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Offline titanic3

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Re: HiTech Retirement
« Reply #15 on: November 18, 2011, 10:39:32 PM »
Put yourself in the position of being the asked instead of the asker.



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Call me clueless, but I still don't get why everyone is all upset about it.
Imagine I own a big company, say "Bob's Brewery", I know I can't work forever, and so do my workers, one of them comes up to me and asks "Who's going to take over after you retire?" I would answer "*insert name here*".

What's wrong with that? :headscratch:
I'm not offending anyone, nor am I implying that the owner of the company should quit. No idea why the hell everyone is getting their pants in a knot.

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Offline Jayhawk

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Re: HiTech Retirement
« Reply #16 on: November 18, 2011, 10:49:56 PM »
It's just generally not an acceptable social question, especially for someone who is probably a long ways away from retirement and someone you don't know personally.  You generally don't ask total strangers how much they weight, or how much money they make.  They are just acquired social skills one attains as you get older.
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Offline EskimoJoe

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Re: HiTech Retirement
« Reply #17 on: November 18, 2011, 11:10:33 PM »
It's just generally not an acceptable social question, especially for someone who is probably a long ways away from retirement and someone you don't know personally.  You generally don't ask total strangers how much they weight, or how much money they make.  They are just acquired social skills one attains as you get older.

Yes, I completely agree, but I do think it's a legitimate question to be asked.

I myself have wondered the same thing. What would happen of Hitech passed away? Would the community be able to stick
together? Would the team be able to function regardless? These thoughts frighten me.

I've seen one game fail and die because the owner had unexpectedly passed away without a plan of management.
The people took over and became corrupt, it all went to hell, and everybody left and it was removed from existence.

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Offline MachFly

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Re: HiTech Retirement
« Reply #18 on: November 18, 2011, 11:12:28 PM »
It's just generally not an acceptable social question, especially for someone who is probably a long ways away from retirement and someone you don't know personally.  You generally don't ask total strangers how much they weight, or how much money they make.  They are just acquired social skills one attains as you get older.

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Re: HiTech Retirement
« Reply #19 on: November 18, 2011, 11:14:02 PM »
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I know where your coming from but I recommend you remove that, might be taken offensively. (at least the 2nd paragraph)
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Offline guncrasher

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Re: HiTech Retirement
« Reply #20 on: November 19, 2011, 12:45:21 AM »
people say stupid things.


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Re: HiTech Retirement
« Reply #21 on: November 19, 2011, 12:47:17 AM »
Oh, so random lunacy rather than an actual reference to some piece of news?

Okay, whatever. Moving on.

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