Re: It's about time!

From: mlwilliams <mwilliams@signal.dera.gov.uk>

Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Rich Skrenta wrote:
>
> Patrick F. McGehearty <patrick@rsn.hp.COM> writes:
> > Actually, what has happened is that many regulars have seen all the common
> > discussion threads and quit posting to this group.  Many games have
> > developed their own internal mailing lists and web-sites which attract their
> > regulars.
>
> Agreed.  All of the Olympia players hang out on one of the oly
> lists, and the BSE mailing lists gets a ton of traffic.
>
> This group has become the alt.flame of the PBM community.  Unless
> you're prepared to spend a week trading insults with someone, there
> is little reason to post here.  Even promising threads like the
> one on long-term playability in open-ended games quickly go off-track
> and degenerate into insults.

I'll third that - All the Saturnalia discussion goes on in the thriving
Sat-multi. The problem with ng discussions is the one that plagues PBM
magazines, namely that the games tend to be fairly small scale so any
specific discussion would bore most of the audience silly. This leaves
us with several hoary old chestnuts concerning PBM in general and
frankly they've been done to death with most people here so firmly
entrenched in their views that the discussion quickly slides into
flame-war.

Personally I dervive as much enjoyment from seeing the main-stays of
this ng live up to their reputations as I do from the topics themselves.
I wonder how many of them do it as an exercise in role-playing to keep
their hand in and how many are really like they seem? :)

Mark
--
Saturnalia
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Station/5676/sat.html

I'm sorry, I can't argue unless you've paid.

References

Re: It's about time!
Patrick F. McGehearty <patrick@rsn.hp.COM>
Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: It's about time!
skrenta@pbm.com (Rich Skrenta)
Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Re: It's about time!
Patrick F. McGehearty <patrick@rsn.hp.COM>
Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: It's about time!
skrenta@pbm.com (Rich Skrenta)
Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:00:00 +0000