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		<title>By: Lume</title>
		<link>http://www.lumethemad.com/2008/08/18/a-public-response/comment-page-1/#comment-335</link>
		<dc:creator>Lume</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>He has a few okay points. But some of them are driven by prejudice and an isolated view created merely from his own personal experiences. He places us in one category defined purely by his own opinions. To him, all graphical MMO players only play for a &quot;false sense of achievement.&quot; He doesn&#039;t respect the people who say they play merely because they enjoy it, nor accept the reasons why. He can&#039;t respect that the sense of achievement some people obtain doesn&#039;t supersede their other achievements in life, nor their simple enjoyment of the game. To him, it is only his views that determine what we get out of the game. And it is a psychological issue he doesn&#039;t understand.

Some of his points may be valid, but they are points that most of us MMO bloggers have already covered. So we don&#039;t need a condescending bigot telling us about some of the problems with our games when we already recognize them. And we don&#039;t need someone telling us we shouldn&#039;t play those games if they have those problems. Especially when we&#039;ve repeatedly said the positive points of the games are why we play them. No game is ever perfect, afterall, and most of us have played many other games to know what we prefer and what we don&#039;t.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He has a few okay points. But some of them are driven by prejudice and an isolated view created merely from his own personal experiences. He places us in one category defined purely by his own opinions. To him, all graphical MMO players only play for a &#8220;false sense of achievement.&#8221; He doesn&#8217;t respect the people who say they play merely because they enjoy it, nor accept the reasons why. He can&#8217;t respect that the sense of achievement some people obtain doesn&#8217;t supersede their other achievements in life, nor their simple enjoyment of the game. To him, it is only his views that determine what we get out of the game. And it is a psychological issue he doesn&#8217;t understand.</p>
<p>Some of his points may be valid, but they are points that most of us MMO bloggers have already covered. So we don&#8217;t need a condescending bigot telling us about some of the problems with our games when we already recognize them. And we don&#8217;t need someone telling us we shouldn&#8217;t play those games if they have those problems. Especially when we&#8217;ve repeatedly said the positive points of the games are why we play them. No game is ever perfect, afterall, and most of us have played many other games to know what we prefer and what we don&#8217;t.</p>
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		<title>By: Luke</title>
		<link>http://www.lumethemad.com/2008/08/18/a-public-response/comment-page-1/#comment-333</link>
		<dc:creator>Luke</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Muckbuck has a fantastic point though.</description>
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		<title>By: Joel&#8217;s Scattered Thoughts &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Why So Many Alts?</title>
		<link>http://www.lumethemad.com/2008/08/18/a-public-response/comment-page-1/#comment-285</link>
		<dc:creator>Joel&#8217;s Scattered Thoughts &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Why So Many Alts?</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] to level my alts as quickly as possible.&#160; It&#8217;s not the journey so much as the feeling of accomplishment from hitting the next level.&#160; I love it when I pick up a new ability at the trainer and I try [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] to level my alts as quickly as possible.&#160; It&#8217;s not the journey so much as the feeling of accomplishment from hitting the next level.&#160; I love it when I pick up a new ability at the trainer and I try [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Kirkie</title>
		<link>http://www.lumethemad.com/2008/08/18/a-public-response/comment-page-1/#comment-259</link>
		<dc:creator>Kirkie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That guy is a total asshat.  The best revenge is living well - I&#039;m looking forward to hearing more about your accomplishments in WotLK.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That guy is a total asshat.  The best revenge is living well &#8211; I&#8217;m looking forward to hearing more about your accomplishments in WotLK.</p>
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		<title>By: Sydera</title>
		<link>http://www.lumethemad.com/2008/08/18/a-public-response/comment-page-1/#comment-255</link>
		<dc:creator>Sydera</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ugh, this guy Cambios sounds like a real downer. Let me just say, Lume, that I&#039;m living proof that a person can raid 14 hours a week, finish their dissertation, and find a new job, all at the same time, and all without damaging the personal life. There&#039;s a little thing called time management, and it lets human beings do whatever we value most in the time that we&#039;ve got. But as others have said, you can&#039;t argue with people like Cambios. We all know that WoW fits pretty well into a healthy lifestyle--just like any other hobby or leisure activity would!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ugh, this guy Cambios sounds like a real downer. Let me just say, Lume, that I&#8217;m living proof that a person can raid 14 hours a week, finish their dissertation, and find a new job, all at the same time, and all without damaging the personal life. There&#8217;s a little thing called time management, and it lets human beings do whatever we value most in the time that we&#8217;ve got. But as others have said, you can&#8217;t argue with people like Cambios. We all know that WoW fits pretty well into a healthy lifestyle&#8211;just like any other hobby or leisure activity would!</p>
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		<title>By: Avonar</title>
		<link>http://www.lumethemad.com/2008/08/18/a-public-response/comment-page-1/#comment-254</link>
		<dc:creator>Avonar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Very eloquently argued - great seeing this turned around so that it shows that we really are doing something instead of just staring at a bunch of pixels. There&#039;s far more to the game than killing a boss, the boss just serves as a goal and a way of making things more tangible.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Very eloquently argued &#8211; great seeing this turned around so that it shows that we really are doing something instead of just staring at a bunch of pixels. There&#8217;s far more to the game than killing a boss, the boss just serves as a goal and a way of making things more tangible.</p>
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		<title>By: One Way to Piss Off a Blogger (Don&#8217;t Do It) : World of Matticus</title>
		<link>http://www.lumethemad.com/2008/08/18/a-public-response/comment-page-1/#comment-253</link>
		<dc:creator>One Way to Piss Off a Blogger (Don&#8217;t Do It) : World of Matticus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] a word of advice for new bloggers. If you&#8217;re trying to break into the community, it&#8217;s generally a smart idea not to piss off bloggers on a grand scale. I&#8217;ve been told off the record that a significant number of bloggers have flagged the [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Lume</title>
		<link>http://www.lumethemad.com/2008/08/18/a-public-response/comment-page-1/#comment-247</link>
		<dc:creator>Lume</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>For clarification, the primary reason I chose to respond to Cambios publicly was because the comments seemed to directly respond to entries of mine that were actually relevant to the comments he made. However, after reading Tuna&#039;s blog, I realize he just copy-pasted those, as well. That equates to, well, spam.

