Re: Awwwww, dammit...

"Sea Wasp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Lord Craxton wrote:
> > "Sea Wasp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >>Lord Craxton wrote:
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> >>>"Sea Wasp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >>>>Lord Craxton wrote:
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> >>>>
> >>>>>The purists are breeding again. >_<
> >>>>
> >>>>   This is a good thing. Without them, we will have more Battle of
> >>>>the Planets dubs. Even with them we end up with problems.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>With them we end up with WORSE problems- arrogant fans, elitist,
> >>
> > cliquish
> >
> >>>fandoms, cultures of hatred around involved companies, fandoms that
> >>
> > drive
> >
> >>>newbies away, leaving themselves with stagnant populations, and good
> >>
> > series'
> >
> >>>that have their reputations ruined by being surrounded by screaming
> >>
> > idiots.
> >
> >>>It ain't worth the misery.
> >>
> >>    I am waiting for you to mention some of these problems. You
> >>haven't mentioned any yet.
> >>
> >
> >
> > You haven't been listening. >_< That, or you just don't understand that
the
> > way people treat other people is intrinsically more important then how
much
> > your anime is edited on it's way across the Pacific.
> >
>
>    That, or I recognize that what happens on Usenet is a bunch of
> sound and fury, signifying nothing, and that people who get worked up
> over it are wasting their own time and valuable energy angsting over
> something that doesn't matter.
>

That's a cop-out and we both know it. If you really believed it, you
wouldn't be bothering with this thread.

> And how are the elitist cliques here any worse than those everywhere
> else? In everything?
>

They exist. That's quite bad enough.

                                                    -Lord Craxton