Back when The Barenaked Ladies song One Week first came out, I thought it was a pretty cool song. I even bought the CD, which I still own to this day. But over the coming months, I began to hear it over and over and over again day after day after day. I got pretty sick of that song. Today, the only time the CD gets pulled out is when my wife is feeling nostalgic. It still annoys the hell out of me.
Empyre, you are a person who, I am almost positive, has some talent in real life. I am sure that you do your job relatively well and that you enjoy your personal existence most of the time. Here, however, you present none of that. You are like Jeb, the arthritic bloodhound laying on the front porch unable to make a difference anymore.
Your beliefs are not, to me, out of the ordinary. I know quite a few people who share them, and I myself once did, as well. You're problem is that you do your position no good by defending it. Were you a true believer, you would recognize this. It takes two people without the common sense to drop it to argue a point. Unless one can say "That's all I have to say about it", the positions become more entrenched and fanaticism arises. Additionally, you do a poor job defending your beliefs. Hyperbole and melodrama have their place, I admit. I use them myself from time to time. You, on the other hand, don't seem to understand that an exageration loses its effect when it is your primary method of argument.
As to your specific point, I frequent very few other boards of any kind, much less game boards, and even less so the flame or "oot" equivalent of those boards. While in my writing I fancy myself a wearer of the mantle of Old Greybeard, in this and other forums, I imitate no one. If you care about this forum, and the direction in which it is headed, I suggest you pull your head out of your ***, find a coherant thought, express it, and leave it be.