We all live in a fanbois world.

I’ve spent the past week or so doing a little blog digging — primarily to investigate the repressive reactions of the socially guilded and guilty to those who, like good ole Twixt, do not kowtow.  It seems increasingly clear that MMO designers, apparently in order to avoid the repressive hostility of those socially guilded and guilty who keep the cash cha-chinging, choose, unlike good ole Twixt, to kowtow quite explicitly.  For instance, here’s a comment taken from here by mmo insider Erik Bethke:

The number one reason people leave games are basically f*ckwads… Erik Bethke points out that if players were given the right social structure and tools, then they might be able to clean up the f*ckwads themselves.

One of the better examples of how we-the-unified-mmo-community-who-knows-exactly-who-we-are deal with f*ckwads (with Prokofy Neva playing the f*ckwad role) is here.

Now, I said that to say this:  While I was bouncing around the blogs, I noticed that, similar to how mmo designers all design the SAME DAMN GAME, they all pretty much write the SAME DAMN BLOG too.  In the course of my week or so of bouncing around, here are the whole stories and nothing but the stories that I found:

1,  Bartle is an old fart (after saying the same stuff he’s said o so many times before in a new Massively interview);

2.  Ben Fritz is an idiot (after Fritz the Variety videogame guy wrote an admittedly idiotic review of Colonization); and

3.  Diablo 3 hype is released by Blizzard.

Talk about recursive contextualization.  Kettle, call thyself black.