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Having the First of the Last Words

rising and revolving

23:37 / 20.06.05

Um. So, it takes two people to have an argument. I'm at least one of those people, in several arguments, and I honestly don't want to be anymore. It's not what I'm here for, or what I like about the 'lith. There comes a point where you need to acknowledge that you're not part of the solution, nor even part of the innocent observational UN contingent, but part of the problem.

Which really means the only logical step remaining is to become very, very, good at being a problem or to stop it.

So I'm stopping. From here on, I'm not pressing post in anger - nor righteousness, nor clever-clever. I don't promise an absence of fluff or ill-considered opinions. That would be silly. However, from here on in, I'm playing the ball, not the man.

Or something.

Welcome to my summer of lurrrrve!

I'm Rick Jones, bitch

23:42 / 20.06.05

23:50 / 20.06.05

So I'm stopping. From here on, I'm not pressing post in anger - nor righteousness, nor clever-clever.

If that's what you're not going to do, what will you be doing?

rising and revolving

00:02 / 21.06.05

If that's what you're not going to do, what will you be doing?

Probably fluff and ill-considered opinions for a while. I didn't rule those out - do I look like a fool?

Seriously, there's plenty of meat to get into in the new games forum - and I honestly feel it's got a good chance of being one of the only places online where you can talk games without it being wall to wall teenagers talking crap. I'd like to help that along where possible - while I'm not generally so good at taking the academic position (although I'm at least passing familiar w. the general Ludic field) I can give an interesting industry perspective. Also that of someone who loves ganes, which is why I'm in the industry ultimately.

That and I'll keep doing what I've been doing in Temple - which is mostly keeping my mouth shut and trying to only speak from experience. Which, as it grows, gives me more to talk about.

In general, I just want to create the Barbelith I adore by being a better 'lither, rather than by fighting with people I think are being bad Barbenauts.

paranoidwriter waves hello

00:06 / 21.06.05

Sylph, I like the sentiment and I think I should take a leaf out of your book. e.g. my well meant, but pathetic contributions in the "The Generally Snobbish Pretentious Asshole Mentality"-thread. However, if I followed your example to the letter, I'd probably only end up only saying words like "Indeed, No, Yes, Sorry, I promise", etc; and, well, to be perfectly honest, these words are far too prevalent in my "communications" as it is. Also, lately I feel I keep having to qualify things to make sure nobody gets annoyed, which I realise is almost impossible anyway. Not that I'm trying to "fool" anyone (see? there I go again) but maybe it's similar to "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time...", etc?

No offence meant, of course.

Tryphena Absent

00:20 / 21.06.05

I'm not pressing post in anger - nor righteousness, nor clever-clever

I understand not pressing post in anger and clever-clever. Both of those things lead us all into trouble and are generally unnecessary. I often write in anger and then slowly go through the post deleting the emotion out of it, sometimes because I'm trying to moderate in both senses of the word, mostly because I know that the bits that are right in my most won't be received if they're written in anger. Righteousness however I won't give up because some things provoke a moral reaction in me and to temper that morality would be to ignore the things that I believe absolutely.