Recent FUMBBL events have lead me to believe I am a member of the biggest group of plonkers on this here interweb; the Fun Police.

Ever since the advent of Blackbox, there have been a small group of persistent coaches that have stopped at nothing to loudly explain a variety of things, that real men only play in the box, that Ranked is now obsolete and if you hang around you must just be a picker that doesn't want a real challenge, that tournamnets should be stripped from R and B only, etc, etc, ad nauseum. You know the sorts of points that have been made. Now, whether you agree with that or not isn't really the issue, the issue is the Fun Police.

Who are the Fun Police? Are they like some sort of secret society? How am I a member, and why am I a plonker?

The Fun Police are the band of coaches that tell you how you should have fun on FUMBBL. How you should agree with their point of view and cajole others into playing YOUR way and having YOUR fun. All other forms of fun are somehow lesser variants and should attract your distain.

I never thought I was a plonker. Well, I knew I was, but not in this way! This recent line of B coaches have been annoying me, not because they might have a point, but because I enjoy R. I don't enjoy it from a l33t me > other point of view, or that CR keeps me warm and cosy at night (yeah, right!), but I like that I can select the team I want to play with, I can select interesting fun games, and I can play and have fun how I like. The wall of noise from coaches wanting me to play in a way I found less fun riled me a bit. However, sadly, I've come to realise they remind me of me.

I spent lots of my early time on FUMBBL pointing out how I don't really like / see the point of Majors. It's a view I still hold to some degree or other, but I did get a bit militant about forcing the view on others. I like leagues. I think they're better tests of team management, skill, progression, etc, and I don't like how major teams are built using the R system.

Now, you might agree or disagree with that, that's not my point (and Lord knows, we're never all going to agree). My point is that me ramming that down some people's throats wasn't / isn't big nor clever. There is a large chunk of coaches that live for these things, get really excited by them, and find them enormous fun. Who the hell am I to belittle them and tell them their idea of fun isn't correct?

Other Fun Police members, I urge you to join me in resigning from the force for evermore from here on out. BB coaches should enjoy BB however the hell they like, all power to those of you that just get on and have fun and don't waste time telling everyone else how to do it.

Afterall; when you're 80 (if you're lucky) looking back on this period of your life (I'll take a wild guess; male, 25-35, first or second job, clinging to some sense of geeky community fun.... Or is that just me?), you'll wonder how you spent numerous hours playing a computer simulation of a board game and feel somewhat of a plonker. You could have solved World hunger with those thousands of hours down the toilet. Learnt the guitar. Spent more time with her indoors.

You'd feel an _even bigger_ plonker if you had spent even more hours telling someone else you'll never meet how your version of fun was better than theirs.

Be the lesser of two plonkers. Don't be in the Fun Police.