This forum may not be a battle ground but this thread has seen a skirmish.
We have Optimists and Pessimists both looking at the same glass and having a free and open discussion that is not the skirmish.
There are two other factions The Cynics and The Sycophants.
Both of these groups have a militant sub group. Now I class myself as a passive cynic. In that respect I doubt RAWA will produce the goods but I am prepared to be surprised. There are some passive sycophants they don't like things said against Cyan but are prepared to accept that there others who are ambivalent. They usually avoid sites where they think they might be upset.
There are however the active sycophants who would like nothing better than a world without anybody but Cyan. Unfortunately for this forum occasionally we get visits from the active sycophants. Its also unfortunate that instead of treating these posts as delusional some of the cynics regard these as open attacks.
Now much as I find the posts of sycophants vomit inducing I find that poking the stick at them just does not work. They appear to be best left to their delusions even if their rantings appear trollish.
Sometimes I feel I would like to remove them and their postings but I have to temper my feelings and use my cynical head that says these people will only cry foul and make new accounts and come back and make more trouble.
I find my best method is to read their posts and regard them as feeble minded morons who have failed to realise that Uru is a work of fiction, That the guys at Cyan are only human RAWA and Rand included and that the occasional pointy stick in Cyan's direction might just stimulate a bit of action.
Cyan have produced a fine body of work and they do have intellectual property rights when it comes to the Myst Universe there's no doubting that.
With any work of fiction there is room to jump off in new directions with greater or lesser links to the original work. These offshoots mean no disrespect to the original work if you think it does show even a modicum of disrespect then you better look away because it's going to happen.
This is a space used by creative people using the Myst universe as a springboard and to that end we need to discuss Myst, Uru, D'ni et all as fiction, we need to discuss ages as manipulated environments, and Cyan as a source of cannon information.
This means we must treat RAWA with respect if we don't he is just not going to play. So think of the pointy stick as an attention getter not a lance.
I wish RAWA the best of luck!
