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    Quote Originally Posted by BTPoke View Post
    If I may input something that's not overly ridiculous, I think I'll do that.

    Considering I have some (incredibly slight, admittedly) experience reffing, I may as well inform you that some people don't exactly have a surplus of a certain something known as "motivation"

    When one tries something new (in this case, reffing), of course they're going to enjoy doing it, being really enthusiastic and enjoying what they do. However, for some people, that tends to die down a bit. I was one of those people, and my reffings started to suffer. A lot.

    I don't know if Emerald is one of those people (hell, it could be that he has next to NO time on his hands due to RL, which is understandable), but I don't fault him for it. Motivation comes and goes, but I'll tell you one thing.

    Simply pointing out someone's faults isn't really helping much to fix it. Especially if that problem has to do with motivation.
    I do understand that, but you have to live up to your commitments if you take them on. I don't think I'm being unreasonable for getting pissed off because he promised to do something and isn't doing it. Motivation or not, you should not commit if you're unable to actually do the thing.

    And, Em, if you can't find the time to do if, if there are no free half an hours in your life at the moment, just let someone else take the battle. I know its just me being selfish, but I'd like to actually get it finished, this happens to me in all ASBs, the only finished battle, in the past two months, in three ASBs I am in, only one has actually been finished.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aerbrodactyl View Post
    I do understand that, but you have to live up to your commitments if you take them on. I don't think I'm being unreasonable for getting pissed off because he promised to do something and isn't doing it. Motivation or not, you should not commit if you're unable to actually do the thing.

    And, Em, if you can't find the time to do if, if there are no free half an hours in your life at the moment, just let someone else take the battle. I know its just me being selfish, but I'd like to actually get it finished, this happens to me in all ASBs, the only finished battle, in the past two months, in three ASBs I am in, only one has actually been finished.
    As far as I'm concerned, Emerald intends to live up to his commitments, so you have nothing to worry about when it comes to that. It may just take him slightly longer to do so, however, and rushing him is not helping matters.

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    Also may I point out that for some people take a bit longer to ref things...

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    Quote Originally Posted by BTPoke View Post
    As far as I'm concerned, Emerald intends to live up to his commitments, so you have nothing to worry about when it comes to that. It may just take him slightly longer to do so, however, and rushing him is not helping matters.
    I think I've been more than generous with the time. I'm hardly rushing him asking him to take 30 minutes more than once every two weeks to do something he said he'd do.

    This may just be me,, but if I found myself busy enough I couldn't do that, I'd happily step down and let someone else take it so the battle could be finished before the New Year.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aerbrodactyl View Post
    I think I've been more than generous with the time. I'm hardly rushing him asking him to take 30 minutes more than once every two weeks to do something he said he'd do.
    Quote Originally Posted by Emerald_Gen.3 View Post
    Also may I point out that for some people take a bit longer to ref things...
    Sometimes it takes longer than 30 minutes to ref a round, aerbro. Some (such as me, when I used to ref) take longer than even an hour.

    Of course, for me, it was mostly due to a somewhat lowered attention span that it took a longer time, but I lived with it.

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    OK lets just get back to happy subjects, I've dropped the reffing so if you're happy about that good but if not then too bad. Back to happier subjects.This is the new evil team of Pokemon X and Y


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    Quote Originally Posted by Emerald_Gen.3 View Post
    OK lets just get back to happy subjects, I've dropped the reffing so if you're happy about that good but if not then too bad. Back to happier subjects.This is the new evil team of Pokemon X and Y

    cool team magma got a rename, also wasn't destroying the universe then creating a new one what platinum was about?

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    I think this teams gonna be a sassier Team Magma(If this team doesn't have a sassy male leader just because of these outfits, I'm going to flip my shit) and according to bulbapedia their sole purpose is money.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BTPoke View Post
    Sometimes it takes longer than 30 minutes to ref a round, aerbro. Some (such as me, when I used to ref) take longer than even an hour.

    Of course, for me, it was mostly due to a somewhat lowered attention span that it took a longer time, but I lived with it.
    That was actually more of an immature hit at the quality of the reffing.

    I better stop now, I've probably destroyed every positive opinion of me on here

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