than get bogged down in legislation. If I feel something is wrong I'm not going to hold back or make an excuse - my recent statement in the TITO forum should be enough proof of that. Similarly I expect as much from everyone else commenting about myself should I be elected. I hope that I can use my past experience with other communities to help this region as much as I can.
Lastly I'm not going to throw any lofty goals about on how to make the world a better place or promote myself with all these fancy ideals that have no relevance to our situation what-so-ever. As I said at the start of this (now insanely over-extended post, sheesh
), I hate politics and I especially hate all the BS and self-righteousness that is often connected with it. I just want to get the work done. That's why I'm a member of the UPP, because so far I think they're on the same wavelength and share the same love for XKI.
So if you vote for me, don't do it based on what my "ideals" are, do it based on whether you think I'll do a good job or not. Because if you don't think I'm gonna do a good job, I don't want to be a senator.
It's as simple as that.
Now if you have any questions, let's hear it. I can't do as you ask if you can't be as$ed to ask in the first place.
Oh btw, I haven't edited this post as of yet. So if you see an error don't hesitate to point it out.
Hello? hello? Is this thing on?
*Cue extremely high-pitched and irritating mic feedback sound.*
Well I must say I never thought I would ever be doing this. Yet here I am supposedly getting ready for some kind of montage that is supposed to utterly convince you all of what an utterly fantastic person I am and how I'm going to be able to fix all of this regions problems with a simple click of my fingers and tap of my heels...
Let me be the first to say that is not going to happen. I hate politics, so it's not in my nature.
However, before I get to much into detail as to why I'm doing this, perhaps I should go into a little bit of background about myself yes? I mean everyone else seems to be doing it - seems to me like a good idea.
----------------------------------
I've been in the islands since July 2004... it is presently March 2006. That means in about for months time I will have been in this region for two years. Yikes, suddenly I feel old.
Anyway, what most of you don't know is I joined the region within about thirty seconds after joining nationstates. No kidding. Thirty seconds. Now I'd been heavily involved in other online games before where it takes a huge amount of effort just for the top teams to even acknowledge your existance let alone get an invite from them. So when I received a recruitment letter from New Boniventure (Or was it someone else? Boktavia? Me ol' mind's goin' on me) I was naturally pretty chuffed. So chuffed in fact that within five minutes of joining NS proper I was a member of TITO.
Ah yes. Five minutes of NS and I'm in TITO. The good ol' days ;D
So I'm a part of this new game in one of the best NS-armies out there (so it was claimed... heh). I'm nervous as hell, so I sign up for the buddy program. Not long after, I get a TG from my new buddy; says her name is Yavanna.
I ask her a few questions about TITO and how all this 'defending/invading' stuff works and from that point onwards we just talked random things. I'm still nervous as hell however. I look to the forum and I see a hell of a lot going on and I have no idea how to contribute. I should note at about this time that prior to joining NS, I had been involved in two RP-communities over the course of the previous four years. We roleplayers aren't exactly known for or interaction abilities and then to stick together in isolated groups away from all the 'normal' people - at least that was my option before I took a good look at the main NS forums... but that's another story.
I finally built up enough courage and started posting here... it wasn't long before I felt like I belonged in XKI (If you look closely, you can even see the progression from nervous newbie to c0cky bastard ;D ).TITO has been in interesting experience for me as well. My first ever mission for TITO was the first famed invasion of the north pacific. I even have a medal ffs.
So naturally my first few missions afterward seemed a little anti-climatic (I must say that I knew how those soldiers stationed in the arctic circle must've felt after my as$ignment to the region of 000000000000 ) but I soon got into the swing of it. The takeover of the DEN HQ was pretty cool - except when those bastards tried to get Boo deleted (I was having a 'debate' with a certain nation known as "Debugistan" over how invading was stupid when he let slip that a couple of denites had made the complaint to see if the mods would react) how the "whomping nar-nars" part of her title. I quickly let the mods know what I thought of that... and there has been a few other funny moments as well, The North Atlantic region wins the best ever response from natives towards an invasion for continuously pestering DEN for many months afterwards, constant region hopping thanks to a 12-year old invader pretending to be 16 was certainly interesting as well. I've been known to be a little too enthusiastic - I've broken the no-movement-unless-ordered rule at least twice now, and my recent comments in the RMB of anime after the invaders "had been ordered by their leaders to leave" lead the delegate at the time to mistake me for an invader - no I wasn't very pleased about that. I've also dabbled in a little politics somewhat... well ok, not really.
I was however, a member of the Liberalistical Party headed by Boo (and Shenyat... I think ). That was pretty cool while it was active, the only real political motivation we had was to make fun of the ACN and how seriously they appeared to take themselves. ;D It was also the birthplace of the party slogan you see in my sig and Glu's dish-fetish. I especially enjoyed being part of the creative process involving party ads on the RMB that made a mockery of the standard political ads - I'm sure you've all been subjected to them at least once in your life so you should know what I'm talking about - and also had the main promise that if you voted for our party you received a free T-shirt. Genius. ;DOther than that, over my time here I've tried to be helpful and contribute where I have thought that I would do good. Sadly though I feel that I've never really done much cop. I've been a buddy, a part of immigration, an emissary, a prospective professor, an attempted GP-organiser and even a prospective artist. None of these roles I have been satisfied with and unfortunately, although my intentions were good, have never come to fruitition. It should be noted that I was never kicked out of any of these roles however... am I being too hard on myself? I think not.
----------------------------------
Ok so that about covers my XKI-life story me thinks. If you want further details buy the soon to be realised autobiography "ND" from your local bookstore. As you can see, I'm not exactly perfect nor am I really politically-driven.
So why the bloody hell am I running for Senator you ask.
The answer is simple. Well, ok... not really.
Basically I haven't been very happy with the region of late. I've started to see the all too familiar signs of decay that too often mark the beginning of the end of an online community. New people are not getting involved. Oldies are dying out. There is a sense about that something ain't quite right... people are jumping about saying something needs to be done, etc, etc.It is at this point however, that I've noticed a deviation.
A source of hope if you will.
And that is, unlike the other communities I'm seeing ACTIVE INTEREST. By that I mean some people here are actually doing something. Things such as the university, the regional economic system, the emissary program and increased effort by immigration are all signs that people in the community are willing to step up a gear to keep the place functioning.
But these people need support. This is where I feel that I can finally contribute. I love XKI and I want it to persevere. I want to help these people get their ideas working and make certain they reach there full potential rather than get bogged down in legislation. If I feel something is wrong I'm not going to hold back or make an excuse - my recent statement in the TITO forum should be enough proof of that. Similarly I expect as much from everyone else commenting about myself should I be elected. I hope that I can use my past experience with other communities to help this region as much as I can.
Lastly I'm not going to throw any lofty goals about on how to make the world a better place or promote myself with all these fancy ideals that have no relevance to our situation what-so-ever. As I said at the start of this (now insanely over-extended post, sheesh
), I hate politics and I especially hate all the BS and self-righteousness that is often connected with it. I just want to get the work done. That's why I'm a member of the UPP, because so far I think they're on the same wavelength and share the same love for XKI.So if you vote for me, don't do it based on what my "ideals" are, do it based on whether you think I'll do a good job or not. Because if you don't think I'm gonna do a good job, I don't want to be a senator.
It's as simple as that.
Now if you have any questions, let's hear it. I can't do as you ask if you can't be as$ed to ask in the first place.
Oh btw, I haven't edited this post as of yet. So if you see an error don't hesitate to point it out.
For my service strengthening ties between Canada and the 10000 Islands.