Michael Chui (not verified) on June 6, 2006 - 22:16.
I'm only responding to the top of your comment. I'm interested in what you write (which is why I read the feed at all), and I can definitely sympathize with your inability to convince people that what you write matters and express it in ways they understand such that you have good communication.
You can kind of sympathize, in this way, with myself, and with Raph and probably any number of leading figures in some particular thought: ideas are hard to communicate. People simply don't seem to get it.
And my sole advice to you, before I get back to the term paper I was working on, is don't give up. People aren't going to grok your ideas easily. You'll have to try again and again; you'll have to speak to people one-on-one and address them /personally/, rather than on a one-to-many forum like this; and you'll have to be inventive about expressing them every time you do so.
As to what you write, I admit it's a bit beyond me, because I don't have the same experience you do (since I don't play any of the games you do), but your ideas provide a lot of fodder for my ponderings on design. I can't think the way you do about the same things, but they are sometimes inspirational. =P
Re: World travelers: "gated content"
I'm only responding to the top of your comment. I'm interested in what you write (which is why I read the feed at all), and I can definitely sympathize with your inability to convince people that what you write matters and express it in ways they understand such that you have good communication.
You can kind of sympathize, in this way, with myself, and with Raph and probably any number of leading figures in some particular thought: ideas are hard to communicate. People simply don't seem to get it.
And my sole advice to you, before I get back to the term paper I was working on, is don't give up. People aren't going to grok your ideas easily. You'll have to try again and again; you'll have to speak to people one-on-one and address them /personally/, rather than on a one-to-many forum like this; and you'll have to be inventive about expressing them every time you do so.
As to what you write, I admit it's a bit beyond me, because I don't have the same experience you do (since I don't play any of the games you do), but your ideas provide a lot of fodder for my ponderings on design. I can't think the way you do about the same things, but they are sometimes inspirational. =P