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| 09 Aug 2013 06:31 AM |
This is a story I had posted in one of my threads that quickly died. It's a metaphor about ROBLOX. I thank Recruitsoldier for the long argument we had that inspired me to write this story.
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A small school was built in an old suburb. As construction continued, people visited and looked around the incomplete building. They liked what they saw and wanted to come when it was finished. As construction wore on, they started doing demonstration classes in the complete parts of the school building. Small numbers of people attended these classes, but it looked like it was going great.
When construction was finished, people came in large numbers. The school board, who ruled over the principal, wanted to expand the school building. Much to the students’ dismay, they changed the flag’s colors from red, white and blue to green, blue, and yellow. Students kept complaining but the teachers and principal said the change was for the best.
As expansion was finished, more people rushed in. To handle the large amount of students, the principal hired more inexperienced teachers to teach for lower salary. By this point students who came earlier were furious and held a protest in front of the school building. The protesters were expelled and classes continued.
The principal hired more teachers and the school board continued to expand the school. Within months it was the size of a small shopping mall. The principal and the school board decided to do another change to symbolize how far they had come. They changed the flag’s colors from green, blue, and yellow to purple, yellow and orange. Most people were angry but some just tried to calm others down, saying, “It’s just a flag. Who cares about the flag?”
A fight broke out in the locker room between supporters of the change and non-supporters. At the end, both had a bloody nose and bruises. The non-supporter was expelled and the supporter was given the rank of hall monitor.
The expelled students got angry and led a march against the school. They smashed windows, broke school supplies, and knocked over chairs. Some students were caught and sent to juvenile detention.
The principal decided to get some security cameras to help the school catch vandals. They were set up, and rumors went around the school that the principal was secretly watching you wherever you go.
A week later, another attack happened. This time they ransacked the cafeteria and painted graffiti on the principal’s desk. The graffiti read, “Haters gonna hate.”
The front office was closed down and the school board built a new office on the second floor, overlooking the hallways. No one dared to look behind them when they passed through the hallway, for fear of the principal thinking they are doing something suspicious. The principal decided to change the cafeteria food from their nice, gourmet home-made food to things liked canned soup and refried beans.
Non-supporters banded together and became known as the “Wizards of Freedom”. Their numbers were growing every day and the principal was under pressure by the school board. The principal declared any student caught even mentioning the Wizards of Freedom were to be immediately expelled.
The principal was absolutely swimming in cash, and decided to replace all their good-for-nothing teachers with Teach-Bots, that have programmable lessons and will teach the students in any subject.
The principal loved the Teach-Bots so much that he replaced his secretary and vice principal with modified versions. The bots would answer questions, but the technology was limited, so the principal fitted the bots with pre-made answers to the frequently asked questions.
But there were questions bots couldn’t answer.
“Where’s the cafeteria?” One student asked. “Take a right on Millham road and pull up to the parking lot immediately to your left.” The bot answered. “Are those the directions to get to the school? I want to know where the cafeteria is!” The student says sharply. “Take a right on Millham road and pull up to the parking lot immediately to your left.” The bot replies.
The student got angry and smashed the phone on the floor. Everyone in the hallway stared at him as a bot made its way through the crowd and carried him out of the school.
“Do not let them get away with this!” The student shouted. “Join the Wizards of Freedom!”
Days later, another question got to the bots without a real answer. The principal was in his office, filing papers and he heard something constantly repeating. The principal was annoyed and walked out to the bots’ room. “What’s going on?” The principal asked a bot. “A call, sir. We don’t know how to answer it.” The bot replies in its robotic tone. The principal picked up the phone.
“The Wizards will get you. The Wizards will get you.” The phone repeated.
“I want the police here RIGHT NOW! Anyone caught with their phone out will be expelled. Who could be calling?” The voice on the phone droned on even as the police arrived. After thirty minutes of searching the school, the police said, “Sir, no one in the school has their phone out.” But the phone kept droning on. It didn’t stop until the principal hung up.
“I’m worried.” He said to the police at last. “Why? You run the largest-profit school in the world!” The police respond cheerfully. “I receive threats.....blackmails.....every day....from these people.” The principal said, concerned. “I want your biggest possible squads stationed at my school for this next school year.”
