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Lorraine Williams: Is it Time for a Reevaluation?
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<blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 8436742" data-attributes="member: 6799660"><p>Y'know, that's why I really don't think a biopic would actually be that good of a way to communicate who these people were. Having them take turns being hero and villain reinforces the framing that there are (and perhaps even have to be) heroes and villains. In the end we are talking about different people attempting to run a successful company and make a fortune -- there might be some overall beneficence (and difference between them) towards their respective partners, employees, and maybe even the game itself, but in the end this is the story of a business venture. </p><p></p><p>For my money, what I'd like isn't a nice 90 minute narrative, but more a general understanding close to the OP's question -- did we get the story right the first time around? I really dislike being lied to, especially by myself, and we the nerd community are really good at telling ourselves things which reestablish certain preexisting notions or reinforce parts of our self image. Lorraine Williams could well have been a terrible (beyond being unsuccessful at saving the company), mean-spirited boss; but that is also a really convenient story towards some of those notions and self images. Peterson's book stops pretty much at Gary's ouster (and supports the notion that the ouster, if nothing else, was justified or at least justifiable). I'd love it if the next one (so, seven years out, I suppose...?) to be an exploration of the next phase of TSR. I'd really like it if we could go take a look at the events that have inspired the refrain of <em>"It's well documented that Ms. Williams did, in fact, harbor a strong disdain for the fanbase,"</em> and see if 1) they actually happened, and 2) if they happened in the way in which they are recounted, and 3) if the (one and only) reasonable interpretation is that the instigation of each event was a disdain for the fanbase. Also if we can get any corroboration on the playtesting, the reasoning behind the overbearing IP defensiveness online, what other shareholders had to say regarding Buck Rogers, and the other components of the story of Lorraine the villain. Peterson has thus far been good at not presupposing that the existing narrative is true, nor assuming that what he'd find would completely disrupt what we knew (this latest book shakes up a lot of notions, <em>Playing at the World</em> mostly did not). I'd like to think he'd be a good candidate for an unbiased historian to that question.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Willie the Duck, post: 8436742, member: 6799660"] Y'know, that's why I really don't think a biopic would actually be that good of a way to communicate who these people were. Having them take turns being hero and villain reinforces the framing that there are (and perhaps even have to be) heroes and villains. In the end we are talking about different people attempting to run a successful company and make a fortune -- there might be some overall beneficence (and difference between them) towards their respective partners, employees, and maybe even the game itself, but in the end this is the story of a business venture. For my money, what I'd like isn't a nice 90 minute narrative, but more a general understanding close to the OP's question -- did we get the story right the first time around? I really dislike being lied to, especially by myself, and we the nerd community are really good at telling ourselves things which reestablish certain preexisting notions or reinforce parts of our self image. Lorraine Williams could well have been a terrible (beyond being unsuccessful at saving the company), mean-spirited boss; but that is also a really convenient story towards some of those notions and self images. Peterson's book stops pretty much at Gary's ouster (and supports the notion that the ouster, if nothing else, was justified or at least justifiable). I'd love it if the next one (so, seven years out, I suppose...?) to be an exploration of the next phase of TSR. I'd really like it if we could go take a look at the events that have inspired the refrain of [I]"It's well documented that Ms. Williams did, in fact, harbor a strong disdain for the fanbase,"[/I] and see if 1) they actually happened, and 2) if they happened in the way in which they are recounted, and 3) if the (one and only) reasonable interpretation is that the instigation of each event was a disdain for the fanbase. Also if we can get any corroboration on the playtesting, the reasoning behind the overbearing IP defensiveness online, what other shareholders had to say regarding Buck Rogers, and the other components of the story of Lorraine the villain. Peterson has thus far been good at not presupposing that the existing narrative is true, nor assuming that what he'd find would completely disrupt what we knew (this latest book shakes up a lot of notions, [I]Playing at the World[/I] mostly did not). I'd like to think he'd be a good candidate for an unbiased historian to that question. [/QUOTE]
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