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For now at least. I always seem to come back to the site for a few weeks and drop it for three months. We'll see how permanent my stay is this time, especially since I found a good rp to join this time. Speaking of which, to all you Barton Towners that come across this: What the Hell! My* Beloved Barton Town forum has been overrun by uninteresting crap! I was looking through all this stuff, and it made me actually miss the days when forest rps were as numerous as the trees in a forest**. At least I could just skip over the bulk of the crap rps, but now they all have these clever little names*** that might be interesting but ultimately aren't.

Also, posts have come along way. Back in my day, colering and resizing your post was excessive, top of the line beautification. Nowadays if you wanna feel special you gotta add pictures and animated gifs and a personal quote and crap. Its all very pretty, but waaay too much work for me xp

Though I can see a use for putting your picture in every post, make it easier for people to know what you look like.

In any case, I guess I should dispense some food for thought or something. I dunno. I guess this, since I recently went through having to listen to this crap from a friends mom: Do you think food stamps or some other food service should be a right to any citizen of a country that can afford a program for it, or is it a privilege? I'll go first with my usual middle ground argument: I think any country that can afford it should provide the basics for anyone who is too poor to have them (though if they are working poor, probably better to try and raise minimum wage), however, this should be something embarrassing. Not like throw food in their face embarrassing, but it should be something people don't want to have to do.Because if its a system that encourages using it, its just a crutch.

* Not actually mine
** Awesome analogy of awesome and any who say different are obviously not awesome enough to see the awesome
*** Not all of them do, but dammit, nostalgia tells me that more of em do!