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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6849689" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>Okay, well, then I think your OP then doesn't represent your position. Specifically: </p><p></p><p><em>"...I think the nature of the "not at the actual game table" stuff has changed. </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>These days, people write blogs, sell PDFs, put things on DMsG, talk about their games on the Internet. They're still spending time doing the "not at the game table" stuff - it's just that that stuff has evolved a bit with technology." </em></p><p></p><p>If you didn't want to stake a position, you probably shouldn't have said you think a particular thing is happening <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /></p><p></p><p>Moreover, you posit that people are doing things online, and then ask a small number of people who are doing things online what they do? Holy self-selected sample, Batman! To get evidence one way or another, we must look *beyond* the community, no within it. Don't ask what the posters here do - ask what *their gaming groups* do, if nothing else.</p><p></p><p>For example, out of the dozen or more folks I've done tabletop gaming with multiple times in the past year, I know that I am the only one who spends significant time online about RPGs, in general.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>No, you didn't. But, having it mentioned, I took a quick look, and found that it really doesn't look like a lot of individuals are involved, and I felt that did speak to the point.</p><p></p><p>As for the hot games sample - I don't think you can claim there's not a lot of overlap between the users represented there. We have somewhat short of 200,000 registered users, and a lot of those are spam accounts. How many *really active* users do we have? How many of those people *also* have a blog, and also go to other forums? You may be looking at a small, but very active, group of people, not a general gamer behavior. I believe the term is "vocal minority".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 6849689, member: 177"] Okay, well, then I think your OP then doesn't represent your position. Specifically: [i]"...I think the nature of the "not at the actual game table" stuff has changed. These days, people write blogs, sell PDFs, put things on DMsG, talk about their games on the Internet. They're still spending time doing the "not at the game table" stuff - it's just that that stuff has evolved a bit with technology." [/i] If you didn't want to stake a position, you probably shouldn't have said you think a particular thing is happening :p Moreover, you posit that people are doing things online, and then ask a small number of people who are doing things online what they do? Holy self-selected sample, Batman! To get evidence one way or another, we must look *beyond* the community, no within it. Don't ask what the posters here do - ask what *their gaming groups* do, if nothing else. For example, out of the dozen or more folks I've done tabletop gaming with multiple times in the past year, I know that I am the only one who spends significant time online about RPGs, in general. No, you didn't. But, having it mentioned, I took a quick look, and found that it really doesn't look like a lot of individuals are involved, and I felt that did speak to the point. As for the hot games sample - I don't think you can claim there's not a lot of overlap between the users represented there. We have somewhat short of 200,000 registered users, and a lot of those are spam accounts. How many *really active* users do we have? How many of those people *also* have a blog, and also go to other forums? You may be looking at a small, but very active, group of people, not a general gamer behavior. I believe the term is "vocal minority". [/QUOTE]
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