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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8428314" data-attributes="member: 6988941">I didn't know about that part of his biography!His political career has made me more certain that some or all of these guys are plugged into the American conservative media echo chamber, as has the the fact that these guys seem to use every publicity opportunity to talk greavance against a scary, undefined mob that wants to bring them down, much in the vein of Fox News' primetime editorial content and the like. I'm now more certain of my hypothesis from the trainwreck last Summer that, probably more unconsciously than purposefully, they are trying to build their whole RPG company on the American news media model of picking one political tribe to be their audience and catering to what they want to hear.And... it actually might kind of work in theory if they ever manage to produce some actual products the people their muted bigotries and loud tirades appeal to could actually buy and if they pursued the course with more savvy. To really cash in they would have to have more discipline in recognizing that if you don't like them its because you aren't their target audience, and every demand you make of them to appologize or whatever is just giving them another opportunity to not do so and sell to their target demo of people who don't want them to apologize.But I don't think they have the discipline to succeed on such a model. That would require accepting that some people don't like them and actually reveling in that fact, exploiting it to gain attention and win over others, and that doesn't really come natural to most people. Instead I think they ape American conservative media grievance culture without really understanding how to turn that into profit and with the hopeless dream that their critics will eventually let up on them.I'm sorry to everyone to for whatever degree I've injected politics into the discussion. My interest in the matter is less political than anthropological.</blockquote>

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