Message Boards!

Okay, tonight got me thinking about message boards, and about how much I both loathe and love them.

One the one hand, I loathe them because there are a lot of stupid people out there, and I seem to react badly with stupid people. (Which reminds me, I need to do an entry about how much I hate stupid people). Digression, again. Okay, I hate them because when I see a stupid post, or a post with incorrect information, I want to post immediately with a response, but I don't want to be called a flamer, so I tone down my message, and eventually decide not to post, since my message has been lost anyway.

Take Dragon's Landing for instance (it's in the link below). There, I posted a question a few weeks ago, about if the guys doing the podcast did any RPGA stuff like Living Greyhawk. They take the question, and then go, on their podcast, about how the RPGA is all about competition and stuff like that. It was, at one time, but it's changed, and they didn't do any research when they answered, which made me mad, because now people are getting a bad impression of the RPGA from their podcast!

Okay, I think that's out of my system now.

Now, on to the love part. I love message boards. Why? Because, they allow me to meet (metaphorically of course) lots of new and interesting people. I get to see lots of new opinions, and for a guy like myself, who has generally easily changed opinions, it's good, because I get to see things from new perspectives.

Plus, I get to be a fanboy. I like being a fanboy. Macs, Gaming, D&D, Living Greyhawk, d20 Modern, d20 Past (apparently a lot of people who bought it wished they hadn't, or at least, it's a vocal minority), and lots of other shit. Free Speech, Guns (another topic for later), and other stuff.

Wait, that's two et ceteras in one paragraph.

Eh?

Well, that's all for now. Let's hope somebody'll actually read this!