Do you remember, it's almost the first of September.
Added 2025-08-30 16:17:39 +0000 UTCComments
Tex, Save voice as needed. My question involves fandoms, as you have spoken about several of them before. I find myself actually avoiding the fandoms for the things I enjoy most, despite wanting to share my love of those things with like-minded people. The reason being that what fandom should be, "I like thing, you like thing, let us share and enjoy liking thing" far too often ends up being "you like thing differently than I do, so you are liking thing wrong", or even "you are a bad person because you have different opinions on thing than I do", and I do not want the things I love poisoned for me by those attitudes and sentiments. I know fandoms are capable of great things, as with how the Star Trek fandom is a good portion of the reason why we ever got anything after the original series. It just saddens me that there is often so much tribalism, gate-keeping, and elitism. Things made with genuine care and love for the art are few and far between, and I do not need anyone telling me that I am somehow enjoying them incorrectly or a bad person simply because I have a different take than they do. I want to preserve the warmth and positivity I have for the few things that I genuinely enjoy. As someone who has been deeply involved in the fandoms of the things you enjoy and even become a known person in Battletech, what are your thoughts on this? You have spoken before about how much the Space Station 13 community changed once the wider internet became aware of it, going back to your analogy of the quiet local diner that makes your favorite cup of coffee becoming unrecognizable and effectively destroyed by popularity. Where do you draw the line between keeping bad actors out and gate-keeping? Is there even a solution, or do we just have to accept that if something is good, eventually enough people will gravitate to it that there will be bad actors and bad faith discourse? Have you ever had something that you just quietly loved on your own, or only with the people around you that you trust, because you want to preserve that happiness? Thank you for all the work you and everyone over there put in to give us such high quality content that we can enjoy and appreciate together.
Loewe
2025-09-06 12:25:52 +0000 UTCHey Tex, voice reminder. Well in the end the player, whose character I killed in my Battletech campaign came through, it was a bad event, but bad things do happen and he made a new character. So we're pushing into 3055 and it's Red Corsair time ...
Nonkel Bob
2025-09-05 22:53:34 +0000 UTC
