Hi All

I’m playing catchup here and understand I’m pretty late in posting this. (I see @brennon and @unclejimmy have been talking and that appreciated)

I’ve been on nearly 100hr weeks these last two weeks as there is a lot going on and yes I’m a bit tired and run down so keeping up with the forums hasn’t been somthing I’ve been able to squeeze in.

Having looked over the title of the thread originally and the ensuing dialogue I appreciate the change of title and would ask we just try to steer clear of being deliberately divisive.

We are a broad church here and pretty much the only thing we share in common is a love of gaming.

So it’s really easy to cause splits and arguments when we stray from that and it is a bit of a hair trigger.

Noone on here should EVER be told they dont belong. Sharing a love of gaming is all the card you need to carry to enjoy a bit of escapism here on gaming, there is a whole wide world where we can argue about the other stuff that effects us 🙂

If someone said No Vets I would be just as annoyed, or No Grognards or No Gays or No Blacks or No Goths or No Disabled or No Jews or No Irish none of it is acceptable and none of it relates to gaming. So we dont need it. Cutting off folk (or giving the impression of even by accident) doesn’t help a small tight nit community stay healthy.

I appreciate there is just a ton of blurry lines in all of this and I rely on you guys as a community to keep the peace. Because arguments, bitching and rage quits really just brings the tone of the fun down and doesn’t do any of us any good when we are all just looking for a little bit of escapism from ‘real life’ (which no doubt is both hard and confusing these days)

Now I try to be consistent in my approach to these things over the years, and no doubt some of you will think I’m being ‘mealy mouthed’ but let me try to unpack my position on this…

I’m a tired Dad of 4 who has spent the last 10 years building this community with others and we earn minimum wage, I’m a live and let live kind of guy who doesn’t have massively strong opinions on politics and stuff like that. I like people for who they are and dont really care about their colour or their creed or what they have between their legs. I like gaming and I like to learn stuff from folk. I tend not to knee jerk to stuff because I’m never in any doubt that I may be the least informed in the room so I try to understand people and situations before wading in. I appreciate loyalty and try to give it whenever I can. I try to be consistent but I’m also very open to change my mind as I learn more. Did I mention I’m tired?

I have a young family who will grow up to become people with their own identities I’d like to think in gaming they can be accepted as One of Us.

So yeah, I appreciate us keeping civil and trying to focus where we can on what unites us, but also understands there are crossovers into real life and we give a platform for those discussions too, but let’s try to be welcoming to one another day to day.

Having the community break into factions bitching about each other behind each others backs is pretty depressing. You may think its fresh or it shakes things up, you may even think I deserve having to deal with it.

Perhaps take a walk in my shoes first before deciding that.

Thanks all and peace.