Not surprisingly, my tiny blog’s traffic has skyrocketed in the last eight hours. While I was sleeping a lot of comments came in for moderation (I use manual moderation because of ridiculous amounts of spam, not for censorship purposes). I’ll get around to approving it soon; I don’t plan to disallow negative posts.
I realize some of my comments are somewhat inflammatory. Let me say I’m not a fan of DRM. Obviously as a PC gamer it would be nice not to ever have to deal with it, hence the shoutout to Stardock at the end of my PA post. But I do think the backlash has to a degree overshadowed everything else, and I do sort of worry about the perpetuation of an increasingly combative scene (on both sides, not just—or even mainly—the players here) that makes PC seem even more unfriendly than its reputation already makes it seem.
The irony of this for me is that this issue isn’t even generally a big talking point of mine. But Tycho liked my blog post about it, and now it looks like it’s what I’ll be known for on the internet, at least for a while. That’s life! Anyway, hopefully we can keep the DRM-related comments to my piracy post (one of my more reactionary posts, I’ll admit), and maybe a few of you will also see fit to check out some of the other stuff on this blog. Welcome to it!
