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PERSONAL LOG ENTRY #2501
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AUTHOR: Malcom D.
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I decided to start with my journal again. Sometimes things
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feel so damn wrong, beyond recovery, and keeping some
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annotations on the daily frustrations seems to help.
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Everything started roughly ten fortnights ago, when I
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entered my current guild.
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Back then I wanted some fresh air (difficult to find in
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space, ha ha!), after my previous guild decided to change
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the nature of their business. I'm specialized in certain
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kind of spaceships, and those new Xhoreargrf-based models
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are such a hyped, complex mess! I got lured by some
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announcement on Rendezvous. Hell, I even dismissed
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Captain's credits bump offer for it!
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I could not know it was a trap. I should have stayed.
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If only Ryba wasn't full of it when he claimed they've
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invented a time machine! I would now spend those extra
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credits to get back in time and tell myself not to take this
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job!
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Anyway, I started to work for these geniuses! And guess
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what? Xhoreargrf components, again! Well, that stuff is
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popular, what can I say? I should probably just get used to
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it. Everyone does business on Nznmba, these days and it is
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Xhoreargrf everywhere. It seems like nobody gives a rat's
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ass about quality and mastership.
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Here's the thing, though: even if I liked those components,
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my current crew is full of noobs. They don't know (and feel
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free to ignore) all the details that make the difference
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between a proper control panel and the sandbox where little
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Tom plays. Yet they call themselves experts. Kids with
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fancy tools and lots of arrogance.
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I spent at least two fortnights trying to fix the synthesiser
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in order to have at least some decent artifacts.
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Impossible. Everything is so cheap, and nobody seems to
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know, or care. After all, they don't pay fuel out of their
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pocket.
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Eventually I decided I had enough of it, so it's time to
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leave these kids. If anything Jane won't bother to move to
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another sector: she hates this place too. And Tom is so
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young he will hardly notice.
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EOF
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