Resort to shadows until your body expires...
"All creation has a promise of heaven
and still you travel the road to hell..."
--VNV Nation, "Chrome"
Every once in a while people get all aggressive about some fictional aspect about the Dark Brotherhood... about alliances, about people getting left out of the loop, about how the club is run, et cetera. And then, at the peak of argument, people are chided, told "It's a *fictional* thing, it doesn't matter..."
Well, if that was the case, if we all held the same non-chalance about it, do you think that a star wars gaming/fan club would have lasted as long as it did? I mean, anyone at house leadership or above has spent hours, days, weeks, months, years working on this club. If it didn't matter to them, do you think they'd do it? To build themselves, their resume? It's a rare person who can put a DB position on their RL work application and get a better job because of it.
No, it's because we like the club. Because we like our personae, our characters...and the friends we made while playing.
Yeah, so we're geeks. So what? It's a geek club, at the end of the day... a big, happy, dysfunctional geek family. And it means something to each of us...maybe something different to each of us...but that doesn't mean that it doesn't matter. And, one of the signs that someone cares about something is by how much they fight for it.
More on this later, i think.
and still you travel the road to hell..."
--VNV Nation, "Chrome"
Every once in a while people get all aggressive about some fictional aspect about the Dark Brotherhood... about alliances, about people getting left out of the loop, about how the club is run, et cetera. And then, at the peak of argument, people are chided, told "It's a *fictional* thing, it doesn't matter..."
Well, if that was the case, if we all held the same non-chalance about it, do you think that a star wars gaming/fan club would have lasted as long as it did? I mean, anyone at house leadership or above has spent hours, days, weeks, months, years working on this club. If it didn't matter to them, do you think they'd do it? To build themselves, their resume? It's a rare person who can put a DB position on their RL work application and get a better job because of it.
No, it's because we like the club. Because we like our personae, our characters...and the friends we made while playing.
Yeah, so we're geeks. So what? It's a geek club, at the end of the day... a big, happy, dysfunctional geek family. And it means something to each of us...maybe something different to each of us...but that doesn't mean that it doesn't matter. And, one of the signs that someone cares about something is by how much they fight for it.
More on this later, i think.
posted by Muz at 8:47 AM
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