Sun, Aug. 23rd, 2009, 11:50 pm
War Games and Death Toys [the pbsBlog.com saga revival]

This version of the page is still up. Pre-emptively pasted for posterity. (See clairvoyantwank.)
 
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                       Welcome Warhammer Folks-


I see some of you thought you had run me off and were feeling all triumphant and mighty about it.

According to some of your death gamers' forum posts some of you actually think your attacks and sheer will-power intimidated me and ran me off and that you'd never hear from me again.   You're very proud of yourselves at the thought of being excellent obnoxious bullies who triumphantly squished some lady (yes a lady since so many of you weren't able to figure that out). You're actually smug on the concept that being bullies makes you cool and you were able to shut me down.

Y'all are funny. 

Btw-

A) People who are proud of being bullies are "assholes".    If you are an asshole then don't bother reading on.  What follows is not for you.  Rude people will not get whatever they're seeking here.  If you're incapable of communicating like an adult then take off now and trust me when I tell you,  you won't be getting anything from me.


B) There's nothing about you folks that intimidates me.  You're guys and gals. There's lots of guys and gals in the world, nothing new there. 


Now then, if you're still reading this and are NOT an asshole, this page will now become interactive. 

I'll finally have some time coming up shortly to get this page finalized but I want something from you. What I get from you will determine 100% of what I decide to ultimately put up here.  I'll be out front with you, I am tiring of dealing with children and little bully boys.  That's over.  If those are the only kind of replies I get to this then what's going back up here is exactly what was up here before.

So if it honestly matters to you what's going to be said here, then I need to hear from you.
This is your opportunity to put your two cents in.   

Answer one or all of these questions and email your answers to the address at the bottom of this page.

Q:  1: What do you want to see here?

         In other words, what would have to be here, or not be here, in order to make you feel okay with it?

Q: 2.  If you experienced anger or any other unpleasant reaction to the deathtoys page please explain why you had that reaction. 

Q: 3.  What three things did you specifically not like about the previous page?  Do not just say "it sucked".  That is not information. That is your opinion which is irrelevant for the purposes of this interaction.  Quote exactly what it was that bothered you so much.  BE SPECIFIC or you won't accomplish anything. Quote it exactly and explain what your issue is.  Otherwise I won't know because I'm not the amazing Creskin. 

     If there was something on that page that you believe was factually incorrect AND you can provide the corrected data then
     send it along and I will look it over. But YOU go get the information, I will not do your homework for you .

     
ONE MORE THING:  If I get even ONE nasty email from anyone at the new dedicated address set up specifically to hear from YOU,  this whole thing will be OFF instantly AND the old page goes right back up AS IS.   That will end all further communication forever.  Also  I will publish any such email so your gaming community will know who to thank and you can tell them why you're such a twit and don't think anyone else matters except yourself.

Before you start typing:  Think about what you're going to say.   Have a point to make and make it.  Be brief, specific and to the point.  Do a spell check, it won't kill ya.  If your complaint is strictly with my opinion, in other words if you can't handle my completely different perspective from the one you have, then you have nothing to say.  That has already been covered in minute detail and hopefully you've noticed it accomplished precisely zip.   That's because (refer to "A" above), being an asshole is counterproductive and it makes you impossible to warm up to.   If it's just my perspective or my opinion that bothers you then realize it's not up to you what I think or what anyone thinks.  If you don't like it, too bad,  deal with it.

If you're still with me, I'll be impressed.  If there is NO factual error from the previous page to correct, and if you do not feel the need to sabotage this entire exercise for everyone in your community, and if you feel you still have a thoughtful, pertinent, adult point you want to make that I have not already addressed with my exhaustive blog post and countless emails and rather irritated messages at this website, (which  is close to impossible as I've covered everything I have to say in those communications), and IF and only IF you can communicate in a calm and rational manner, then you can go ahead and write it down and email it.   If you can do that then I would be interested in hearing your thoughts.  Send your email to warhammer@pbsblog.com.   You may or may not get a response, I will try to respond where it seems a response is desired but cannot promise anything.  One last thing, I buried the email addy down here at the bottom in order to force reading of this whole thing in order to weed out  anyone who can't be bothered to hear anything I'm saying and only want to send me nastygrams and who will totally ignore the questions and will refuse to even attempt to be civil.  The email address listed beneath this paragraph is bogus and is only there to divert folks who only want to try to do damage.  Is that totally silly?  Yes it is.  But you only live once so what the heck.  Having said that I look forward to hearing your input and am counting on you to be fair in your own mind in what you have to say or in what you feel compelled  to ask.  If you were not personally involved in this but were an unbiased third party who could step back and see both sides and be fair, and can come to the issue through that process then it will be interesting and productive to hear what you have to say. 



Send emails to:  gamer_input@pbsblog.com

Updated 08/21/09




Update: 08/21/09  
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Sun, Oct. 18th, 2009 05:11 am (UTC)
(Anonymous): Hmm.

I'll tell you what I thought of your "War Games and Death Toys" page.

I personally thought it was libelous and not very well informed. You didn't actually set forth any sort of argument as to why Space Marines encourage children to become violent, nasty killing machines. You just slandered Space Marines. In fact, as a wargamer, I was very offended.

However, I swiftly became less offended when I had finished reading the whole thing. I realized that you had just taken screen-shots from the Games-Workshop website and ridiculed them immensely. You also got your facts wrong on several points, for one, Chaos Space Marines and Space Marines are very different.

You seem to have a lot of anger regarding the desensitizing of children to violence. I will admit that in popular culture, children are bombarded by waves of violence and sexualization. However, Warhammer 40k is not, in fact, a part of popular culture. It is a niche industry, and it markets to ADULT nerd-gamers, not children.

Despite the fact that Space Marines may look like toys (And you obviously consider them to be toys, as represented by your consistently calling them "Space Marine toy sets") they are not, in point of fact, toys. They are miniatures, like, say, a model airplane.

Because they are miniatures, Space Marines are extremely expensive, so expensive that only gamers would ever consider buying them extensively. Most children who get their hands on Space Marines are the children of gamers, who don't care if their kids think "genetically engineered slaughter beasts" are cool or not.

In fact, Space Marines are not supposed to be sold to "SMALL CHILDREN" because they come in boxes with lots of small parts that require assembly. This excludes them from sale to children under 13.

I found your arguments to be offensive and not at all persuasive. The vehemence, and in fact, the violence of your claims was very disturbing. If you dislike Space Marines so much, you ought to send an email to Games Workshop telling them how much you hate them and think they are horrible people who only want to make innocent children into little killing machines. I'm sure they would love to read your web page and see the numerous violations of their copyrighted Intellectual Property which are featured on it.

In conclusion, ma'am, I bid you good day (or night, depending upon your timezone.)

Sincerely,

A horrible violent gamer-person
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