elrond99

Well I've tried pretty much everything I can think of. So if it doesn't just spontaneously start working on its own, I'll have to cancel my subscription.

No, I get into the game, I see everyone, can chat or interact with people. But my profile is blank (and everyone else's profiles are blank), my friends list is blank, and it shows I have 0 gold. I assume there's some sort of database where all that stuff is stored and the game needs to link to it.

I'm having this same issue. I have a brand new laptop and installed the game. Can't connect (can't see my profile, friends, gold, etc.). I followed all the steps in the FAQ, nothing worked. Then I literally just disabled my entire firewall, and it still won't work. If I have no firewall active at all, I don't see why it won't connect.

Not that I want to get involved in crazy political debates, but Trump is on record as saying that he will select a new Supreme Court Justice with the intention of overturning Roe v. Wade. So that "process to decide that legally" could easily come to pass now. Abortion is already extremely difficult to actually obtain in many southern states. I'm just glad I live in Canada.

Please excuse my long-winded rambling. This is just something I wanted to put out into the world. Whether anyone even reads it or not is beside the point. I contemplated throwing this in the Open Forum, as it's mostly /ooc stuff, but I suppose it really is my diary in a sense. I discovered this game almost a year ago now, and have played off and on since then. I initially approached it just as an extension of the type of RP (or ERP, I guess) that I was already enjoying in other places – F-List and a certain WoW server mostly. This seemed like a pretty natural progression, combining descriptive writing with some slick graphics. And that’s all it was for me at first – just a game. It was fun to chat with people casually, but mostly it was just a sex game. I’m sure there are a lot of people who approach it the same way. As my friend list started to grow, and I met more and more cool people, I realized that there was a lot more to the social aspect of this game – it’s not just a place to get off when you’re horny. But I was always leery of any sort of romantic connection made through a game like this. I’ve had a very spotty history with online relationships. I get attached quickly, and I’ve been catfished more than once. It’s painful, and it’s made me skeptical of women that I meet online. It’s unfortunate, but our experiences shape who we are, and I’ve had some negative ones to deal with. A little over a month ago, I met a girl in game. I’ve probably talked to hundreds of girls in game (at least their avatars were female!), but there was just something different about this conversation. I liked her right away. We started hanging out regularly. We talked about RL stuff openly. We didn’t even have sex in the sex game until like the fourth time we met up. I found myself liking her more and more each time we talked. She got me onto the forums so that we could PM each other outside the game. I opened up to her about things that I don’t open up to people about. I can’t explain why. She just seemed so approachable, so accepting. I told her all my secrets. I made myself completely vulnerable to her. And she didn’t throw it back in my face. She embraced me, pulled me in tighter. And in that moment, I knew she had me. I was defenseless. No one had ever wanted me like that before. We talked constantly, laughed, enjoyed one another, had a few spats and disagreements, worked through them, always came out smiling. I genuinely relished every moment with her. I came to realize that this woman was probably not everything that I wanted in a partner, but she was everything that I needed in a partner. She encouraged me to put my best foot forward. She was beautiful and smart and resilient and passionate. She could be infuriating and stubborn and abrupt, too, but I kind of liked that fiery side of her. I admired her perseverance, having been through so much in her own life. I know it sounds silly, given that I’d only known her for five weeks or so, but I started to think about a possible future. I read a post on this forum recently where someone said that time in a world like this seems to pass much faster than the real world, and I believe that now. Mostly out of curiosity, I started looking into job opportunities and houses for sale in her city – just in case things worked out, I wanted a plan. I’m a little obsessive about planning ahead. Maybe that’s creepy, I’m not sure. All I know is that everything felt real. Everything felt perfect. And then I fucked it all up. She did something for me out of kindness. And instead of trusting her, I questioned her. I hurt her. I threw her act of kindness back in her face, the way she didn’t when I had opened up to her. I betrayed her, and I'm sorry, and I have to live with that now. I ruined something that might have amounted to nothing, or might have blossomed into something beautiful. I may never know. I wish I could take it back, but it’s too late for that now. It happened. My past issues crept into my mind, and lunged out at the worst possible moment. They’re always there, lurking in the darkness. That’s the problem with having ghosts in your past – they always come back to haunt you. I let my previous painful experiences with online relationships lead me to hurting the person who didn’t hurt me when she so easily could have. I’m not writing this because I’m looking for advice on how to salvage things. That ship may have already sailed. If she chooses to come back to me, I will welcome her with open arms. If she decides she needs time to think things through, I will give her that space and be ready when she is. If she never wants to speak to me again, then I’ll just fade away, becoming a distant memory of things that might have been. I’m also not writing this because I want to be beat up about it anymore. I know I fucked up. And I can add that to the list of regrets I’ve piled up over the years. The reason I’m writing this is because I want to leave some physical impression on the universe that these last five weeks actually happened for both of us. The ups and the downs. The smiles and the tears. I know it all meant something to me. I think it meant something to her too. I may never know for sure. I’ll always care about her, and I’ll always be sorry for what I did. I don’t even mind if no one ever reads this post. I just want it to be out there somewhere. Think of this as me carving a big heart into a tree trunk and marking the initials “J + C” into the centre. Something that I can wander back to every now and then and smile fondly as I remember those five weeks, and try to forget the way they ended.

I have an unrelated, but similar issue, with PlayOnMac - since I installed the 2.0 client last week, I have no screenshot folder. In 1.0, if I took a screenshot, it went into the default screenshot folder, but that doesn't seem to exist for me in 2.0. All my hot pictures are gone! Anyone else have that problem on a Mac?