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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark CMG" data-source="post: 5760085" data-attributes="member: 10479">The second YouTuber, Tetsubo, has been an EN Worlder since the start, IIRC, and has had a profile on this "new" site since it began -<a href="http://www.enworld.org/member.php?u=1250" target="_blank">EN World: Your Daily RPG Magazine - View Profile: Tetsubo</a>Looks like he hasn't logged in here since April 2009 but a lot of folks dropped off during the height of the 4Ed-Wars, so that's not surprising.  I enjoy his videos for the most part and am one of his subscribers."was" has an interesting stance though I wonder why that opinion wouldn't extend to all usage of the Internet, and not be limited to YouTube video bloggers.  If someone asks a question on a messageboard, and isn't asking anyone directly, is anyone who answers not "self-indulgent" and of the "belief that people value their viewpoints or regard them as experts on the subject matter?"  I don't always agree with anyone on the planet, no one yet anyway, but I do like to read/hear differing opinions and it's why I come to EN World and read/watch blog/vlogs.  However, the opinions I manage to best identify with the person who expresses them come from the people who are less guarded about who they actually are, and I tend to give them a bit more weight unless they come from someone outrageous.  Often the ones I tend to read/view less charitably are the ones from the anonymous (or mostly anonymous) person who holds negative opinions from behind the secret safety of their computer.  Someone like Tetsubo has a few thousand posts here over the seven years he was active and now puts out a regular (very regular) series of vlogs rather than looking for threads to post in or to start.  The only real difference being that I feel I know who he is a lot better than I did prior to his vlogging.  I don't always agree with Tetsubo but I never get the impression he is frothing at the mouth or ranting absurdly, because I can clearly see that he is not.  I wish I could more clearly know a lot of the posters I read here on EN World.  Most of the ones I've met are really good people and I'm glad to know them.</blockquote>

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