Well, I deleted my account while at work and before any of you replied to my post, and I wouldn't say that I regret doing so.
However, you do have some good points. I saw that my character would remain, Nameneko, but that didn't mean much to me. I would continue to have the username "Watoad," but everything I had put into my character to make it
my character (mainly experience, or stat levels) would be gone. And I kinda wanted to switch to a Japanese username, anyway, once I learned that KoL supports my favorite foreign language (or, more likely, all of Unicode).
Yeah, Lizard Dude, I mostly agree with that. The problem I see is that after the reset, I'd be "enjoying" the same fun, the same wit, and the same experiences that I have gone through once already. Any progress or sense of accomplishment that I'd had would be destroyed.
It would be like putting 70 hours into Ogre Battle 64 (I spent about 90 hours by the end) and then finding that your game somehow got erased. Yes, you would've had fun playing the game, but you'd still be very frustrated and feel as though you'd wasted your time. Now if you would want to beat the game, you'd have to start
all over again. That, I think, offers little more than frustration unless you had for some reason wanted to start over, anyway.
With KoL I'm actually finding some benefit in the reset, though not that of starting over. KoL, like these forums, is yet another channel through which I forfeit time to the Internet that I should reasonably be using for other things in my life. I didn't have the will power to say "no" to KoL, so the reset has helped me out with that. If you all think this is kinda dumb, then I would have to conclude that I'm either the only person here with priority and time-usage issues, or the one with the greatest difficulties in those areas. One plus about me is that I like to have a fun time, but one minus is that I'm a big, fat PHNOWM IFE-er.
End of dissertation (or whatever). And I'm sorry if that's actually what it became.
Having no signature is like living in a box on the highway.