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<blockquote data-quote="JohnRTroy" data-source="post: 5378271" data-attributes="member: 2732">To be fair though, at one point you did call yourself a historian in your &quot;about me&quot; box/section (though you've changed that), or sometime the term &quot;explores the history&quot;, etc.&nbsp; The only reason I mentioned that comment is because I think a lot of people combine some of what you do with your very formal style and use of analytical neologisms like &quot;Golden Age of Gaming&quot;, &quot;Gygaxian naturalism&quot;, etc., and see you in that light.&nbsp; I was just reminding people that at the end of the day, Grognardia is more or less the equivalent of an opinion column.&nbsp; (I'd actually like to see some real historical analysis of the gaming hobby, similar to the great 40 years of Gen Con book that Robin Laws wrote which to me evokes the work of Studs Turkel.)Doesn't mean I don't enjoy the site.&nbsp; I just think people should occasionally be reminded of that, as in this day and age people blur opinion with fact or news.&nbsp; And I was mostly responding to the guy who said &quot;those guys&quot;, which shows that there's a perception that you have staff and are like a newspaper.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JohnRTroy, post: 5378271, member: 2732"] To be fair though, at one point you [B]did[/B] call yourself a historian in your "about me" box/section (though you've changed that), or sometime the term "explores the history", etc. The only reason I mentioned that comment is because I think a lot of people combine some of what you do with your very formal style and use of analytical neologisms like "Golden Age of Gaming", "Gygaxian naturalism", etc., and see you in that light. I was just reminding people that at the end of the day, Grognardia is more or less the equivalent of an opinion column. (I'd actually like to see some real historical analysis of the gaming hobby, similar to the great 40 years of Gen Con book that Robin Laws wrote which to me evokes the work of Studs Turkel.) Doesn't mean I don't enjoy the site. I just think people should occasionally be reminded of that, as in this day and age people blur opinion with fact or news. And I was mostly responding to the guy who said "those guys", which shows that there's a perception that you have staff and are like a newspaper. [/QUOTE]

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