Dear Day

[_chuchu]

I probably won't be around, but I thought it was Tsu's fortress

[Sera]

A mild comment about a relatively lackluster city is far from h8, you subscribed to the exact same line of thinking for god knows how long anyway. It's not hate to say that richmond has less to offer than a more properly connected urban area, it's just the actual case.

THEN GO SOMEWHERE ELSE LOL

i love seeing you contradict yourself

i'm not saying i hate richmond but these are all reasons to hate it etc

just leave and go somewhere else, shit dude

[Ivve]

rl border patrol? it's more likely than you think!

[Charismatic]

Uh, I don't think Sera knows what hate is.

[Sera]

nah i do, i had to listen to this stupid bullshit for months last time he lived here

its like, he moved someplace he didnt know, hated it, moved away again because he hated it

and moved back? lol seriously

[Sera]

i mean he has the opportunity to live basically anywhere he wants now, being that he has no ties to anywhere atm

like chicago? go live there dude! you don't have anything tying you anywhere. i just don't see the logic.

its like you move someplace you can't stand just so you have license to bitch about something, idgi

[Lokky]

Uhm, correct me if I am wrong, but in order to complain about lack of stuff to do in any given place you would be required to, you know.... go outside?

[Lokky]

I mean I could sit here and complain about the lack of weaboo shit to do too, or I could haul ass to Japan, rent a 3x2 meters room, never have to worry about taking long to do chores and live the life!

[Lokky]

eat melon bread, drink evangelion coffee and shit weaboo

[Ryko]

nah i do, i had to listen to this stupid bullshit for months last time he lived here

Sad part is you agreed. Either to placate me or because you actually agreed.

its like, he moved someplace he didnt know, hated it

Right

moved away again because he hated it

Wrong, and it's pretty ridiculous for you to even state that.

and moved back? lol seriously

Yep, and I already gave reasons why.

Like I said, it's not hate to state plain fact. I'm not sitting here trashing everything about richmond, but spade's a spade. You're gonna talk about how I'm vague and cryptic and then talk about how there's so much shit to do in richmond and then not actually state anything, what exactly is there that I didn't really cover?

[Charismatic]

I still don't think Sera knows what hate is.

[Ivve]

not to give myself away as an alcoholic, but what do people do for fun regularly other than go out drinking, dancing, eating, seeing movies, and maybe going to concerts? of course there are other things like going to beaches or "mudding" if you're from the south, but a lot of that sort of activity is regional. just seems pretty typical to me; what's lacking other than the transportation system?

also, just counting things you have to leave your house to do really. can't blame any particular city for your friend's lack of guitar hero!

[Ryko]

Over the course of the summer, there was the come out and play festival, there was the third avenue market, for nerds there's ctf, forbidden planet, web2zone, and a multitude of other gaming places. Shopping a drag because you have to drive an hour out and then another hour back? I've been within 3 stops of a shopping mall 4 times this past summer, and not the same mall. You already covered movies and I already covered the fact that a metro provides people with the ability to go out pretty much anywhere in the city and drink without needing to drag someone who doesn't along to avoid DUI charges or, y'know, dying. I've went to a number of events at both NYU and Poly Tech and I spent about a week total in NY. Those only really covered my interests and the relevant spots in the last 6 weeks but this is rather silly. I made one idle comment about how a metro system opens possibilities, you agreed, and day pretty much flat out said it'd be silly to compare NYC and Richmond, and then sera starts wigging thinking I'm saying how the town would be better served razed.

Hell, this time I came to richmond with a slightly better all around plan and much better prepared (it took me about 2 months to get what I needed to do done to get an interview at a place I wasn't qualified for, I established job experience and had another interview lined up before I even stepped foot into VA this time around) and shit's working on a better time table, I'm not sitting around talking about how the place sucks and I can't do anything wah wah wah, I just threw a rather plain faced comparison and it's carrying on because someone wants to make it out to be something it isn't when she acts like she came back down here because she missed it, what a joke.

