EDIT: Er, I guess the following link once again managed to leave a trackback comment on Paradox's post... My apologies. That wasn't intentional... See, when my blog was hosting on TW's server, trackback didn't work very well and it didn't usually go off that easy. I'm not sure what's different, but ever since I moved it to my personal server, I've been receiving pings and sending trackbacks like you wouldn't believe! I guess that's a good thing as far as traffic goes... People will be more apt to see what I have to say, but, at the same time, it's a little annoying how it makes comments everywhere now. Guess I should remember to uncheck that option per post if ever I think it might do that when I don't want it to. I'm sure I'll manage to gather another record-breaking day of traffic for it... Oh, the humanity!

Once again, certain people have displayed the uncanny ability to misread what I'm trying to point out when I bring up my history of discussing what was wrong with Uru. They tend to think that I'm trying to rub it in their faces by claiming that I was somehow the "original" person to say what was wrong. You know what? You can think that if you want, but I want to make it absolutely clear that I completely understand that I wasn't the first, and I clearly wasn't the last... But you know what else? I fail to see how that matters in the least bit. Taking credit for "complaining" first is like arguing over who was the first person to scream "the boat is sinking, patch the holes!" It doesn't matter!

My point has been and always will be the fact that the community in general decided to string me up (along with others) because I was one of the people who decided to say "hey, I love Cyan, but Uru has some problems that need addressed." It doesn't matter what I specifically said... It doesn't matter what others specifically said. What matters is that the people who turned on me for saying their favorite game wasn't all it was cracked up to be suddenly had a complete change of heart when Uru failed (for the second time for the same reasons) and decided to fill up the community blogs with why THEY thought Uru failed and then others clambered to be the first to comment about how sooo right they were. The same people who clambered to be the first to comment about how so insanely WRONG I was. The posts might rehash what I've already said was wrong... They might have other ideas, too. To be honest, that's never been my point... My point has always been to point out the sad fact that they ripped to shreds the reputation of good people OVER A GAME when they thought it was in their best interest to be part of the group who adored Uru without reserve so they could gain standing with them, and when it turned out that the group they wanted to gain standing with started listing reasons why Uru failed, they spammed the sites with wholehearted agreements so they could STILL be in "good standing" with the in-crowd.

People who read my blog should know by now that I've come to enjoy pointing out where hypocrisy lies... Whether it be in politics, in the computer industry, or even in the little Myst community. As long as people keep displaying this two-facedness, I'll keep bringing it up. I'm not trying to take credit for anything, and I realize completely that Paradox explained different points with different conclusions. That's not what I'm trying to draw attention to. It's all the comments underneath his post from people who at one time made sure I was entirely unwelcome for saying Uru was doomed if certain things weren't changed, and are now singing a completely different tune just because it was Paradox (he's an AGE BUILDER, after all) instead of me (someone without even the hint of a social rank) who said it all. I have no issue with Paradox himself, for the record... Only those who shunned me for saying something they didn't like being heard, and then had a complete change of heart on the SAME IDEAS when someone they wanted to impress said the same things.

Alas, I can probably say this until the end of time and the people who did this will still pretend it's somehow me trying to say "I told you so," or that it's me trying to take credit, or anything but the point I'm trying to make... But I'm used to that. This is how the liberals act in politics, this is how opensource fanatics act in the computer industry, and this is how the Uru-lovers act in the Myst community! If anything, it's a very interesting... Human social experiment? Humans are such odd creatures... This coming from a wolf, of course. Think of it as... Kind of like Data, from Star Trek: The Next Generation! An android trying to figure out what makes one human. Here I am, a wolf, trying to figure out what makes people act like they do! Yeah... It's kind of a stretch, but deal with it!