The Culture: Let Hobbyists Teach Hobbyists The Hobby (h/t Dunder Moose)

"I would like someone to walk me through the process."

Dunder Moose has your back. (He has a blog, Tales of Dunderia; see the Links page for this and more.)

This is what we need more of now: hobbyists teaching hobbyists how to engage in the hobby.

Not shills shlepping product. Not corpos creating cults of CONSUME PRODUCT. People who enjoy a thing teaching other people who are curious about the thing how to enjoy the thing.

Y'know, like teaching someone how to play Baseball or how to cook with a campfire.

That's what we need more of instead of "Just buy more product. Consume more product. Product no work? Buy more product to fix bad product!" that we get with Conventional Play. For the Hobby to fully revitalize, this Hobbyists Teaching The Hobby stuff needs to proliferate.

We don't need a culture that sells shit that no one needs to address problems that should not exist; we need the old culture where people learned how to use and master the tools they already have.

That is a threat for more than a few out there, hence the freakouts, but it needs to be done.

Good on Dunder for stepping up like this.