User blog comment:Blankslate/Regarding the New Years, the Past, and possibly the Future/@comment-18812574-20160101195240

Blank, I think you took the thing with the American vs. Japanese driver's licenses a little too seriously. Everyone one of us makes mistakes like that: because, after all, we're Americans/Scots/Norweigan/Indonesian/Polish/etc., not Japanese. More than anything that was me being a cultural nuance Nazi. I egged on some other RPers around the same time for drinking tea incorrectly at a Captain's meeting, if I remember correctly. I never knew it would hit you so hard. Sorry about that. (At the same time this is, to this day... strangely humorous to me for some reason....)

As for the imaginative control thing in RPs: I think most of us suffer from the same problem. I myself am no exception. But what is more important than stepping on a few toes is sticking to a project. The FC is a collaboration that everyone is a part of, after all. We can't blame any one person for its success, likewise we can't blame any one person for its failure.

I know the wiki has been harsh when it comes to casting blame on you and the way you handled Kraven as being the reason why we floundered, but honestly there was a lot more underfoot than that. Plus I got the impression that you were getting burned out with the FC at the time, and it's hard to stay original and motivated when that happens. Personally, looking back, I really did enjoy Kraven as a villain, and I wish we would have seen more of him and what he could do. The hardest part in this is figuring out where the good is in the not-so-good and writing towards that end. In other words, writing what works.

Blank, like your username, maybe this is a good time for all of us to start fresh. The past is past, let bygones be bygones, and all that great shit.