[Ivve]

i've seen both the seafood festival and the watermelon festival going on in the last couple of months. i'm sure that's just the things that popped up on facebook; not necessarily everything that was going on. i don't see the downside of not having a metro when you live inside the city, and to return from a night of drinking you can literally just walk a couple of blocks to get home.

also, she wasn't complaining about taking an hour to and from a mall; i was. i live out in the boonies, over an hour's drive away from where sera is. i don't know richmond well, but she looked like she was located in a relatively decent area in terms of what you have close at hand. does richmond not do buses? it's no train, but it is public transportation that will take you where you need to go, which rules out drunk driving if you live a decent distance from a bar and need to get home. if you can ride the metro drunk, you can ride a bus drunk.

i'm not trying to fight you or anything; that was a sincere question. just wondering how many things are really lacking.

[Ryko]

also, she wasn't complaining about taking an hour to and from a mall; i was.

Can we work on the assumption that I know who I'm responding to? Twice in your last two posts you've attempted to correct me on who I'm speaking to as if I don't actually read. I know you (and by this I mean both of you) are trying this whole "he's just thoroughly confused/confusing" angle right now but seriously, stop trying to correct me on who I'm talking to, I'm not mixing shit up. That entire post was directed at you (ivve) because it was responding specifically to you(ivve). Hence why I stated "you", then used the names for day and sera to differentiate that they were not the "you" in my paragraph. Fine, I didn't quote you but seriously the context should have made that obvious.

By "the entire post", I mean including but not limited to the hour to get to the mall reference.

Before you mention "well I dont see how that changes anything since that's not a difference between richmond and a city with a metro, but rather a difference between a suburb and a city with a metro", I will say that I know that and I just threw it in there because richmond is about an hour from you but I won't state that I assumed that's where you'd be headed to go shopping. It was an idle reference.

does richmond not do buses? it's no train, but it is public transportation that will take you where you need to go, which rules out drunk driving if you live a decent distance from a bar and need to get home. if you can ride the metro drunk, you can ride a bus drunk.

It does buses that end rather early. For actually getting around during the day yeah the buses give you options, I'll admit as much. If you want to get back home past like 10:30 you're looking for a DD or a cab.

[Ivve]

Before you mention "well I dont see how that changes anything since that's not a difference between richmond and a city with a metro, but rather a difference between a suburb and a city with a metro", I will say that I know that and I just threw it in there because richmond is about an hour from you but I won't state that I assumed that's where you'd be headed to go shopping. It was an idle reference.

It does buses that end rather early. For actually getting around during the day yeah the buses give you options, I'll admit as much. If you want to get back home past like 10:30 you're looking for a DD or a cab.

parenthesis. learn them, love them. off topic comments just thrown into the middle of what you're saying can be confusing at times. i know people shit all over grammar, but some of us need those visual cues for some things to know when you're making idle references and when you're actually stating that as part of your point.

other than that, cabs don't sound so bad. if anything, the cost will keep you from being drunk off your ass outside your house every night. that doesn't sound like a bad thing to me.

[Ryko]

Okay, I didn't use parentheses, my bad. Otherwise the fact that the paragraph was directed at you contextually was pretty obvious.

[Ivve]

i'm not doubting it was directed at me, ryko. i just didn't really know if you were comparing richmond to NY or where i'm living to NY since when i read it, it looked like you had just mixed the two together.

[Ryko]

Well all clear then.

[Ivve]

this conversation is also kind of a generalization about what makes the metro better than not having one. i was really more interested in what you particularly are missing now that you're living in richmond. do you really spend that much time drunk outside your living space that getting a cab or a designated driver is like a big deal? it's so expensive to drink (for me anyway; i don't care for beer) that about 90% of the time i end up just drinking at home due to the cost. if i've gone out and blown $100 on a bar tab, an extra $15 to get a cab home (depending on distance, obviously) to keep me from ending the night in a body bag or in a police station doesn't seem unreasonable. i mean if i've already spent that much, clearly i've got money to spend anyway. the cab isn't what's breaking me and around here and DC, they're everywhere.

also, are all the bars in NY like right next to the metro station? i've had a couple of my friends busted for being drunk in public. is that not a big concern for the cops in NY or what?