First, the Dude does abide. Second, I think usually when we use the term newbie with disdain, saying they got all our tickets, is not necessarily bitterness toward someone who has legitimately been following the game the whole time but lurked or just never felt like posting (it baffles me that this is the case but I don't doubt its truth), but toward the people who ended up with tickets who just found out that day, because apparently what happened, according to some I asked in the Speakeasy, was that /overture was mentioned on the SHH main page or something a couple hours before the clock ended and they ended up finding out that day, and still getting tickets.
There are newbs, and there are newbs, and sometimes it doesn't really make any difference, but there was this sudden influx of people who literally found out that day and snatched up a ton of tickets. I think we feel resentment toward those people. I have no problems with new people on the boards so long as they either know what's going on organically or through the Wiki...but a ton of people showed up that day and a lot of people who've been following for months got screwed out of tickets.
But again, this is just another part of the imperfect system of viral marketing. There are too many real world variables for anything to go off without a hitch, and in the case of kickingandscreening, this happens to be that big variable (like with the Pizzeria thing, the variable was obviously the extraordinary number of stupid/greedy Domino's employees).
And the thing is, I think the people who've been playing and COULD go are going because since we're such an eager network of Hypers, we've got each other's backs, but I know not everyone who deserved one managed, and it kind of frustrates me that there will be a bunch of clueless people scattered among us. I don't fault them for not following the game entirely, I just think that what's really rad about these screenings is that, aimed for viral people, it gives us the opportunity to live out the culmination of events with each other instead of having to break apart, and a bunch of people eager to see the movie two days early remain ignorant of this. Obviously...you are not among those people.
So, like I said...I don't think any of us (or most of us who aren't total jerks) would group you among the "newbs" we currently treat with such elitist disdain (and hey, how often do we, the overdedicated nerds, get the chance to be really elitist? Rarely do we have what EVERYONE else wants).
Thanks in advance.
