Key-Glyph wrote:Lots of stuff
Hey, so this was a great post and I'd just like to clarify some stuff about why I made this thread in the first place.
I have to admit I'm confused by this thread. Why would the Summer Games Challenge have to prove itself in either number of participants or its participants' strict adherence to rules in order to exist?
So that's not at all what I was going for, and my second point in the original thread was mostly a joke. What's important to me, amongst all of the various 'playing games and talking about it' threads on the site, is that people are engaging and talking and enjoying themselves and the discussion. That's true of the Summer Challenge, it's true of the games beaten thread (which was also seen as some kind of pissing contest when it started!) it's true of Together Retro (and despite what you've seen and commented on in your post, it IS what Together Retro is about - there should not be any real pressure to hit a specific target of participation and it's definitely not about making playing games into work).
What I was worried about was that a lot of people choosing themes for Together Retro have put a lot of thought and effort into doing so, and I didn't want to make the people who will be choosing in the summer months feel like people weren't engaging because they were otherwise distracted. The best bit about playing these games in either Together Retro or the Summer Challenge is discussing them on the forum and egging each other along (nicely, no contests here!) and I wanted to make sure that we weren't going to be splitting the forum between the two threads if they ran concurrently and creating some sort of artificial rift between who is engaging with what.
My point is that I wasn't worried about legitimacy of the games or any of that other shit. I was trying to be sure that we had the people willing to engage and keep what makes it so special. And I was trying to check to make sure that in doing so we would still have people engaging with Together Retro and keeping what makes that special too.
It's job-ifying one of the only communal gaming spaces I have left in which I can figuratively crack open a soda and bag of chips with upbeat friends and leisurely enjoy the games of my youth unjudged. Please don't take that away from us.
I just wanted to make sure that everyone would be around to figuratively crack open a soda and play soem games with me. Please don't read into my post the wrong way, I am 100% about makign sure games are fun and not work. And hey, I have no authority to take it away from everyone because I don't run the event or anything. I was just excited to start the thread and wanted to make sure the interest was still there before I did.
It can't be canceled, because it doesn't need to be approved! So I'm going to be having a great time this summer, and I hope you'll all join me. I'll bring extra figurative chips. No parents, no rules!
Excellent, sounds good. I'll bring the figurative soda.
