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- From: holsten@insect.berkeley.EDU (Donna Holsten)
- Subject: RE: Who's game are you playing?
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:09:01 GMT
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- Greetings-
-
- I am a newcomer to the Rialto, although not to the SCA, and I have
- been following the discussions on several topics, specifically: the purpose
- of the CoA, the age at which one becomes "adult", how important it is to be
- "authentic" or "in period", fighters who play only to hurt others, etc.
-
- It seems to me that the answer to all of these questions is: Who's game are
- you playing? Everyone who comes to the SCA does so for a different reason,
- and plays by different rules. Some rules (e.g., submitting a device and
- name to the CoA) are followed by the majority of people, but this does not
- necessarily make them absolute. If someone does not wish to submit to the
- CoA, so be it. If someone doesn't wish to camp with me because I am only 21
- (have a B.A., am married, and I do *not* consider myself a child), so be it.
- If someone values comfort over authenticity, so be it.
-
- One of the reasons that I joined the SCA was that I saw a higher quality of
- person than I did in the mundane world. I saw people who had consideration,
- kindness, and courtesy. I have learned to extend that same courtesy to those
- who do not share my views. I am willing to accept that not everyone is
- playing my game, and would hope that others would accept it as well. I will
- invite others to share my set of rules, but will *never* insist. When I
- find that my rules differ greatly from those of the majority of other
- people, I either change my rules, or change the people with whom I play.
-
- I recently (within the past year) moved out of a small, closely-knit shire
- in Caid to the Principality of the Mists, West. The game is played a
- lot differently here, and I seriously considered leaving the SCA entirely.
- Reading through all of the opinions expressed here on the Rialto, I
- realized that there *are* people who share my set of rules, who are in the
- SCA for the same reasons I am. I realized that, although it might take some
- work on my part, I *will* find my niche here in the West. I would like to
- encourage all those pour lost souls like myself to try one more time; people
- change, and so do entire groups, and if you are dissatisfied with the SCA
- today, either change your rules, your group of friends, or wait a year or
- so.
-
- I would like to thank all of the good gentles on the Rialto who have
- contributed to my decision to give it another shot.
-
- Joanna Melissa Ronsivalle Donna Holsten
- Or, in pale two bottlenosed holsten@insect.berkeley.edu
- dolphins, naiant, sable
- Joanna Melissa Ronsivalle Donna Holsten
- Or, in pale two bottlenosed holsten@insect.berkeley.edu
- dolphins, naint, sable
-