irons wrote:I'm honestly not very impressed with modern games,
Consider a California redwood forest. According to crabgrass standards, it is dead, comatose, or at least not alive by crabgrass standards. The California redwoods do not need to be resurrected, they are happy the way they are. Fortunately, the crabgrass does not expend a lot of energy trying to transform the redwoods into crabgrass.
(What is a polar bear? It is a rectangular bear after a coordinate transformation.)
Those in this community have some characteristics in common which is why they are here. Many, as Irons well puts it, are
not very impressed with modern games and so are here: a little bubble of elegance in a tumultuous world. Others like the modern games but occasionally wish to retreat from that to a more stylish carnage. And then there are those who are here for the 'old masters' style art.
Sometimes, though, along comes a Mary Worth who just can't stand to let things be.
You deadheads, they cry (too young, or course, to have been deadheads themselves),
this place is dying! You need to do this! You need to do that! If you want this place to live again you need to …! And misses the gentle hints that the people here like it the way it is, which is why they're here.
But what about the calls for action from within the community? Those calls are to clean and oil the weapon, not buy a new one.
I just play 'em; I don't know how they work.