Quote from: ColonelHardissonI'm just not that motivated to do so, I guess. I was more just making a smart-assed observation up above than anything else. Plus, I was offered the option to change my title, but kept it because it's funny, and I try to not take myself very seriously. I don't always succeed is the problem...

Right there with ya.

Quote from: RPGPunditBut remember, according to Nikchick: you visit my Blog even ONCE, and you might become a PROXY: sapped of all will, only able to obey, doomed from then on to serve your new dark lord!

I think you mean "According to Nikchick as selectively translated through the RPGPundit filter..." because I never said any such thing.  Of course, that hasn't ever stopped you in the past of "quoting" me saying all sorts of things that I never said and getting people all frothed up for your own purposes.

In the ONE thread where I spoke of "proxies" on RPG.net, I was using the standard definition of the word; I'll help you out and paste it right here into this thread where you can remind yourself of it if you need to.

Quoteprox·y n. pl. prox·ies
      A person authorized to act for another; an agent or substitute.

No talk of faceless hordes sapped of their will, no fretting over robot-like armies doing your bidding after only one unfortunate glance at your blog.

You are such a drama queen.

Guess that's a no on the pie, then.  :pie:

QuoteYou are such a drama queen.

She, who has nothing better to do, than squabbling with some irrelevant fan is saying that...isn´t that some irony?

BTW, There are a lot of people who SHARE the Pundits view, and are happy, that at last someone with a regular/normal joe taste is speaking up against the S.W.I.N.E., even those in the "industry" (like those small press publishers with a huge sense of entitlement). It´s like newspapers or TV news, you search until you find someone in your line of thinking, whom you listen to more closely. And the Pundits voice was badly needed, if only to round out the spectrum of opinions. Those who attack him for his far-outedness, don´t seem to understand that. Which only reinforces the thesis of the bias in internet-rpg-communities. Thus it is with people of too large a sense of entitlement.

Quote from: ColonelHardissonChrist, and I'm the one who winds up with the "whines a lot" title...

Yout sort of living up to the title now.  

Quote from: KnightcrawlerYout sort of living up to the title now.  

Gosh, nobody else pointed that out...actually, as I said above, I was making a smart-assed observation. Plus, again, as I said above, I don't make demands on or give ultimatums to the Nutkins.

By the way, I'm in a much, much better mood than I seem to be coming off. I'm just horsin' around, here.

Quote from: ColonelHardissonBy the way, I'm in a much, much better mood than I seem to be coming off. I'm just horsin' around, here.

You will note my title now notes I do not have a Manifesto (thanks to the Squirrelly Overlords--nice touch, that), so I must now join those in the category of Those Who Whine. :emot-sigh:

Quote from: Zachary The FirstYou will note my title now notes I do not have a Manifesto (thanks to the Squirrelly Overlords--nice touch, that), so I must now join those in the category of Those Who Whine. :emot-sigh:

The little nutkins are on a roll today.



Yep. They're in the mood for changing things.

Quote from: Zachary The FirstYou will note my title now notes I do not have a Manifesto (thanks to the Squirrelly Overlords--nice touch, that), so I must now join those in the category of Those Who Whine. :emot-sigh:

Oooh, that's actually a cool title.

Quote from: ColonelHardissonOooh, that's actually a cool title.

They feel it important to tell people where I don't stand.

Quote from: SettembriniShe, who has nothing better to do, than squabbling with some irrelevant fan is saying that...isn´t that some irony?

He, who has nothing better to do than to snipe at someone comming in to defend themselves is saying that ... isn't that ... oh never mind. It wasn't funny when you said it and it sure as hell won't be funny this time around.:muttering:

Quote from: SettembriniBTW, There are a lot of people who SHARE the Pundits view, and are happy, that at last someone with a regular/normal joe taste is speaking up against the S.W.I.N.E., even those in the "industry" (like those small press publishers with a huge sense of entitlement).

Define "lot"

More than a dozen.
Germans, that I know personally, but who don´t post there.

More than twenty regular posters.

My  lowest estimate, not having the real data would be:

12 X 20 =

240 regular readers. Every day. Most likely it is way into the thousands.

But even if it was only th 20+12+me whom I know of, 33 still qualifies as a lot. Especially in blogging. My own blog is read by 300+ different people everyday,  and it generates  15 comments on average. There are about the same number regular posters, so for me the ratio is somewhere like
20:1.

I´m not claiming The Pundit is actually statistically influential. I´m just saying there is a statistical significant number of people, who care to read his ramblings. So at the very least, those people are an actual minority, for whom such a niche has it´s eligibility.
Part of our niche "group think" is that most of us think, that we actually represent the regular janes and joes in regards to gaming tastes, and thus the factual majority. Call that ideology, but at the very least it´s a medium for a statistically significant minority, like Wraethu has it´s weird eligibility for some weird folks out there too (At least they cleaned up their act and can be found in regular bookstore, but that is another story). Denouncing his blog´s right to exist is, well very undemocratic.

That was the point, "proxie" is as deragatory as the latter.