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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 4959591" data-attributes="member: 54707">What you think about the points I made is of course entirely up to you. But after reading your post I realized, well I have for a long time actually, that extended arguments over the internet are not a particularly fruitful, and certainly not a profitable use of my time. I have many other things to do, and to tell the truth I only come here for entertainment purposes. To write things I enjoy, and respond to things that interest me. To discuss various ideas in a diversionary, but not necessary, fashion. Now I know that arguments on the internet generate a lot of buzz, and thread hits, and what-not. I understand they are useful in that sense, to generate interest in what people are saying or arguing about. But personally this just doesn't stimulate or concern me much now-a-days.So with that in mind, and with the other more reproductive and profitable demands on my time, I think that this will be the last time I write anything on this site.Had nothing to do with you in particular, of course. It doesn't bother me in the least that people disagree with me, doesn't thrill me very much when they do agree. It's something to talk about either way, but it doesn't concern me in either direction. It's not like an accomplishment or anything. Just a discussion. But you did remind me that overall, much time and effort devoted to things like internet arguments over mechanical matters involving different visions of game design parameters is just not the very best use of my time and energies. It's only a hobby, it's not curing disease, designing a building, developing a new invention, composing music, adopting a kid, writing a history book, or even just visiting the Parthenon on vacation. So I think I'm just gonna skip the internet threads and arguments and whatnot from now on. Concentrate on other things. In the future if I wish to write something about games or game design or something of that kind then I'll just send that kinda material to my agent or one of my publishers and let them find a decent market for it.Occasionally I think I'll still read what some of you are writing, especially in your blogs. Some of you guys come up with some really interesting ideas. But the arguments and debates over what I consider minutiae just really don't interest me much anymore. They don't much help me flesh out my own ideas, and they don't stimulate me much with any new ideas. So I'm having trouble seeing the point of the exercise. I've got cases to work and kids to educate and inventions to finish and writings to complete and SAR exercises to train for, and so forth and so on. And as far as that goes I sometimes feel kinda bad when someone responds to something I write in one of these threads and then I either don't have the time to properly respond, or the desire to argue something I just don't take to be all that important for long stretches of time. So I reckon the best way to avoid those kinds of things is just to avoid those kinds of thingsYes, arguments can also be fun and even relaxing for me but I also have to realistically weigh whether the time and energy I am devoting to them could be better utilized in some other way, especially if the argument is gonna eventually lead nowhere (nothing changes for either party). And I've concluded that internet arguments over games (or most any other subject) don't really go anywhere or lead to anything productive, profitable, or really useful. Because to be perfectly frank, the internet world is just a virtual world, it isn't the real world. It just on occasion overlaps the real world. To be honest I don't really argue on any of the other internet sites I visit much either, I just extract information, present information, or both - but I don't generally bother to argue. Maybe, to be honest in this sense as well, in one respect I was just using this site as an outlet for argument and debate about subjects I rarely get to discuss in other venues. For "fun debates" about entertainment. But if I have to take such internet fun debates deadly seriously, or of they consume too much of my time and energy, if they even require the idea of becoming agitated, upset, or engaging in a shouting match - instead of a discussion - over different formulations of invented monster traits or the philosophy of what it means to be an imaginary monster, then to also be honest, I also have to say that I'm probably not using my time very well.So ladies and gentlemen it was an honor and a lot of fun.And it was enjoyable and it was interesting.But I think it's about time for me to dig my way out of the imaginary rabbit hole. I gotta train to catch.See ya around.</blockquote>

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