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This article about TEF made me very upset.

I just have to rant a bit about this thing. We all need to complain sometimes when somebody offends you.

Here's an article that I believe many TEF fans have already read, if not, maybe you should.

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/mmo-roulette/endlessforest.php

It made me very upset to read this, since I have been roaming the Endless Forest with my character Shulgalaj for several years and still love the game. The article is not only badly written, but also highly offending to those who play regularly.

The article seems to not have understood that all games do not need to be conventionally structured with rules, verbal/literal communication, a goal and obstacles.

The writer of the article diagnoses us all as crazy for playing this game with the argument that "there is absolutely nothing to do in this game". I do not see how that would make a point, since I, for example, play this game just to wander around in a peaceful virtual reality and simply enjoy myself together with others. Sure, the communication skills of your character are not far too high, but the simple body language of the deer is easy to understand. And there is really no need for long, complicated discussions in this game; if you want that, just don't play it.

I think the writer is the kind of person who has never been close to nature and therefor does not understand to enjoy it; and then even less so, a virtual nature. Probably it is a person who does not understand how healthy it can be to just sit down and enjoy doing nothing at all for a little while so all the knots of stress in your body starts to loosen up. I do not think you must be crazy to enjoy that. I do not, either, believe in your theory that this game is nonsense only because "there is nothing to do". I think this game might be good for you; you might learn how to appreciate the smaller things in life.

The author clearly does not understand the other point of it all; this is fun.
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A tribute to the Forest

I made a little tribute video to TEF. Click picture to watch it Laughing out loud


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A study of Death - poem

A study of Death


Come and see! Come and see!
She dances on the grave of dignity
Hear the tunes of music playing
Dead feet moving, body swaying

Behind her see the starry night
Hear the screams of pain and fright
Of the burning piety false
From within the canting walls

Peasant and knight, both in the game
King and queen, for them the same
Dancing on the board of chess
Who's playing the time, can you guess?

Grim riders four appear in the sky
Can you hear their silent cry?
One is white, one is red
One is black and one is dead!

Stirring the cauldron; witches three
Making the poison of destiny
Death the only determined is
Thus, what is the meaning of this?

It's forever and everywhere, you see
It comes to you, it comes to me
No matter where you flee or hide
Beside you Death will always ride.


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Until spring returns

I look at the wide plain of deeply green and silk-soft grass
I watch the swaying tree tops, slowly stretching to the sky
I feel the rising wind, with a fragrance of approaching autumn
And the golden leaves fall - as if they're tears of the forest

Soon the frost shall caress our home and soon the snow will be falling
And I hear the winds growing in strenght
soon wolves will be calling
And I go to sleep until spring returns.
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Thinkin of comics again ^^

gonna make something I think yea. Smiling random ---

The troubles of a buck


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Another poem.

Dark tunnel

Emptiness and cries in pain
nothing more can soothe your soul
when all you done feels as in vain
you're dark and empty like a hole

a light in the tunnel
it's just the bulb hanging in the cracked roof of your mind
cry, cry louder than you can
until you vomit up your guts

all in vain
still so lonely


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My music videos



Actually (and surprisingly, with my lack of talent), I make music.
Due to its weirdness I use the code name to hide the fact that it is me behind the rubbish.

You can in fact download, listen to, or read about it on last.fm, for free, even.
I am not commercializing it here, folks. Sorry if it seems like it. Sad







Here's the list of my music videos.
If I make any new ones I'll put the link in the bottom of the list.
They all are on youtube.

Shore of Stillness

Solstorm

Voice in the Wind

Withered Branches

The Maiden of the Night
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Cutest elk calf ever. Video.

http://cheezburger.com/View/12297473

He's playing in the puddle! ^^
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Weird creature in the forest... Animated movie



I have made a funny little animation with a strange creature (a "snurkmurk") who is seeking someone
who will be his friend... but all the animals of the forest are afraid of him. *wipes a tear off my chin*
View it here. (or click the picture)
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Poem: The Kind-Hearted Tree





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A woman wanders through the night
her pale face drip with tears of fright
her dress in morning dew is soaked
and in her steady grip...
a rope

Blooming fully, the apple tree
standing as her butcher to be
from the limb to which its bound...

The rope goes to her neck around.

Despair has driven her this far
soon ended is her memoir
she climbs the apple tree to fall
but succeeds she?

Not at all.

Old is tree with trunk and limb
so her faith is much more grim
the branch breaks, her feet meet the earth
her face isn't covered in blood...
but dirt.

A woman wanders through the sun
knowing, her life isn't done
escaped her own verdict, so brute
hanging in the tree, no woman,
but fruit

She smiles and tastes the apple it bears
and waters the tree again with her tears
they fall no more in fear or grief
but in joy of living,

and of relief.



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