“But sir...” The police officer in charge tried to start. “Officer, if your men catch fifteen Wizards of Freedom, you will get fifteen thousand dollars to split among your team. Your pay will be equivalent to the number you catch.” The principal says in a blank tone. “Well, in that case, sure!” Says the officer happily. “Let’s get started!”
No one was caught that week. Only one was caught in the entire month. Three months after the police offers were stationed around the school, another attack occurred after school hours. This time they burned down an entire classroom and the cafeteria food was all over the floor.
The rest is up to you.
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That was the story. It's long and a little rushed, but it should make sense. Thank you for reading. |
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Zeriten
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| 09 Aug 2013 06:33 AM |
WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH ROBLOX.
but i am crunching chips loudly and you are not |
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| 09 Aug 2013 06:35 AM |
>the wizards of freedom
I laughed. |
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| 09 Aug 2013 06:36 AM |
@Zer It was a metaphor if you bothered to read the introduction. |
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nairb
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| 09 Aug 2013 06:41 AM |
@zeriten
It is a metaphor that requires literary interpretation. The school is ROBLOX, the students as a whole are the entire ROBLOXian population, the Wizards of Freedom are the angry forum-goers (I was once one of them in 2009), the bots represent the automation of handling messages and reports, and it tells a tale about how greedy ROBLOX can become if left unchecked. |
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| 10 Aug 2013 08:23 AM |
| Thank you, nairb. Glad someone finally understands. |
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Souls25
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| 10 Aug 2013 08:32 AM |
| No metaphor is that long. A metaphor can hold only 4 sentences. |
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| 10 Aug 2013 08:35 AM |
tl:dr
end of disc
i am hungry
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kello17
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| 10 Aug 2013 08:36 AM |
Too Long..
I live in a cave with my pet bear |
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| 10 Aug 2013 05:23 PM |
@Souls
No no no no. You might be thinking of a poem or something - a metaphor doesn't have to be a few sentences. Your entire life story could be a metaphor. There is no limit to how long a metaphor could be, and I don't see why the fact it's long is a bad thing! |
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nairb
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| 11 Aug 2013 11:09 AM |
@OP
Sadly, most of the ROBLOXian population believes in Brevity is Wit. People will go "TL:DR" a lot, I've come to accept that.
And I've also come to accept that ROBLOX is greedy. |
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| 11 Aug 2013 11:10 AM |
tl;dr.
Also reported for spam.
_______________________ <~the necromancer of atr~> _______________________ <~copyright since 2013~> _______________________
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Rider450
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| 11 Aug 2013 11:19 AM |
| i like op's story and the story's message |
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| 13 Aug 2013 06:26 AM |
| Thank you, rider. And what is tl;dr and why do they keep shooing off my story my spamming it? |
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| 14 Aug 2013 11:28 AM |
I liked the story. But what I didn't get was what the cafeteria had to do with it. You kept on mentioning it.
I liked it still though |
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nairb
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| 14 Aug 2013 11:30 AM |
@elitestar123
The metaphor can be altered depending on someone's view.
It's either Places, the forums, or the Catalog. |
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icewolf4
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| 14 Aug 2013 12:07 PM |
I don't even...
"If you're mad, I win." |
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| 14 Aug 2013 01:11 PM |
I enjoyed reading this c:
awsom gramr is awsom |
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nairb
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| 14 Aug 2013 01:14 PM |
Let me add this metaphor.
There are bullies, beating up poor, innocent students left and right. They cause the innocents to fear for their safety, with some taking up the arts of bullying and others leaving the school or ending themselves because of it. The Wizards of Freedom wish to end the bullying. |
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lashers
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| 14 Aug 2013 01:17 PM |
@ nairb
Nothing is destined to remain preserved forever, and I find that's the epitome of the defiant population's ire.
If you're unpleased by the route ROBLOX has taken, there's very little you can do, really. They've made their mind, and the odds of them reverting to the "older" ROBLOX mechanics is dangling by a small margin. Accept that. |
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nairb
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| 14 Aug 2013 01:22 PM |
@lashers
I don't know which specific post you are replying to, but I'm leaving Old ROBLOX behind and changing New ROBLOX for the better. |
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