Cam ups, Cam downs, and sundry
Jul. 3rd, 2002 09:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davywavySometimes it astonishes/disappoints me the amount of petulance and spite that the Cam generates, given that it is just a hobby.
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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...
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...
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Re: !
Date: 2002-07-05 01:35 am (UTC)Of course, if you don't think people should defend their friends when people slag them behind their backs, that's your business.
I assume "Colin" is a comedy character; I don't own a TV, and so I'm left behind on such things, but I asume the comparison isn't positive and wouldn't be appreciated.
I'm jolly glad you're being nice about me; as I said to Andy D, I've no problem with people presenting "I don't like and here is why" reasoned arguments. However, I dislike people slagging off my friends without apparent reason, and as such I consider it my moral responsibility to defend them when they are not there to defend themselves.
Re: !
Date: 2002-07-05 01:34 pm (UTC)For your education...
'Colin' is a stereotypical 'Office clown'. Coloured suits, bright cartoon ties, a comedy orange wig and a line in unfunny jokes. Never seems to do any work and spends all his time distracting and offputting other people.
Amiable, but eminently punchable.
Re: !
Date: 2002-07-08 02:48 am (UTC)Many players don't like that style, anbd I can see why. it's challenging, and PC on PC conflict is *much* more likely to result in PC death and PC on NPC conflict.
I'm not a character killer - I'm about to make my first ever serious attempt to kill a PC and that is just because they're wanting to kill me and I reckon they have a better than average chance of succeeding. However, I also realise that the game as is cannot really procede within it's background structure without that. That's why I like what he's done, even though I personally wouldn't do it the same way.