ANST - Why am I playng this game?
Owen
owenstott at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 8 14:00:51 PDT 1999
look at this "intalectual"
--- Joel Schumacher <jschumac at jcpenney.com> wrote:
>
> Trish McCurdy wrote:
> > A Lady once waved to me when I was Queen the first
> time, and she was
> > about 40 feet from me. I had lost one contact
> earlier at the event,
> > and was doing the event by seeing eye
> Lady-in-Waiting. (laugh, it is
> > funny, except for this part) I did not see the
> Lady, and she was
> > devistated. She thought that I had ignored her,
> and when I was told
> > of this and went to find her, she was crying,
> saying I looked right
> > at her, and ignored her, and looked displeased.
>
> This disturbs me more than a group of peers letting
> their tempers
> flair. I agree that the public nature of this
> argument might make
> the SCA look bad.
>
> We do not know what prompted the confrontation. I
> believe that every
> one of us can lose their temper, given the right
> buttons are pushed,
> peer or not. Maybe the arguement was over something
> foolish, like
> pride or ego. Maybe it was prompted by something
> that, were the facts
> known, many of us could sympathize with. Perhaps
> not agree, but at
> least sympathize with why it happened.
>
> Should we be allowed to express our opinions, even
> in a heated manner?
> I believe so. I don't think it makes anyone any
> less of a peer for
> expressing their opinion passionately. But there
> are places and times
> where you would not want to do this. As is often
> done on this list,
> take it private. If I weren't in the SCA, seeing
> hot-tempered, blade-
> carrying people would scare me right away from them.
> 'Don't want that
> lunatic to get mad at me someday and maybe pull that
> knife'.
>
> On the other hand, we have somebody who was crying
> because the queen
> didn't wave to her? That's what disturbs me. Maybe
> there's more
> involved between the two people than stated. Maybe
> queen has nothing
> to do with it. But I'm seeing it as this person
> crying because "the
> queen" didn't wave to her.
>
> Why is it that a possible slight from pretend
> royalty should upset
> someone enough to run off and cry?
>
> It's just a game and people who cry about something
> so simple disturbs
> me. One of the reasons I'm playing this game is I
> thought it was
> rational people who knew it was all a game. (As
> opposed to some of
> the people I saw make the game world their reality,
> when I was in
> high-school).
>
> -Karl von Augsburg
>
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