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Posted by: JAY132
Guy sounds like a bigger Bungie fan than almost everyone in this thread if you ask me.No offense, but the author's self-proclaimed status as a Bungie fan does not change the way the article reads. I think that it's safe to say that you, and I, and most everybody who read the Time article first was quite surprised to read the author's blog and discover that he seems to be a Bungie fan. This, in and of itself, should speak volumes about the tone and implications raised by the Time article.
At the same time, I can't help but acknowledge that there are many hard core Bungie fans that say much worse things about the Bungie fanbase in this very forum, and all over this website. Perhaps this can be reconciled, though. Compare the Bungie Community to something along the lines of your own family (not saying that it IS your family -- just drawing a comparison). Most people would understand the concept that you are willing to say some pretty bad things about your family members to your other family members, but you would never go out and say those same things in that same way to a newspaper or a magazine. It's the same concept here, I think. Bungie fans feel "safe" bashing their own community when they are talking to their own community -- but they would hesitate (for the most part) to go out and tell a bunch of non-gaming old people that the Bungie Community is filled with sad, lonely, deluded, unpopular, lazy teenagers, especially out of context as this article is. That is part of the feeling of betrayal here, except that on top of this "betrayal," Lev is wrong in so many ways (e.g., the stereotype of the sad, lonely, deluded, unpopular, lazy teenager).
In short, I do not think that Lev's blog takes anything away from the condescending tone and negative connotations peppered throughout this article. If anything, that blog entry makes it worse, making it appear that an "insider" has both sold himself out and lied about the Bungie Community in order to sell a few extra magazines.
The mere fact that so many people are a upset about the article lends merit to that feeling. They are not wrong any more than the people who say that the article doesn't bother them are wrong.
[Edited on 09.08.2007 1:15 PM PDT]