By Spacemonkey on Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 02:43 am:
Bravo.
By Michael Murphy (Murph) on Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 03:06 am:
Wow.
Two thumbs up. That's the kind of stuff I've been wanting to hear about this whole thing.
Man. Kudos, Tom.
By Rama on Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 08:11 am:
That ended up somewhere near beautiful. Thank you.
Eapen
By Westyx (Westyx) on Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 09:43 am:
Well done.
By Jeff Lackey on Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 10:07 am:
Damned nice piece of writing Tom.
By Anonymous on Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 12:41 pm:
Nice job. I always enjoy reading the Shoot Club stories, but this one was especially good.
By Mark Bussman on Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 01:49 pm:
Awesome job Tom.
By Tim Elhajj on Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 04:01 pm:
Now that's a morale booster, Tom! Thanks for the hard work. I enjoyed it.
By Squirrel Killer on Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 08:23 pm:
It is amazing how cathartic a piece of quasi-fiction can be. Reading about it lets us know that others feel the same way and yet cope differently. With different perspectives, we've moved beyond the rote "What do you think?" "Shock." dialogue, and shows us a path to cope with the tragedy.
Thank you for "Simple patriotism is too petty anymore," it's exactly how I'm feeling with all of these idiots running around singing "America the Beautiful" and yelling for genocide. It reminds me of the nationalism that swept Europe at the onset of WWI before the horrors of modern war were known. On the other hand, I've never felt a time where the "Star Spangled Banner" was more approriate.
BTW - I started reading Shoot Club right after "Clicking Away At Healing Potions" was posted, it's too bad that my fix for a new column came because of such a tragedy. Write on Chickster.
By Jeff Jones on Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 08:53 pm:
Tom, You should be writing for Time Magazine, not QT3. (no offense to QT3, of course).
By Rob on Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 11:20 pm:
When is Jeff Green or one of the editors going to snap up Shoot Club? It is pretty much the only main stream quality level column (hell with column, main stream quality level anything) coming out of the gaming world. Nice work Tom, especially with writing a piece that takes a lot of chances. You pulled it off nicely.
ps. No offense to Three Fingered Salute, but Shoot Club has the power to hold our imaginations. And I don't mean just Trevor, I mean the idea of the club, the games, the other players, and yourself (the most believable character). I hope you can use the title in a magazine.
By Michael Murphy (Murph) on Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 11:33 pm:
I second both of those last two notions. I thought of Time magazine, too, when I read this one. With just a short preface, I think it would fit there quite nicely.
And I, for one, would definitely subscribe to any magazine that ran Shoot Club, if I didn't already have a subscription. (Since I do get all three of the big "gaming mags," though, I doubt that's possible.)
Heck, here we go: I'll get a second subscription to any mag which runs Shoot Club!! Ya hear me, Green, Bauman??
Who's with me??
By Jeff Jones on Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 12:04 am:
Count me in, Murph. Say, you wouldn't be the Mike Murphy that used to hang out in csipg.sports, would you? The one that ran MaddenCentral?
By Michael Murphy (Murph) on Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 12:10 am:
Nope. Sorry.
By Brian Rucker on Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 08:26 am:
Well, a few months ago I sent a note to Mark Frauenfelder at Wired about the column. He does stories on gaming and gaming technology occasionally. Got a reply that he was looking at it. We'll see if a mention turns up in a future issue.
I agree, this column is something special. I may have gone overboard describing Tom as the Mark Twain of the gaming community though. :)
(I still don't agree with his opinions of some titles but his ideas about gamers and humanity in general are on the money.)
By Jeff Jones on Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 01:16 pm:
"I agree, this column is something special. I may have gone overboard describing Tom as the Mark Twain of the gaming community though. :)"
I don't know, maybe you didn't. He's the only game-industry writer that's caused my eyes to well up with tears ... twice. And I don't mean from laughter (although that's happened too).
By Jim Frazer on Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 02:40 pm:
Beautiful writing Tom, this one is going in the Sept 11th scrapbook that I'm throwing together. Trying to capture what everyone is feeling and this Shoot Club hit the nail on the head for a lot of us.
By TomChick on Friday, September 21, 2001 - 03:52 am:
Just a quick note to say thanks for the kind words. They mean a lot to me. I had some reservations about whether to even post this last Shoot Club. I'm glad I did.
Mark and I started this site thinking we might be able to make money from it. Instead, we've gotten something much more valuable: an audience. Thank you all for being there.
-Tom
By Mark Asher on Friday, September 21, 2001 - 04:01 am:
"Mark and I started this site thinking we might be able to make money from it."
Our timing was impeccable. It was like buying a villa in Pompei the week before Vesuvius erupted.
By kazz on Friday, September 21, 2001 - 02:44 pm:
"Our timing was impeccable. It was like buying a villa in Pompei the week before Vesuvius erupted."
Hey, if they'd had "reality TV" back then, you'd a made a mint...
I'm glad this site was around this past week. Overall, it's a real good bunch of folks here, and it did help us all, I think.