2011-01-12, 05:44 AM
Todd just has this mean streak you can see coming from a mile away that manifests itself in vindictive postings. I think you and I are both good natured. You need at least two such folk to keep any forum from going into full on mob mode as soon as soon as someone doesn't much like someone or something. It's just part of the culture here in the states anyway. If you don't like something you try to inflict pain upon it. No one knows why afaik, it's a tribal instinct or something. I don't think most people realize when they are being mean. But if someone is aiming to inflict pain consciously or otherwise a defensive posture is a natural one (as far as I'm concerned meanness is never acceptable behavior)
My opinions are not strong or even opinions in this case. I just expressed my hopes and desires. Certainly nothing incompatible with anything anyone has mentioned in this thread.
My only point I think was that it's important or at least possible to be semi aware of the repercussions our own actions intentional or otherwise. Like even the game industry's endless pursuit of bigger and <your favorite adjective here> games has a negative affect upon peoples conception of what is required to produce a game (let's just stick to games) ... I think a more enlightened / self directing culture could be a lot more sensitive to the needs of one another versus blind one-upmanship... especially if what we're trying to do is pool our individual resources in a non-adversarial way.
PS: Sword of Moonlight has not even started as a phenomenon yet. I think we'll have to move away from this forum at some point. But anyway, it's not a question of people "still" using this forum. We are not yet even in the incubation stage. We're kinda like just talking about conception at this point
My opinions are not strong or even opinions in this case. I just expressed my hopes and desires. Certainly nothing incompatible with anything anyone has mentioned in this thread.
My only point I think was that it's important or at least possible to be semi aware of the repercussions our own actions intentional or otherwise. Like even the game industry's endless pursuit of bigger and <your favorite adjective here> games has a negative affect upon peoples conception of what is required to produce a game (let's just stick to games) ... I think a more enlightened / self directing culture could be a lot more sensitive to the needs of one another versus blind one-upmanship... especially if what we're trying to do is pool our individual resources in a non-adversarial way.
PS: Sword of Moonlight has not even started as a phenomenon yet. I think we'll have to move away from this forum at some point. But anyway, it's not a question of people "still" using this forum. We are not yet even in the incubation stage. We're kinda like just talking about conception at this point