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Oh wait, we are talking about the Fort here. Strike the above and replace that with „Just another blog by a bloke with delusions of thinking his opinions were in any way relevant (or even interesting)“.
That’s the consequential development of the internet in general and the phenomenon labeled web 2.0 in specific: Everybody inclined to offer his opinion is given countless opportunities to do so. Blogs, forums, community sites, twitter and what-not, usually combined with the inevitable commentary function to multiply the chatter. We have become a global cracker-barrel, with tons of cackle flung back and forth, with a highly variable signal-to-noise ratio.
Opinions are like assholes, and so on ..
Not that it was ever any different, but today anybody with a high-enough intelligence to actually type words (not regarding spelling, grammar or even resemblance to normal language) can do that on a global scale. The world as potential audience.
So let’s be honest: The Fort is simply another expression of the web 2.0 culture. A dude who thinks he has some pearls of wisdom to offer to a world which has just waited for another blog to clog the net.
And what’s worse, this guy isn’t even so much rooted in the community. He doesn’t regularly visit other TF-sites, he isn’t part of a clan, heck, he’s not even a decent player. His knowledge is inferior to that of any halfway ambitious gamer, but he pretends to have it all worked out.
Conveniently he writes about some highbrow stuff which almost nobody interests anyway, so it doesn’t stand out so much. As such he’s pretty much sabotaging his own agenda, therefore his own site. One could say it’s natural selection at work, but sadly that law of nature far too little applies to blogs.
So let’s just hope that he realizes soon that in fact he has little interesting to tell and stops wasting time and energy.
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