See, this is what I was talking about.

Looking forward to it.

Aside from that I take parties seriously, we get enough death and destruction in our daily existence, so anything that brings us more in touch with humanity is a good thing.

I think you know what I take seriously, Elsebeth. The contents on the IGS doesn't tend to rate that level of attention, anymore. For the most part, anyway. This is mostly because you're right. The capsuleers and contents here and on other public fora have for the most part descended into parodies of what was, spineless lip-service and conflict-averse ephemera that stands for nothing when push comes to shove.

The greatest threats or concerns to be found are crimson clowns and certain cliques that occasionally swarm and then fade back into irrelevancy, and nothing of substance ever gets built or pursued it'd seem.

What is there to take seriously here, other than a vanishingly small number of individuals? It'd appear the kind of people who frequent this sort of place are also the kind who don't actually tend to be worth taking seriously out there in New Eden, so this place follows suit.

So, you know what kind of thing I take seriously, and we don't really do much of anything that qualifies as such, do we Elsebeth? Or dear whoever else is the reader. In short, this place and its denizens doesn't get taken seriously because no one here hardly ever does anything worth taking seriously.

Uh-- Miz, Arrendis?

Not that you apparently care a lot, but maybe you could take this discussion into the "Off Topic" thread? It seems to be a tangent to the original question, here, and I'd really like to see other people's answers.

I seriously despise people with sticks up their butt.