Re: Redspot and STW, between the innocence and injustince
I was actually going to post this in the RS topic that I posted to yesterday, but after reading this thread, it applies to here as well.
I have a couple more observations to make. Most people are intrinsically what they are going to be by the age of five. Does that mean that they cannot acquire wisdom through experience and mistakes? No. Does it mean that they cannot change the way they handle situations, circumstances, or adversity? Of course not. But fundamentally, core beliefs and personality traits have been set, and it will most likely take a very traumatic, life-altering experience to shake someone's core violently enough to change them in any significant way. That means that if intrinsically a person is sweet and tenderhearted, those traits will more readily be evident as they grow into adulthood; the same applies to those who tend toward being acerbic and phallic in their dealings with others. Right and wrong is also instilled at a very young age; by the age of 12 a child knows that it is wrong to cheat, lie, steal, etc. I believe that what hurts a child/adolescent most is that they do not have a clear understanding of their true personality or their strengths and weaknesses, and they do not recognize (or fail to acknowledge) that they need help; therefore, they blindly muddle through, hoping for the best. Let's take the whole Redspot (and now STW) thing, for example:
I do not know Sam beyond the few chat sessions we have had related to questions I had in re coding of my own project. I am not aware of what his actual age is, and as such, I can only go by what I have seen in these threads. I do not know him well enough as a person to speak on his personality traits and the like. I will say that it is absolutely normal for human beings to create social groups of like-minded individuals, or individuals with who they share commonalities of interests, hobbies, etc. His desire to play a game with the friends that he enjoys is absolutely reasonable. Some people make friends much easier than others; some people have friends numbering in the upper double digits, while some count themselves lucky to have only one or two. Personality plays a role in this, most definitely. I suspect that it is much easier for an ESTP or ESFJ to make friends than it is for an INTP or INTJ. So if Sam has only a select few true friends, then of course, he's going to want to enjoy something that he developed with them. That being said, no advantage should be given to his friends solely based on that fact, and that applies to the developer as well. As to the rest, based on what I have read (assuming that credibility is not in issue; it is more difficult to distinguish truth, and the level thereof from each side, where the printed word is the only medium presented) in terms of his unwillingness to change, his refusal to try new ideas, etc., I have to wonder if this is a case where he's not seeing strengths/weaknesses in himself, specifically the weakness of not adapting to change well. While we all struggle against change to some degree as part of the human condition, some deal with it more easily than others. Moreover, maybe a part of his reluctance stems from not wanting a particular idea or dream that he envisioned when he first started developing this project to die, or to be altered to such an extent as to render it virtually dead. Such staunch reluctance (no matter the reason for it), while understandable to a degree, however, is something which in the long-term will more likely than not serve to cause more difficulties than it alleviates and will most likely alienate players from your project, and recognition of these facts might serve Sam well in the future.
Ideally, knowing your personality, and what strengths and weaknesses you bring to the table can help immensely in a case such as this. If I were going to develop an online game such as this, I would choose for my admins an ENTJ as my top guy for their leadership qualities, and I would want a team of at least an ENTP, ENFP, INTP, and ISTP.
It is my hope that Sam will learn more about himself over the coming years, because from all that I have read in these threads, it appears that he has the potential in terms of actual coding. Now he just needs to recognize when the social aspect of things is beyond what he can handle, and ask for help when he needs it.
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