On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 06:08:58 -0800, "Kelly St. Clair" <xxxxxx@efn.org>
wrote:

>So this is what the TML has come to:  dueling Aspies.
>Or perhaps it was always thus.

More or less, yes, when the going gets hot and heavy. But I suspect that
it's really because somehow or other the hobby (roleplaying in general,
not Traveller specifically) has a tendency to attract Aspies and others
who have similar socioneurological quirks.

Considered objectively, are the Great TML Aspie-fests really any
worse/hotter-and-heavier/etc. than the general public's Trump v. Sanders
v. Clinton v. Obama v. McCain v. (any) Bush v. etc., or baseball fans'
Yankees v. damn-near-anyone, or cricket fans' Is-Muralitharan-A-Chucker,
If you're not into participation in the hot-and-heavy, you've got a few
choices: tune out for a while, start another unrelated thread, or sit
back with some popcorn and spectate. It's all good, and people have done
all three.

(Me? I tend toward the popcorn, but I've been known to fling poo in some
of the battles...)

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