Cam ups, Cam downs, and sundry

[davywavy]

Sometimes it astonishes/disappoints me the amount of petulance and spite that the Cam generates, given that it is just a hobby.
We'll start todays observations with andydavies and grimjim 's little tirades about Andy Richardson, the departing ANST. Where did that little bit of public spite come from?
Sadly, I don't really think I can criticise either of them for it - Andy has a fairly unbroken run of being a good bloke and on the nail, and one lapse isn't enough to really castigate him over, so I just look askance and move on. And as for Grim, he doesn't have sentient awareness or free will in the way you or I would understand it. He's more of a bile-producing automaton (a bit like a spiteful Gort the Robot), and so he just produces such nonsense without consciousness. Criticising him for being spiteful is like criticising a badly made clock for showing the wrong time; it's not something you can do anything about, the clock isn't even aware that it is doing it, and overall you're best off ignoring it and looking elsewhere to find out what time it is.

On other matters, I found out yesterday the actual details of why my old mate Sean Prather isn't a Cammie any more, and I was left open-mouthed with shock at the circumstances. I've not been given permission to pass on the details by him, but suffice to say that I thank God the checks & balances I put into out constitution will hopefully prevent crap like this happeneing in the Cam UK.

On a plus note, I refer you to here:
http://www.cam-anarch.org/main.php?page=law&doc=primertwo
Possibly the best bit of a rules supplement I've read since the first edition of GUT landed on my desk back in '98. A Cam roleplaying supplement that actually encourages people to roleplay? Whatever next?!
If anyone knows the person who wrote this, please pass on my congratulations - it's without a doubt the best thing to have come out to the rules groups in a month of Sundays.

Elsewhere, I was off to the gym last night and found I still haven't recovered from the physical exertion of the weekend. A decade ago I could run a mile in under 5 minutes - last night, I couldn't run a mile at all. Weights weren't much better, and all in all, I felt a soft girly weed and gave up in exhaustion after a while. Returning to the changing room, my male pride in tatters, I wasn't helped by the first thing I saw as I walked in being a superbly muscled bloke with a cock that wouldn't have looked out of place in a John Holmes movie walking out of the showers. I withered up inside, and went home feeling completely crap, all masculine bravado gone...

Comments

reasons

[raggedyman.livejournal.com]

i normally dont give these but for they I thought I might as well. not expecting you to agree with or understand but ya kinda asked so here's a kind of response as best as i can do atm.

I didn't think much of andyr as anst and i think him resigning is a good thing on many levels. You know this, you know why i think this and we have talked on it lots. And we both disagree on this one lots, (which is cool and fine: i honstly think life would be very dull if we all agreed, I dont actually think my opinions and beliefs are true and correct in the philosophical absolute contect and I really appreciate being able to disagree with a friend) and we are unlikly to agree on it but i think we can see each others opinions on it (at the very least i can see and understand yours).

So i put it in my lj as it was a thought in my head, thats what I do with my lj: post up stuff out my mind, for myself [and yes I know lj is a public forum etc but you can take it within the context of the lj concept]. Personally it was one of those red letter days and red letter thoughts so i shoved it up, though its made slightly bitter in retrospect as I'm now not sure if I can be assed to return to the shores of the cam 'vamp' after all this time of absance (an absence, imo, much extended by the actions and anst stylings of andyr). Its not exactly a secret that I have strong opinions on andyr as anst (as a person i don't really know, i just dislike the man as hat) so I dont see what all the shock is about me being happy that he's gone.

hope that explains some of it. most likly wont make you go 'andy done good after all' but then its not like i make my posts in some sort of attempt at a popularity contest or shotgun character assassination fetish.

Re: reasons

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I'm not taking issue with your opinions; it was the tone.

I know you don't like his style - but it's the difference between "I don't like his style, I'm glad he's going, and here's why...", and "I'm glad the useless fat git is gone."
I regard Andy R as a mate, and so I'll defend him when people are rude about him - especially in areas which he isn't aware of/won't see. In the same way, I regard you as a mate, and I'd defend you if someone was rude about you somewhere where you weren't there to defend yourself.

Re: reasons

[raggedyman.livejournal.com]

fair enough and quite possibly true. however (in a very possible over exageration but i kinda like the metemphor) you can either explain VE day with a 2000 page book on WW2 or with a pic of two random people snogging: I went with the pic option