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@AshleyAttacked: How was that rude?

@QinusAxia:
Thanks, once again

[quote=DatMuskateer]I drew this real quick and its pretty bad but..

http://imgur.com/2VxFYNG[/quote]

This is........ bad?

[quote=QinusAxia]on that note, i whipped up a quick one for ya!
[url=http://i.imgur.com/iOn8uuh.png]http://i.imgur.com/iOn8uuh.png[/url][/quote]

Your skills are particularly impressive...not only do you have the technical skills involved in this sort of thing practiced and refined to a much more professional, elegant and natural, for lack of a better word, level...but you also have what a lot of artists lack and spend their whole lives trying to develop - a unique, distinct and personal...yet immediately recognizable...style. I'm truly impressed by your abilities and talent.

Wow, got a lot more then expected. Thanks, you guys.
@AshleyAttacked
I made this thread more to get a drawing, honestly. I haven't played Maple for a long time now, because I just don't find it fun anymore. I do not plan on coming back in the near future, so I just wanted something little to look back on. The advice was great though, but I don't think you had to pour so much into it o.o
Also, the people I met here are now in a Skype group and we play a different game now. So, all's well that end's well, I guess?

gj on quitting! i drew your hat relaly bad but welp
http://i.imgur.com/mmEv1bM.png

[quote=QinusAxia]what does this have to do with anything? lol
he's not really making a big scene and didn't say why he quit, all he did was ask for a drawing. in the time it took you to write that essay, you probably could've drawn the fella something, haha.[/quote]

He basically expressed how big a deal it was to him so I decided to share my thoughts and experiences with the subject in an effort to help him out if what I said happened to be relevant at all. I basically just felt bad for him and kinda figured there's something deeper behind the situation. The sentimental desire for a keepsake like a drawing of his character made me read a lot between the lines of what he said. Just trying to be nice and offer advice on the off chance it might be of use.

[quote=LatePuberty]pls have some respect for urself and draw something decent[/quote]

No need to be rude.

[quote=iDrinkOJ]here you go http://imgur.com/TlBxKh2
using mouse and paint[/quote]

pls have some respect for urself and draw something decent

[quote=AshleyAttacked]You know, you can actually tone down on how often and intensely you play the game...and for as long as you desire...without making silly ultimatums about quitting completely and forever since just about everyone who does that changes their mind and comes crawling back. All you need to do is stop logging in or playing the game until you decide later on that you want to again. If that never happens then who cares...if it does then you won't be embarassed to recant on your word and come across as lacking self discipline in front of others.

I really don't understand why anyone goes through these big productions with emotional goodbyes, etc. Just tell people you won't be on much for a bit, give them some contact info if you want and go about doing whatever it is you intend to do next. It's really that easy and you also save people the trouble of awkwardly going through the motions of telling you not to quit and then worrying about saying their goodbyes correctly, etc. Also, in your mind the whole thing you're instigating by making an official finale for yourself and then the final date you're gonna play and then the last time you'll login in forever...will just inadvertently push the whole situation into sharper focus in your mind and make it a bigger deal than it is which will just make you think about it more and more while the limits you bizarrely imposed on yourself will pressure you since now you 'know' you can't login again...basically placing rules and limitations on yourself causes you to inversely focus and dwell on them and will eventually lead to you feeling smothered by those rules which will probably end up being all it takes to quickly tip you over the breaking point and come back when if you just took a break and retained your freedom to do what you want you'd probably only think about it when you're ready to come back. Which brings me to the final silly phenomenon....what is the point in you quitting? Is this some internal dare to force yourself to change against your will? Because there are a lot more productive ways to accomplish that in your life...namely by just doing what it is you want to see yourself doing and changing the things about yourself that you're attributing, for whatever reason, to maplestory by working on them directly and openly rather than subtly trying to shift the blame off yourself and, in this case, onto Maplestory and mistakenly expecting things to fall into place and correct themselves just by quitting the game. The source problem is almost never in the game...the game is almost always just a symptom of the larger problem and doing what you're doing is doomed to fail because you're neither acknowledging the real issue nor making any attempt to correct it and fix things about yourself.

