I am like you in that I want the TGM community to coexist. COEXIST. Not hug each other or even agree with each other. Not one up each other, not let our ego’s determine our path…but to COEXIST and teach, learn, discuss, debate, even argue – with the intent to further our knowledge, our games, and (if applicable) our students games. I am not a teacher – I most likely will never be. However, I do feel as if we – though a small percentage – are a community. And I would like to see us….COEXIST. Allow others to express their opinions without attack.
That being the case…regardless of what anyone says (and trust me, NO ONE HAS TALKED TO MORE AI’S THEN ME – NO ONE – Dick Skinner? – talked to him, name em, I called em!), there are very few whom I would consider hands down experts. And of those I do consider (say, 6 tops), only three are online. And Lynn, without a doubt, is one of those.
Last edited by phillygolf : 12-15-2005 at 10:42 PM.
Factions and fractions within our own community are always going to be a fact of life. If you ever work on committees you learn that fast.
Down Under TGM is still looked at as a 'whole' and all I have to worry about is the outsiders picking at it. But we are winning those skirmishes through good info as opposed to personality picking.
As an overseas viewer of TGM in the US I look at the various camps and see each has different skills sets. At least those skill sets are there to ask questions of and can work independantly of each other without really stepping on each others toes in terms of where each gets their bread and butter from.
Its a BIG pie out there and all groups are making the TGM pie bigger and bigger.