And after arguing with him, I think he&#039;s nothing more than someone with an agenda who will do everything he can to further it. Even if it means taking things out of context and telling people how they think. For this reason, I regret bothering to give him a chance. And I certainly regret it went beyond my own blog.

I still think it was worth the time to tell him to go away, however, and make a case for personal experiences and preferences. But he won&#039;t see the light of day on my blog from here out. He doesn&#039;t deserve the attention, and I wasn&#039;t intending to give him more than he received. Sorry!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For clarification, the primary reason I chose to respond to Cambios publicly was because the comments seemed to directly respond to entries of mine that were actually relevant to the comments he made. However, after reading Tuna&#8217;s blog, I realize he just copy-pasted those, as well. That equates to, well, spam.</p>
<p>And after arguing with him, I think he&#8217;s nothing more than someone with an agenda who will do everything he can to further it. Even if it means taking things out of context and telling people how they think. For this reason, I regret bothering to give him a chance. And I certainly regret it went beyond my own blog.</p>
<p>I still think it was worth the time to tell him to go away, however, and make a case for personal experiences and preferences. But he won&#8217;t see the light of day on my blog from here out. He doesn&#8217;t deserve the attention, and I wasn&#8217;t intending to give him more than he received. Sorry!</p>
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		<title>By: Twisted Nether Blogcast &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Downtime round-up: 8-19-08</title>
		<link>http://www.lumethemad.com/2008/08/18/a-public-response/comment-page-1/#comment-246</link>
		<dc:creator>Twisted Nether Blogcast &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Downtime round-up: 8-19-08</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Public Response: Stop Telling People How to Game: Lume’s response to a comment by [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Runyarusco</title>
		<link>http://www.lumethemad.com/2008/08/18/a-public-response/comment-page-1/#comment-245</link>
		<dc:creator>Runyarusco</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well put, and generally how I feel. I personally think said-commenter is just trying to generate traffic, but hey.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well put, and generally how I feel. I personally think said-commenter is just trying to generate traffic, but hey.</p>
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