M Fnord Wrote:I am obsessed with the Spacebattles.com Battletech Roundrobin, and I don't know why. It's horrible! They don't produce anything except an unending stream of grognard-y arguments about minor Battletech details and masturbatory fantasies about Jack Ryan and whatever they read on the New Scientist website the other day. I actively hate it and most of the people who participate in it.
And yet... I can't stop looking at it. Every damn day I check the BTRR to see if any new story's been posted, or just to check on the arguments. I'm a sick, sick man and I need help.
Oh lord, I extend that to pretty much all Spacebattle/Stardestroyer board fiction. You will never find a more wretched hive of wangst and nerdery. Even the good works have threads constantly bogged down by the most nitpicky anti-fun hoodlums I have ever seen. If you described a fence, shortly after a post on how you are WRONG and DUMB because that color paint is the wrong shade of white for post 1945 rural Australia.
If anywhere needed the Fiery Sword of Mod, it was there.
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Jon
"And that must have caused my dad's brain to break in half, replaced by a purely mechanical engine of revenge!"