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<blockquote data-quote="Maggan" data-source="post: 5196692" data-attributes="member: 6616"><p>I readily admit that it is a search for validation, like so many other things I do in life. It's difficult to forgo the notion that I really would like people to like what I do in life, be it blog, or hold a lecture, or design a web site, or write a comic script.</p><p></p><p>And if people wouldn't like what I'm doing and I wouldn't receive that validation, I most certainly wouldn't continue doing it. Much like posting on EN World is to me. I like when people comment on my posts, I like when I get XP, I like it if people say "that's a good point". It is on some level all about validation of me and the things I have to share.</p><p></p><p>And that's the point: sharing.</p><p></p><p>This hobby has been about sharing since the beginning. Sharing new rules, adventures, advice, interpretations, inspirations and so on.</p><p></p><p>Some of that has been in the form of magazines like Dungeon, Dragon, White Dwarf, Challenge and Arcane. Some through fanzines like Alarums&Excursions, some through hosting games at conventions, some through organising and participating in gaming groups at school, writing letters and so on so forth.</p><p></p><p>Blogs are just another way of sharing information that is useful to other gamers, the same kind of information that we have been sharing since the beginning of our hobby.</p><p></p><p>And I think that urge to share is a stronger motivation than pure validation, at least in my experience.</p><p></p><p>And the fact that there is so many cool things being created outside of the beaten track that the publishers follow, is one of the main reasons this hobby is so captivating to me. And the power of the internet to enable this sharing, through various means of self-publishing (or vanity press if you like) is in my eyes one of the best developments our hobby has adapted the last 10 years.</p><p></p><p>Cheers!</p><p></p><p>/M</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Maggan, post: 5196692, member: 6616"] I readily admit that it is a search for validation, like so many other things I do in life. It's difficult to forgo the notion that I really would like people to like what I do in life, be it blog, or hold a lecture, or design a web site, or write a comic script. And if people wouldn't like what I'm doing and I wouldn't receive that validation, I most certainly wouldn't continue doing it. Much like posting on EN World is to me. I like when people comment on my posts, I like when I get XP, I like it if people say "that's a good point". It is on some level all about validation of me and the things I have to share. And that's the point: sharing. This hobby has been about sharing since the beginning. Sharing new rules, adventures, advice, interpretations, inspirations and so on. Some of that has been in the form of magazines like Dungeon, Dragon, White Dwarf, Challenge and Arcane. Some through fanzines like Alarums&Excursions, some through hosting games at conventions, some through organising and participating in gaming groups at school, writing letters and so on so forth. Blogs are just another way of sharing information that is useful to other gamers, the same kind of information that we have been sharing since the beginning of our hobby. And I think that urge to share is a stronger motivation than pure validation, at least in my experience. And the fact that there is so many cool things being created outside of the beaten track that the publishers follow, is one of the main reasons this hobby is so captivating to me. And the power of the internet to enable this sharing, through various means of self-publishing (or vanity press if you like) is in my eyes one of the best developments our hobby has adapted the last 10 years. Cheers! /M [/QUOTE]
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