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99% of blog posts are way too long.

And nearly every podcast needs its banter cut back by at least 50%. (The only exception is Between Two Cairns, where listening to Brad wind up Yochai is a big part of the appeal.)

Direct human interaction is overrated. I prefer my cave, with WiFi.

I factually limit the amount of other voices I need to hear after I'm done work. I dont want to hear songs, radio, youtube, podcasts, anything.

My wife and thats it.

Maybe the heats the problem but man I am oooooooooooooooooover it.
 

Some days I don’t know how to feel about our little corner of nerdom. This is obviously at least four separate and distinct hobbies in a trenchcoat pretending to be one hobby. We are not the same. We don’t want the same things. Our preferences are mutually exclusive. It’s not about better vs worse or real vs fake. We are, on a fundamental level, simply not doing the same things at the table. Can we stop pretending we are?
 

Some days I don’t know how to feel about our little corner of nerdom. This is obviously at least four separate and distinct hobbies in a trenchcoat pretending to be one hobby. We are not the same. We don’t want the same things. Our preferences are mutually exclusive. It’s not about better vs worse or real vs fake. We are, on a fundamental level, simply not doing the same things at the table. Can we stop pretending we are?
You should try the 1km1kt forums if you want to feel truly alone.

Edit: wait are these still around?

Edit: They are! well, kind of. The last post is prepandemic.
 


Some days I don’t know how to feel about our little corner of nerdom. This is obviously at least four separate and distinct hobbies in a trenchcoat pretending to be one hobby. We are not the same. We don’t want the same things. Our preferences are mutually exclusive. It’s not about better vs worse or real vs fake. We are, on a fundamental level, simply not doing the same things at the table. Can we stop pretending we are?

Its kind of interesting in a 'this is the last game/nerd thing I think about at least partially at an intellectual level' kind of way.

I dont know if its because of the explosion of RPGs in 'normal' space.
I dont know if its because of the explosion of RPG games and the increase in their adoption post OGL fiasco.
I dont know if its just general hobby growth and drift.

I cannot think of many other hobbies I've participated in which have such wildly different expectations. I guess RPGs at this point need to be understood as the same level of pointless label as 'videogames'.

A hardcore arena shooter player, is absolutely NOT the same thing as my sister, who plays some roblox game with her 7 year old daughter farming plants or something like that. They just are not. Just as she is not the same as me, the guy who was raiding in WoW for years, or who wrote code for mods.

We definitely need to stop pretending that all RPG players are the same, because there are some pretty fundamental differences, even if some things are shared.
 

Some days I don’t know how to feel about our little corner of nerdom. This is obviously at least four separate and distinct hobbies in a trenchcoat pretending to be one hobby. We are not the same. We don’t want the same things. Our preferences are mutually exclusive. It’s not about better vs worse or real vs fake. We are, on a fundamental level, simply not doing the same things at the table. Can we stop pretending we are?

No. Because some of us are doing some of the same things as others who don't share some of the others. There's no way to separate people off in any coherent fashion, so the best you can do is feel out the common ground, and talk about that, and if you don't find any acknowledge that fact too. Trying to act like everyone has no common ground is even more useless than assuming that they all do.
 

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