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New Friday Freewrite article up from me. Standard caveat applies: all the Friday Freewrites are editorials (read: Opinion pieces). I make my best efforts to be fair and tempered in them:

QCG -- Dr. Fanboy: How I learned to stop the hate & love more than one system

As always, C&C welcome and appreciated.

Please enjoy!

I generally agree with the main thrust of your article; Can't we all get along?

To be honest, though, I haven't seen a lot of evidence of this schism "on the ground," as it were. About the worst I've encountered are a few players saying they don't play GW games anymore because they are too broken, but hey, to each his own. In general though, most gamers I've met are, like you and me, engaged in several different games and enjoying them all.

I think your observations may be a few years out of date. There doesn't seem to be more than a handful of fanatics left on either side.

I think your observations are in really small type and hard to read.

lord_blackfang wrote:I think your observations may be a few years out of date. There doesn't seem to be more than a handful of fanatics left on either side.

I think this has a lot of regionality to it. In my area, we have a lot of "only GW" or "only Privateer" dudes. Bear in mind the schism is also a great deal more present on some other fansites (particularly BoLS) as well. As with any editorial, YMMV simply because of personal experience. I just like painting and building minis, so I'm not married to any one system.

The freewrite articles usually start as a stream of consciousness, and then I work them up into coherent articles; most of the time they begin as a paragraph I wrote in my journal, and are then expanded upon at a later date, or simple notes that I've jotted down and done the same with.

@biccat -- Duly noted. I've never actually messed with the font size on any of them, and think they're actually about the same as here. Perhaps it is the black on the white? I'd love more feedback on that so we can adjust accordingly!

Thanks again!

Dooley

http://www.ifanboy.com/images/ifanboy/geekchartbig.gif

cincydooley wrote:@biccat -- Duly noted. I've never actually messed with the font size on any of them, and think they're actually about the same as here. Perhaps it is the black on the white? I'd love more feedback on that so we can adjust accordingly!

It looks like around size 9 on my screen, whereas Dakka is about size 12.

Could be something on my end, although I'm not sure how.

malfred wrote:http://www.ifanboy.com/images/ifanboy/geekchartbig.gif

Haha! Thanks for posting that link; I've been looking for a larger version of that chart for a while

Regional differences could very well be a factor, although my experiences do include Seattle, San Diego, and Virginia, so who knows? Maybe I'm just not good at noticing such things

Text size seems fine, BTW. It matches Dakka to my eye.