Keeping Up With the Work

Hi all,

Just wanted to take a quick moment to apologize for not being as active on here as I have for the past couple of weeks. It turns out that in the real world, people like to wait to the last minute on just about everything they do, just like in school. So we're left with a nice little end of the year rush to get everything settled for the start of next year (preferably done in time for all the execs and higher ups to take a nice long vacation to close out the year).

I'll try to get something posted on here soon for your entertainment/enjoyment, and in the meantime I hope you all keep checking back! Feel free to share with your friends!

Thanks,
Nate

TLDR: I can't write as much because I'm busy at work. Get the f off my back!

+5 to Social Stamina

I’ll admit that I’m not quite sure how to start this. I know what I want to talk about, I know what I want to say, I even know how I want to say it…I just don’t know where to begin. So I guess I’ll just throw out a general statement and run with it: I don’t agree with the way social pressures have begun to affect our perception and judgment as individuals. There, I said it, in all its pretentious, overbearing glory. Now, forget all that for a moment and allow me to explain.

Peer pressure has existed since the dawn of time, dating all the way back to the moment the devil tempted Eve to eat the forbidden fruit by telling her repeatedly “You won’t do it! You won’t do it!” Since then, however, it’s grown and evolved into something much more subtle and arguably something much more powerful. No longer do we as people need to be persuaded what to do and how to act; the world simply does it for us. No longer do we need to be shown what’s good and right, what’s allegedly “cool”; it’s built into the very fabric of society. This social pressure exists all around us and we hardly even notice it. But look hard enough and you might find that it’s affected even you.

Now here’s where I’m gonna take a sharp left turn and steer this thing in a different direction. Instead of getting into some long, boring diatribe where I debate whether or not I agree with adolescents drinking and smoking (I don’t) or whether knowing how to read and do math somehow makes you uncool (it doesn’t), I’ve decided to focus on something a little more general, a little less personal: the fantasy genre.

More after the jump.