PolyCast Episode 73: "More Tangenty Than Usual"

[AlphaShard]

In my experience, people on internet forums are smarter on the whole than people in real life. I think they deserve to be treated with the same courtesy and respect you'd give them on the forums, or if they were a live guest on the show.

I think that would have been true in the late 80's early 90's, I'm not so sure anymore. To coin a phrase "everyone's in the pool" now. That's not an excuse for rudeness but I do think the Civ fandom is one of the nicer and smarter ones out there.

I appreciate that micromanagement is nowhere on the panel's One..More..Turn.. slider,
and 5% on mine ( I play a mod with 5% increments, increasingly useful as the game goes on ) , but words like stupid are a poor shorthand for more micromanagement, when we all know that micromangement takes brainpower. A person that likes micromanagement could be boring, but they probably aren't stupid. "Not fun" would be preferable as a term.

I actually like micromanging because I like to rule my people with an iron fist.

IMRAN- I think I smell micromanagement

CARTIMANDUA- Cool! I'll pick cathair off of the couch while you guys do that!

IMRAN- Hey wait! Can I help you out on the couch?

CARTIMANDUA - No! Don't talk. Just don't talk.

MAKI- Eh. I need a refill before we even start...

DAN- Lulabye----- and goodni---ght...

MAKI - WE HAVE A NO SINGING RULE !!!

So you were saying the Hosts should be nice to the theories as they are to each other? You showed both Carti and Maki telling Imran and Dan to shut up respectivly. Poor Dan, not allowed to express himself artistically.

 

[DanQ]

I appreciate the further explanation of your concern, Rusty -- I will add to my response as well.

Yes, the word "stupid" was used during the topic in question, used as part of the comment "... stupid ideas" by one of the co-hosts. In and of itself, I can see how the comment could be taken as a personal attack, and the others even more so; given the context set by the greater discussion by all the panelists, however, I feel they stand as among the most aggressive attacks on the idea itself and not the person who communicated the idea. This was and is the intent, and this was and is my perception.

I do agree that different phrasing of these statements could have been used to convey said intent so as to better avoid such a misunderstanding.

 

[Makahlua]

On a lighter-note:

Oh, hey, I've got a funny suggestion for you: In each episode, when Mak is introducing herself, play one of the (many, apparently) clips of me mispronouncing her name instead!

This idea is Maki-approved! Dan - Make it so!

 

[DanQ]

This idea is Maki-approved!

Maybe as part of a future special.

Dan - Make it so!

Aye, captain.