catsclaw227
First Post
I am Sorry. It’s not You I am quoting, it’s the Idea in your post.
I owe an apology to BryonD.
I quoted him, when I wasn’t trying to single him out. He said something in a post somewhere that triggered my reaction to a myriad other posts over, like 5 years, by the multitudes (not even in EnWorld posts) and I felt a strong reaction (you do it too, admit it), not irrational (OK, sometimes), but passionate, and I wanted to respond to the Idea he presented in his statement. (We RPG lovers can be passionate arguers.
------------ I love that about us ALL! 
)
But I have an individual bias.
By the way, as an interruption, I also should apologize to a few others: notably Ariosto, The Shaman, Celebrim (his Slaad stuff is the best I have seen), Raven Crowking (maybenot, ‘cause he’s weird, but I read his RCFG and it’s fraking cool, so he gets mega free slack), EnWorld mods, James Walker the AFC North correspondent for the NFL at ESPN.com, my sister’s f-ed up husband, and of course the notorious Frabolapekus the Glove, gnome rogue extraordinaire...
I admit to having had forum arguments with these fine individuals, but I have not been refined enough in the expression of my counter-ideas, and therefore…. I expressed myself as an ars-hat.
I bet if I sat down over coffee with any one of these people, we’d be high-fiving about our gaming commonality and talking old school awesomeness.
And I know if I looked back, all my posts for like 7-8 years, at different points, I made it personal with someone. (In that much time, likely more than once – sorry about that, whoever you are)
Ooopsey-dooodles.
Unfortunately, there are times when my words come off as personal, when I am only trying to express my disagreement with the Idea of a post.
But… But here’s the thing…
MindSnack (one of my fictitious EnWordler nemesiseses) has expressed an Idea, a collective Idea, an Idea expressed in different ways by different people all believing and feeling strongly about said Idea. This same Idea can be seen in other related quotes on forums, in people with like-minded gaming preferences or, even specifically, like-minded editions and rule-sets.
EDIT: Note that MindSnack and I may agree on some things, but If I don't agree with this particular Idea, then it's possible we might go at it.
MindSnack and I have been going at it for about 2 pages now, and I am creaking…
If intelligent enough software existed that could perform word analysis on the top 90% of posters on Enworld, looking at individual posts, individual forum preferences, sentence formations, and divide us into 3.x, 4e, AD&D, OD&D, GURPS, M&M2, True20, Runequest, RIFTS, Palladium Fantasy, WoD, NWod, McWoD. . . Ad Infinitum.
I bet they would be able pretty accurately put us into groups and you see these same groups going back and forth in thread-after-thread-after-thread.
I believe there needs to be a social paradigm shift in the way forum software works. There needs to be two different types of quotes. A person quote, and an idea quote.
[I wonder how many different emotions, every day, on web forums across the world, are felt when "some dude just slammed your thing. Quoted – you QUOTED the ignorant mother... You have that bastard and he’s gonna feel the pain." Cars, music, games, politics, religion, tv, movies, sports….]
Here’s the thing… I am not quoting "you". I am discussing the idea you are expressing. You are my gaming friend and equal, we are peers. We can discuss and agree to disagree.
Can we?
Is the typed word too limiting in its ability to express ideas that it actually de-evolves us into raving fan-freaks when we cannot actually sit down face-to-face and SPEAK to people?
That Cisco telephone that basically is teleconferencing all the time? It should work for forums too. I bet we’d all behave better. Could you imagine a "forum" being a building with rooms of threads where you sit in virtual chairs and discuss topics. Like old Roman Senate Seating on Video.
I bet if we were actually talking to each other, then we’d have more fun discussing these kinds of topics.
This isn't some kind of Manifesto. I'm not smart enough for that.
Don't be... well... you know.
Just Be.
Peace and War can live in harmony.
I owe an apology to BryonD.
I quoted him, when I wasn’t trying to single him out. He said something in a post somewhere that triggered my reaction to a myriad other posts over, like 5 years, by the multitudes (not even in EnWorld posts) and I felt a strong reaction (you do it too, admit it), not irrational (OK, sometimes), but passionate, and I wanted to respond to the Idea he presented in his statement. (We RPG lovers can be passionate arguers.
------------ I love that about us ALL! )But I have an individual bias.
By the way, as an interruption, I also should apologize to a few others: notably Ariosto, The Shaman, Celebrim (his Slaad stuff is the best I have seen), Raven Crowking (maybenot, ‘cause he’s weird, but I read his RCFG and it’s fraking cool, so he gets mega free slack), EnWorld mods, James Walker the AFC North correspondent for the NFL at ESPN.com, my sister’s f-ed up husband, and of course the notorious Frabolapekus the Glove, gnome rogue extraordinaire...
I admit to having had forum arguments with these fine individuals, but I have not been refined enough in the expression of my counter-ideas, and therefore…. I expressed myself as an ars-hat.
I bet if I sat down over coffee with any one of these people, we’d be high-fiving about our gaming commonality and talking old school awesomeness.
And I know if I looked back, all my posts for like 7-8 years, at different points, I made it personal with someone. (In that much time, likely more than once – sorry about that, whoever you are)
Ooopsey-dooodles.
Unfortunately, there are times when my words come off as personal, when I am only trying to express my disagreement with the Idea of a post.
But… But here’s the thing…
MindSnack (one of my fictitious EnWordler nemesiseses) has expressed an Idea, a collective Idea, an Idea expressed in different ways by different people all believing and feeling strongly about said Idea. This same Idea can be seen in other related quotes on forums, in people with like-minded gaming preferences or, even specifically, like-minded editions and rule-sets.
EDIT: Note that MindSnack and I may agree on some things, but If I don't agree with this particular Idea, then it's possible we might go at it.
MindSnack and I have been going at it for about 2 pages now, and I am creaking…
If intelligent enough software existed that could perform word analysis on the top 90% of posters on Enworld, looking at individual posts, individual forum preferences, sentence formations, and divide us into 3.x, 4e, AD&D, OD&D, GURPS, M&M2, True20, Runequest, RIFTS, Palladium Fantasy, WoD, NWod, McWoD. . . Ad Infinitum.
I bet they would be able pretty accurately put us into groups and you see these same groups going back and forth in thread-after-thread-after-thread.
I believe there needs to be a social paradigm shift in the way forum software works. There needs to be two different types of quotes. A person quote, and an idea quote.
[I wonder how many different emotions, every day, on web forums across the world, are felt when "some dude just slammed your thing. Quoted – you QUOTED the ignorant mother... You have that bastard and he’s gonna feel the pain." Cars, music, games, politics, religion, tv, movies, sports….]
Here’s the thing… I am not quoting "you". I am discussing the idea you are expressing. You are my gaming friend and equal, we are peers. We can discuss and agree to disagree.
Can we?
Is the typed word too limiting in its ability to express ideas that it actually de-evolves us into raving fan-freaks when we cannot actually sit down face-to-face and SPEAK to people?
That Cisco telephone that basically is teleconferencing all the time? It should work for forums too. I bet we’d all behave better. Could you imagine a "forum" being a building with rooms of threads where you sit in virtual chairs and discuss topics. Like old Roman Senate Seating on Video.
I bet if we were actually talking to each other, then we’d have more fun discussing these kinds of topics.
This isn't some kind of Manifesto. I'm not smart enough for that.
Don't be... well... you know.
Just Be.
Peace and War can live in harmony.
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