Everyone,
The other night SenorBeef very politely asked if he could “de-friend” me on Steam because, honestly, I’m never around playing multiplayer games. I certainly understand the desire to prune your friends list to people you actively play with - god knows I’ve got some people on my list I might remember what game I used to play with them but that’s about it.
It occurred to me when SenorBeef asked me that I should probably inform everyone of my situation right now. Things at my office have gotten incredibly stressful for me lately. I’ve got an unreasonable management chain that is constantly forcing me to make impossible decisions and continually intimates that if I fail at anything I will not only be unemployed, the 8 people on my team I lead will be let go as well.
The stress and, honestly, sheer hopelessness of the situation makes it tough for me to be anything but depressed. I’m now seeing a counselor to try to find ways to deal with this. The unfortunate reality, for me, is that when I get home I generally want to “curl up and hide” in a single player game (like I’m sure many of you have seen me playing night after night). With my mood so foul I have not wanted to engage in any multiplayer activity for fear of saying something I’d regret to people that have only been nice to me.
I’ll update this thread when things start to improve and ask to re-join this great circle of friends and players. Until then, please excuse my absence from any SDMB multiplayer games.