An Apology From One of Your Global Moderators.

[Amadeus]

The past 6 months have been excruciatingly painful, and I'm not out of the clear yet, either.

Earlier in the year I mentioned needing some staff to cover for me, alas, I decided to try and take care of things myself. Failure abound, I was always the last responder to Reports, if I got there at all.

Half the time I failed to participate in the forum. Occasionally I would post but I've probably the most lurkingest mod FP has.

Why was I gone for so long?

I had some trouble at school, a simple mistake that resulted in the failure of three classes. I am still upset over it, I am usually really good about college. Missed the deadline to purchase textbooks w/ financial aid, was broke, spent 3/4's of the term with no textbooks.

In addition to working retail (more specifically, maintenance), I was drained, I told my friends I hated Christmas and everyone who celebrated it because it promoted greed and irrational behavior.

To cheer me up futaman2024 bought me a buttload of steam games, which did cheer me up, but it also effectively distracted me from my duties here. I apologize for that... my thinking has been quite cloudy, like trudging through a murky swamp.

I'm working on these things, but it's going to take me awhile.

What can you see from me in the future?

1. More participation in the community. Responding to Reports quicker.
2. More Interaction with everyone. not necessarily more art from me, however.
3. More participation in IRC.

Any comments will be appreciated.

And again, I apologize for my absence.

--Amadeus

[Fapmaster]

It's OK man, sometimes life hits you and you gotta step away and heal and fix things up, the death of my father hit me hard and cause me to stay out of my college classes for so long that I got so far behind I had to drop them, thankfully the school understood, but I had to lie to my mom so 3 days a week I went tot he school and sat in the library.

Rest up fix up and come back swinging

[Crusadera]

A buttload of steam games? If you have like TF2 or L4D2 I'll play some games with ya, or if anyone else does my steam id is
http://steamcommunity.com/id/crusadera

[vella]

Fapmaster said it best - "sometimes life hits you and you gotta step away and heal and fix things up" but especially when he said, "Its OK, man".

And it IS. FP is a nice part of life but it is only a part of life. Sometimes there are more serious things that need your attention and it looks like you had one of those times.

Fapmaster: sorry to hear about your dad.

[frost]

dude no problem shit happens and well evryone can believe what they want its a free world.

hope evrything turns out aight for u man

[thokamous]

I dont feel you need to be sorry about anything the holidays are indeed a difficult time for more everyone(unless you are filty rich sadly most of us are not)and hey i understand about school stuff i think you gotta do that before anything else. so no worrys

[cdevries]

It's OK man, sometimes life hits you and you gotta step away and heal and fix things up, the death of my father hit me hard and cause me to stay out of my college classes for so long that I got so far behind I had to drop them, thankfully the school understood, but I had to lie to my mom so 3 days a week I went tot he school and sat in the library.

Rest up fix up and come back swinging

Life will do that, hit you like it means business. Been a strange year in many respects. Just wanted to say this: After having spent too much time (no doubt) in forums like this one I think I'm qualified to say that there are some pretty decent people hanging out in here. Time and again I'm struck by the - for lack of a better word - humanity of many members who frequent these pages. So many forums I've haunted (mostly for purely greedy reasons, be it said) are filled with dudes (and dudettes) who seemingly use the internet to vent their spleen and little else. I do feel this place is different, though. Perhaps it's the nature of the fetish we all share (in one way or another). The androgynous implies, or at least suggests, the ability to view the world from more than one angle - an ability sadly lacking in many corners of the world (or web ). Ooops, just held a regular New Year's Speech there, didn't I?

"When I last wrote to you I said I had little to look forward to in the new year. Turns out I was stupidly optimistic."

Hope that's not the case for any of you guys -

Peace upon ye, and thanks for a great place to hang out.

[Pr0n_Glutton]

Unless you're being paid, you don't have that big of an obligation to the forum. Though, it's always is a good idea to mention what's going on if you plan not to be on the forum.

