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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 25143" data-attributes="member: 158">Re: Keep Your Eyes PeeledInsert Homer Simpson-like drooling sounds here...(THREAD-JACKING!)EDIT - In regards to Horacio's comment, I know that the Internet has done more to put designers in touch with their target audience than any other communications medium in history. The very fact that Industry pro's like Gygax, Cook, Mona, Collins, Grubb, Kuntz, et. al. can and DO connect with their audience in such a manner is absolutely mind-boggling to me. They reach gamers that way, some companies have picked up new talent that way, and for Joe or Jane Gamer, it puts a human face on former godlike figures.On the down-side, it makes it all too easy to throw disparaging personal remarks their way, and drown out signal with a lot of insulting noise. It also means that they get e-mail 2 days after the product is released, slamming them because of mistakes in the product, and wanting errata post-haste.Fan-gushing aside, the fact that I would one day correspond with Gary Gygax on gaming info would have blown my juvenile mind 20 years ago. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />(THREAD-JACKING OVER)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 25143, member: 158"] [b]Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled[/b] [i]Insert Homer Simpson-like drooling sounds here...[/i] (THREAD-JACKING!) EDIT - In regards to Horacio's comment, I know that the Internet has done more to put designers in touch with their target audience than any other communications medium in history. The very fact that Industry pro's like Gygax, Cook, Mona, Collins, Grubb, Kuntz, et. al. can and DO connect with their audience in such a manner is absolutely mind-boggling to me. They reach gamers that way, some companies have picked up new talent that way, and for Joe or Jane Gamer, it puts a human face on former godlike figures. On the down-side, it makes it all too easy to throw disparaging personal remarks their way, and drown out signal with a lot of insulting noise. It also means that they get e-mail 2 days after the product is released, slamming them because of mistakes in the product, and wanting errata post-haste. Fan-gushing aside, the fact that I would one day correspond with Gary Gygax on gaming info would have blown my juvenile mind 20 years ago. :D (THREAD-JACKING OVER) [/QUOTE]

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