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Keeping the Raid Bank Full

Published by ConfigSys.boy! on August 15th, 2010

Having trouble salving the drama in your healer crew?  Dealing with an overly aggressive member of DPS?  Banging your head against the desk because of an obstinate tank?

Did you think you left the stressful dynamics of team leadership at the office so you could come home and relax?

Surprise!  Welcome to Raid Leadership.

Many of us may not ever stop to consider that leading a Raid (ie: an ongoing team or community, not a pick-up event) can be just as difficult as any typical team leadership assignment in the real world.  Indeed, in an online entertainment based medium there can be any number of additional challenges not usually faced in a business leadership environment.  For the most part however, the interpersonal challenges universally faced by leaders across the spectrum of team endeavors exist in equal measure for those ill-fated souls foolish enough to try leading their gaming peers in slaying dargons, handling welps, and other various and sundry digital dungeon crawls.

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The Social Geeks

Published by ConfigSys.boy! on August 9th, 2010

It is an interesting incongruity to me that Geeks of all stripes have traditionally been painted as either anti-social or otherwise completely incapable of existing in any form of community. This I believe is a misrepresentation brought on by the dissonance between our behaviors and the social norms that exist around us. In my experience though, It is not anything like an accurate portrait of the average Geek. Quite the contrary I believe that our culture, while certainly out-of-phase with the mainstream, may in fact be more socially oriented than the norm – we just tend to have a different center of gravity for our social connections.

Take for instance all of the fan conventions we have created and nurtured into the giant hulking behemoths of today. Is there another cultural slice of society outside of Geekdom that is so driven to gather in this way, to this extent?

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The Art of Games

Published by ConfigSys.boy! on August 22nd, 2004

History never seems to happen quite so fast as our progressive pundits predict that it will, nor as fast as we would seem to like it to. Nevertheless it does happen. Paradigms are abolished in favor of new orders, industries rise and fall, governments do change and in retrospect we can often look back call the developments speedy affairs. While they are in process though they tend to take forever happening and never come in quite the fashion we expected nor on the timetables presented us by the insightful analysts who hold forth on such subjects.

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On Being Geek

Published by ConfigSys.boy! on March 11th, 2003

It is really a very typical sort of encounter for me. I’ve quite gotten used to it. I am standing in a store aisle lusting after some new technological toy when the lady in the purple dress suit approaches me and asks, “Excuse me, Sir. Can you help me?” It used to bother me, but I’ve worked retail in one form or another for a substantial period of my life and I’ve learned why it happens and come to terms with it.

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