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Cam ups, Cam downs, and sundry
Jul. 3rd, 2002 09:16 amSometimes 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...
