The Town of Odyssey

TigerintheShadows wrote:

Cbriggs45 wrote: can get 15 dollars a month easy if you actually try most of you people on this board are smart enough you just seem not to have the drive to. but hey i get it. i am not trying to insult or attack it just seems like a lot of people do more whinning about this club than actually doing any action.

So basically, you're telling people who probably have other things on which to spend their money that, essentially, they're too lazy to get fifteen bucks a month to pay for this, and this is somehow not an attack on anyone...?

"Most of us people on this board"--or at least quite a few of us, and certainly those who have been complaining--are high school students, college students and young adults, demographics that are well-known for needing tight budget plans. Not all in the demographic have such a need, but many of us do. I have to pay on my own for anything that isn't essential to my survival as a human being, and when I graduate and go to college, I'll have pay for most of those essentials, too. If I ever want to go on a church trip, I have to pay for some of it, many of the prices three, four, or even five times as much as the cost for a year in this club. I'm preparing to study art in college, and I have to pay for my own art supplies, many of which are quite expensive (48 Prismacolor colored pencils cost upward of $100, for example.) Put frankly, I don't have time to get a job; I take eight classes, almost all of which require a considerable amount of effort just to get low A's in, and I don't need to deal with the stress of a job on top of it. My parents wouldn't pay for it; our family budget in total isn't exactly as loose as we'd like it to be, and we on my planet have these magical things called bills that we kind of have to pay each month, not to mention the fact that many of the things in my house are something like fifteen years old, and need fixing--repairs that cost money.

I doubt I'm alone. Not everyone on this earth is that well-off, and even if they are, it's not laziness or lack of motivation that keeps people from wanting to spend fifteen bucks a month for this thing--they have to take into account that real life exists, and that real life costs money. It's great and all that you're able to share Odyssey with your relatives--by all means, do. The club is clearly worth the money in that case. But for those of us who can't afford it--not won't, can't--to say that we simply don't have the drive to scrounge up fifteen dollars each month that can and should go to much more important expenses is an attack, whether you're trying to make it one or not, and is an unfounded one at that, especially since you also accuse us of not taking any action, which explains the countless posts in this thread concerning members of this board who have taken their complaints to Focus every which way they can.

So you're not trying to "insult or attack," yet you go ahead and say that we're "whinning [sic]," and are "petty and or spoiled brats" who don't have the drive to do anything. Ergo, we're a bunch of lazy bums who expect everything to come our way without doing anything. Then what, pray tell, is this thread all about? We have offered various solutions and contacted Focus over the months, but nothing has really come out of it. However, we are not whining for the mere sake of whining because we don't have anything better to do. Implying that we're a bunch of lazy slackers and then also assuming that we lack the drive to do anything is both an insult to our characters and an egregious presumption on your part. Your attitude towards those of us in this whole thread has been somewhat condescending and patronizing, and it's really not appreciated. Please refrain from making such assumptions in the future and then tacking on a disclaimer that none of this is "trying to insult or attack," because really, that's exactly what you've done.