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Re: New LEGO Universe Tradition Card Game coming
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Date: 
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:42:28 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, John Neal wrote:
   Yeah, but I think that the analogy is flawed. The horseless carriage is FAR superior to what it replaced; other boards may have a nice feature here and there, but they are not VASTLY superior to LUGNET. I think that there is great value in different AFOL groups like the train guys and the space guys hanging out in close proximity. THAT is community. Various theme-specific pre-fab boards, or chatting that goes on on an image site like Flickr is the very definition of compartmentalized dorkage......

While I am also disappointed with the reduced interraction on LUGNET, I don’t see other boards as bad, even if they aren’t superior in features. And I totally disagree about flickr - it allows conversations to go every which way no matter where they started, which I see as the antithesis of compartmentalised dorkiness. Takes a bit of getting used to for compartmentalised dorks like me...

ROSCO



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  Re: New LEGO Universe Tradition Card Game coming
 
(...) A little late on the reply here (missed this post), but here goes anyway: I don't see them as bad per se, it's just that they seem to be replacing LUGNET, because people only have so much time to devote to LEGO (what is wrong with these (...) (14 years ago, 28-Aug-10, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)  

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  Re: New LEGO Universe Tradition Card Game coming
 
(...) Yeah, but I think that the analogy is flawed. The horseless carriage is FAR superior to what it replaced; other boards may have a nice feature here and there, but they are not VASTLY superior to LUGNET. I think that there is great value in (...) (14 years ago, 30-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)

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