[Shenandoah]

The past 6 months have been excruciatingly painful, and I'm not out of the clear yet, either.

Earlier in the year I mentioned needing some staff to cover for me, alas, I decided to try and take care of things myself. Failure abound, I was always the last responder to Reports, if I got there at all.

Half the time I failed to participate in the forum. Occasionally I would post but I've probably the most lurkingest mod FP has.

Why was I gone for so long?

I had some trouble at school, a simple mistake that resulted in the failure of three classes. I am still upset over it, I am usually really good about college. Missed the deadline to purchase textbooks w/ financial aid, was broke, spent 3/4's of the term with no textbooks.

In addition to working retail (more specifically, maintenance), I was drained, I told my friends I hated Christmas and everyone who celebrated it because it promoted greed and irrational behavior.

To cheer me up futaman2024 bought me a buttload of steam games, which did cheer me up, but it also effectively distracted me from my duties here. I apologize for that... my thinking has been quite cloudy, like trudging through a murky swamp.

I'm working on these things, but it's going to take me awhile.

What can you see from me in the future?

1. More participation in the community. Responding to Reports quicker.
2. More Interaction with everyone. not necessarily more art from me, however.
3. More participation in IRC.

Any comments will be appreciated.

And again, I apologize for my absence.

--Amadeus

Hi ammy, don't sweat not being around at FP as much as you wanted to be.
You had priorities which came first and that's always the main thing. ^_^
Hope things get better for you in 2010. Hit me up if you wanna chat k?

It's OK man, sometimes life hits you and you gotta step away and heal and fix things up, the death of my father hit me hard and cause me to stay out of my college classes for so long that I got so far behind I had to drop them, thankfully the school understood, but I had to lie to my mom so 3 days a week I went tot he school and sat in the library.

Rest up fix up and come back swinging

Sorry to hear about your father >.<;
These days you are always very much happier and it proves people can overcome sad events and look to the future as you have ^_^ <3

I dont feel you need to be sorry about anything the holidays are indeed a difficult time for more everyone(unless you are filty rich sadly most of us are not)and hey i understand about school stuff i think you gotta do that before anything else. so no worrys

You're right. Ammy technically doesn't need to be sorry for what happened. And yeah Xmas is not the best time of the year for finances and stuff like that. And as far as the filthy rich goes, i doubt anyone at FP is filthy rich, especially with the way economies are going nowadays.

Life will do that, hit you like it means business. Been a strange year in many respects. Just wanted to say this: After having spent too much time (no doubt) in forums like this one I think I'm qualified to say that there are some pretty decent people hanging out in here. Time and again I'm struck by the - for lack of a better word - humanity of many members who frequent these pages. So many forums I've haunted (mostly for purely greedy reasons, be it said) are filled with dudes (and dudettes) who seemingly use the internet to vent their spleen and little else. I do feel this place is different, though. Perhaps it's the nature of the fetish we all share (in one way or another). The androgynous implies, or at least suggests, the ability to view the world from more than one angle - an ability sadly lacking in many corners of the world (or web ). Ooops, just held a regular New Year's Speech there, didn't I?

"When I last wrote to you I said I had little to look forward to in the new year. Turns out I was stupidly optimistic."

Hope that's not the case for any of you guys -

Peace upon ye, and thanks for a great place to hang out.

You're so right about that, which bad stuff can be powerful and knock you back alot. But here in this site I think we do have alot of wonderful members, it's very unique and very friendly ^_^ <3

Unless you're being paid, you don't have that big of an obligation to the forum. Though, it's always is a good idea to mention what's going on if you plan not to be on the forum.

Pr0n says it like it is.
None of the staff at FP are paid for what they do, it is a total voluntary thing we do here. We usually get told when staff are going to be dissapering for a while ^_^;

Shen.

[Runeless]

It's sweet of you to apologize, Amadeus! It makes me want to hug yo. Don't worry about it, we FPers will still love you!