Okay, so I'll make this RELATIVELY short... I've enjoyed my time here in IC  and will look back on it fondly. But it's time for me to move on to bigger and better things in my life and that's why I am officially retiring.

My list of ppl to thank was so long that I actually posted a list completely separate to this thread.
So... stick around for a minute and I'll tell you what I plan to do with my post IC life...
But first I'd like to make a public service announcement of sorts:

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If you're smart, you'll follow my example, and leave this game, and won't half ass it like UD either, you'll just make a clean break. Honestly, think of all the things in real life you could be doing right this minute. Think about the real life friends or gf u neglect in order to play this game. Whether you make a conscious decision to or not...

Go outside and breath in the fresh air, or call a (real life) friend and make plans to go out. Just don't sit behind a computer screen all day letting life pass you by cause it's too short. I quit IC at the end of high school and lived without it for a majority of my college years... but I think I missed out on a large part of my last year in college because of this game.

When I took a walk around campus on my last day in town, I reminisced, about what happened in my college days:

- Freshman year: ------- Drinking with lots of good friends and fun parties too.
- Sophmore year:  ------ Playing guitar, smoking, girls, girls, and more girls.
- Junior year:  ----------- Practicing music, lots of music, also meeting my first true love, hanging out with my roommates, and partying with the neighbors
-Senior year: ------------ Partying with the biggest alkies I've ever met, dating my current gf, spending the summer hanging with a local band, and even getting to travel abroad.
- Super Senior yr:  ----- Living by myself, playing IC, and adopting a cat who plays fetch. 

Notice how lame my last year was? (apart from my awesome cat) See how there was no mention of real life friends or my life goals? I can thank IC for that... Don't end up like me, I only came back with the intention to mess around and play inactively, and (apart from the last couple weeks of ICPG,) we see how well that worked
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So, now is the part where I tell you what I'm dong with myself after IC:

I'm saving up money until next June when I'll be moving to California with my gf (who I'll be asking to marry me once I can afford a ring), and enrolling in a modern music school called the Musician's Institute located in LA. Where I'll hopefully learn the skills it takes to make it as a professional touring musician.  Then I plan to form my own band and move to Austin, TX after I graduate from MI.  Keep an eye out for me, my rl name is Kevin Staniforth, feel free to add me on Facebook if you can track me down, just make sure you tell me who you are in IC, or else I'll just assume you're some creepy gay stranger (Primo) and I'll ignore you. Who knows I might just be famous one day (I f---ing better be, since I've started practicing 5 hours a day, and plan to increase that to 9 or so per day along with working full time after I'm done with IC.

I'll definitely come back and post some of my music for you guys to listen to over the next few months/years. (Assuming the forums outlast the game, lol)
At any rate, it's been a pleasure, and now that you've read this long post, feel free to check my other thread to see if I ever even liked you or not.
I will exit by wishing you all the best of luck and by reiterating my cries to quit IC forever.

Good bye everyone, and best of luck. - sincerely, EmoHotPocket (aka Killingworth, aka Kevin, aka 1000 various IC aliases.)

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P.S.:   Jooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooor!

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