If this really doesn't apply to you then I'm sorry, I tend to see these things all the same from person to person. Quitting the game and making the big emotional scene is just yet another way to deflect blame off themselves, the problem is almost never Maplestory, Maplestory is just the outward manifestation or expression of the problem and naively trying to convince yourself that the whole thing will go away by drawing the line and quitting the game will almost always fail because it doesn't address the actual problem nor do anything constructive to correct it...it'll just manifest itself somewhere else in your life and worst case scenario you'll make a big come back to the game hinged on the idea that you're not only going to keep playing but since you misdiagnosed the problem which is rooted in yourself you'll basically be saying I'm coming back and this time I'm okay with things as they were and I've convinced myself I don't need to change at all.

Just trying to be helpful/thoughtful about the situation in case you're not thinking things through clearly enough.[/quote]

Will you write my essays?

I drew this real quick and its pretty bad but..

http://imgur.com/2VxFYNG

You know, you can actually tone down on how often and intensely you play the game...and for as long as you desire...without making silly ultimatums about quitting completely and forever since just about everyone who does that changes their mind and comes crawling back. All you need to do is stop logging in or playing the game until you decide later on that you want to again. If that never happens then who cares...if it does then you won't be embarassed to recant on your word and come across as lacking self discipline in front of others.

I really don't understand why anyone goes through these big productions with emotional goodbyes, etc. Just tell people you won't be on much for a bit, give them some contact info if you want and go about doing whatever it is you intend to do next. It's really that easy and you also save people the trouble of awkwardly going through the motions of telling you not to quit and then worrying about saying their goodbyes correctly, etc. Also, in your mind the whole thing you're instigating by making an official finale for yourself and then the final date you're gonna play and then the last time you'll login in forever...will just inadvertently push the whole situation into sharper focus in your mind and make it a bigger deal than it is which will just make you think about it more and more while the limits you bizarrely imposed on yourself will pressure you since now you 'know' you can't login again...basically placing rules and limitations on yourself causes you to inversely focus and dwell on them and will eventually lead to you feeling smothered by those rules which will probably end up being all it takes to quickly tip you over the breaking point and come back when if you just took a break and retained your freedom to do what you want you'd probably only think about it when you're ready to come back. Which brings me to the final silly phenomenon....what is the point in you quitting? Is this some internal dare to force yourself to change against your will? Because there are a lot more productive ways to accomplish that in your life...namely by just doing what it is you want to see yourself doing and changing the things about yourself that you're attributing, for whatever reason, to maplestory by working on them directly and openly rather than subtly trying to shift the blame off yourself and, in this case, onto Maplestory and mistakenly expecting things to fall into place and correct themselves just by quitting the game. The source problem is almost never in the game...the game is almost always just a symptom of the larger problem and doing what you're doing is doomed to fail because you're neither acknowledging the real issue nor making any attempt to correct it and fix things about yourself.

If this really doesn't apply to you then I'm sorry, I tend to see these things all the same from person to person. Quitting the game and making the big emotional scene is just yet another way to deflect blame off themselves, the problem is almost never Maplestory, Maplestory is just the outward manifestation or expression of the problem and naively trying to convince yourself that the whole thing will go away by drawing the line and quitting the game will almost always fail because it doesn't address the actual problem nor do anything constructive to correct it...it'll just manifest itself somewhere else in your life and worst case scenario you'll make a big come back to the game hinged on the idea that you're not only going to keep playing but since you misdiagnosed the problem which is rooted in yourself you'll basically be saying I'm coming back and this time I'm okay with things as they were and I've convinced myself I don't need to change at all.

Just trying to be helpful/thoughtful about the situation in case you're not thinking things through clearly enough.

here you go http://imgur.com/TlBxKh2
using mouse and paint

Try drawing it yourself?