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You thought Virus was bad?
I am this close to unsubscribing from the Traveller Mailing List and sending my Traveller books to starving gamers in China.
Let's be clear: I have an encyclopedic knowledge of Traveller; especially about the Third Imperium setting. There is a mass of information written by dozens of writers at numerous companies over the past three decades. Some of it is contradictory, some has been overwritten by later products. We refer to this mass as canon. There are some things that have defined Traveller from the beginning: interstellar jumps take 168 hours +/-10%, The longest possible controlled jump is 6 parsecs. Those have been in every rule set (all six of them.) Also important is that the speed of information is the speed of travel.
Playing with the setting is a long-established tradition. We even have an acronym for it: IMTU "In My Traveller Universe." If your version of the setting differs from the official one, using this tag warns people that things are different. But changing the basic assumptions of the game will bring comment.
In response, folks like me have been called "strutting peacocks" and compared to screaming chimps.
Screw them.
Let's be clear: I have an encyclopedic knowledge of Traveller; especially about the Third Imperium setting. There is a mass of information written by dozens of writers at numerous companies over the past three decades. Some of it is contradictory, some has been overwritten by later products. We refer to this mass as canon. There are some things that have defined Traveller from the beginning: interstellar jumps take 168 hours +/-10%, The longest possible controlled jump is 6 parsecs. Those have been in every rule set (all six of them.) Also important is that the speed of information is the speed of travel.
Playing with the setting is a long-established tradition. We even have an acronym for it: IMTU "In My Traveller Universe." If your version of the setting differs from the official one, using this tag warns people that things are different. But changing the basic assumptions of the game will bring comment.
In response, folks like me have been called "strutting peacocks" and compared to screaming chimps.
Screw them.
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It's the usual petulance from people who don't know and don't want to learn.
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The old guard dies out through various means. The only way to keep the guard numbers at a level where they can perform their function is by training members in good standing to become the newbies of the old guard. Neophytes, who will someday bear the standard when the veterans must pass it into other hands.
On the other hand, there's a reason Roman soldiers were allowed to retire from the Legions to till the land in peace with their families.
Yannow, I've been thinking...
The only readily-available, easily-digestible-by-humans source of protein must have been... Vilanis! Soylent Green is Vilanis!
*ducks, runs, hides*
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What caused me to leave a decade ago was one member going way over the line and no one else telling him to either stick to Traveller or bugger off.
I was dealing with a heartrending situation at school -- something I desperately needed to leave at work -- and the last thing I needed to read was some inadequate loser fantasizing about underage girls. My sanity wouldn't handle dealing with shit like that in my off time was well as at school, and as TMLers were encouraging him to stay I decided to leave. I haven't regretted it. Traveller is a fun hobby, but when Cat Piss Man (http://www.savantmag.com/16/retail16.html) joins a social group I feel no obligation to put up with him. :-/
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Of course unsubscribing is just a formality anyway. I can just let the messages pile up on gmail.
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Then some folks pointed out items in official background stuff that contradicted his. view.
He (or others on his side, I was only paying casual attention) then proceeded to claim that those were minor, or not really canon, and so on.
At some point "you're an idiot if you think that" type comments started flowing.
Alas, I contributed to part of it by challenging someone on some very off the wall comments. (I try not to respond to this person because he doesn't debate, he just makes statements that contain worlds semi-related to what you said and then says that's what you said and argues against *that*)
I've quit responding to him after wasting entirely too many hours trying to reason with him.
I *really* need a better killfile equivalent for my mailer...
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In fact, I don't do mailing lists at all any more. Does wonders for my sanity - and my ability to enjoy hobbies.
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Meet Spaceman Splat.
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I don't get the weird personal emails from the Homeland Freedom and Morals Cabal faction any more, but delete 95% of the posts unread and find 75% of the ones I do read not very interesting after all, and still think it's worth staying subscribed.
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For fun I will try to start a thread on a subject I am interested in.
Just noticed its the 25th Anniversary of the FFW by the way.
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I will defend Traveller to its dying day, no matter what variation people play, toss canon out the airlock, its still Traveller
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Leave it and share your knowledge somewhere else, like on this journal. There's no point in staying in a place where you are being insulted.
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Also please try to remember that arguing on the internet is like being in the Special Olympics. Even if you win you’re still retarded.
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I have to admit I tended to side with the Canon defenders for what I did read. I'm a TML Old Fart myself. Folks like Doug and Leonard have built up a vast amount of credibility with me on the subject matter over the years.