Posted by Quinthen on January 12, 2000 at 08:46:59:
In Reply to: My problem with the "discussions" (*really* long, sorry) posted by Amergin on January 11, 2000 at 20:48:57:
True, and I find that annoying and rather sad. > 2. Nearly every viewpoint seems to reflect a total lack of perspective. Here you make a giant assumption, assuming that many posters have little perspective. I for one always post under the name of the character I am playing at the time. Maybe I won't in the future, for it seems to taint anything I say, and it always degenerates into an Imperial Flame of some sort. But posting under Quinthen does not mean this is just the opinion of one character, it is the opinion of the player. One who has been in every cabal except shadow and dawn. I feel I have rather good perspective, all things considered. Most likely many others do to, it's just not realized when they post under their character names. Perhaps I should start posting under "someone", or some ridiculous name. This is certainly not meant to insult you Amergin, as your comments are most often welcome. Perhaps you, like me, focus too closely on the rotten apples, disregarding the rest of the barrel. There's plenty of perspective out there, it just that too often the idiots speak so loudly they drown out the muted whisper of intelligence. *tip*
> 1. They always seem to degenerate into flame fests over who is tougher and who killed whom more.
> ie. People are posting about how so-and-so is overpowered without having played a so-and-so in *months* or, worse yet, without **ever** having played a so-and-so.