I don't think P-C was advocating dropping the idea of a gaming thread and just talking in Bitches all the time. I think he was saying "Hey, MM, ND...take your particular conversation that you are having right this second and move it OUT of Lightbulbs for the nonce. I suggest Bitches at this particular moment in time."

I may be wrong.

That is indeed what I was saying.

But I also think it would not be a bad idea, now that the ball is rolling, to attempt to start gaming conversation where and when it suits your fancy and see what happens. As an experiment.

I intend to talk about gaming wherever, yes. I will do this because there is no gaming thread. I do not expect my conversing about gaming despite the lack of a gaming thread to deter me from wanting one.

I don't think P-C was advocating dropping the idea of a gaming thread and just talking in Bitches all the time

That's not in response to me, is it? I should probably have put a paragraph break after that first sentence. Two thoughts, and the second one not commenting on PC at all.

That's not in response to me, is it? I should probably have put a paragraph break after that first sentence. Two thoughts, and the second one not commenting on PC at all.

Yes, it was. But now I can see where the breakdown in communication occurred.

Let's see...since you've stated your position before, and I've stated mine before...wanna call a do-over, ita?

I think if we compare the interest base (in terms of Buffistas and in terms of products to discuss) for graphic media to the base for games, we'd see close to parity.

I'm just caught up, and while it's no skin off my nose if we start a gaming thread, if the expected participants are likely already to be reading and participating in Other Media, what's the harm in seeing if OM will sustain the conversation?

See, wouldn't you rather this stuff lived in a thread where it wouldn't bother nice, innocent folks?

I thought this was kind of nice and mellow and enjoyed it thoroughly. In fact, although I'm not as proliferationist as some, I'm pro most proposed threads, and this made me kinda want to vote against the gaming thread just so I could see more. Then, I realized that I'm so behind on everything that the only place I would actually see it would probably be in a gaming thread, and I changed my mind again. I can be so fickle.

I'm just caught up, and while it's no skin off my nose if we start a gaming thread, if the expected participants are likely already to be reading and participating in Other Media, what's the harm in seeing if OM will sustain the conversation?

For myself, I don't post there now, but I have no objection to going in there for games. I would not have expected to find it there, though, because (as previously noted) games are not a communications medium, and when I think of games, the Joss-related games aren't prominent in my mind, so I wouldn't go looking for it in Alt-Joss. So I'd be good with it, but I feel it would need to be reflected in the subtitle or whatever.

Beyond myself, ND has said that he would have to avoid it due to the spoiler issues. That turns me against OM as an option too, because games don't generate a bunch of spoilers themselves, and therefore it seems perverse to have people turned away because they're concerned about getting spoiled for other things. If Sang Sacre is now basically about varieties of computer gaming, then I'd be good with trying there.

Also note, in my aforementioned opinion, that I'm mindful that ND already misses out on a bunch of threads because on this board cross-pollination tends to trump big spoiler fear in thread purposing, and fair enough, it's the way the votes go, but I wouldn't mind seeing this one go the other way. And, of course, at the moment the gaming thread people are a (reasonably voluble) minority, and so losing even a couple or a few from the confab due to non-topic-related issues bothers me more.

As a Buffista who likes all sorts of games, I'd be hip to the thread. I understand the desire to not have sprawl. It is nice in Bitches to learn about new stuff, and I'm sure folks wouldn't mind hearing about new games in there.

However. Based on todays little experiment in Bitches, talk of RPG in a busy thread... kinda fragmented and hard to maintain a conversation. IJS.

It seems this post might not really help either side of the issue, as it finds merit with both sides. Ya, I'm a libra. So sue me.

OK, I think there's an interesting thing going on in the Music thread, with the current bandom talk. I don't know if the people posting are the "usual" posters in there, but it's definitely not the usual kind of conversation, and I'm sure it won't last forever, but is hot-n-heavy right now. Isn't this basically what people are suggesting around games talk in the Other Media thread? How do people feel about that?

It felt like the music thread was WayRolled (or WentzRolled) but I rather liked it.