We Are Worthy

As many of you are already aware, John M. Ford http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_M._Ford died yesterday. I only knew him, as chadu and others did, through his presence on the Pyramid message boards, where his sig lines are things of legend. (The "Frodo, PI" one still gives me the giggles when I think on it.)

He was, as mnemex pointed out in the past, a gamer who wrote about gamers as if being a gamer were no big deal. Nothing to be ashamed of, nothing to be singled out for, just another aspect of the character's complex personality. That made his gamers real - as real as the rest of his writing.

But the thing I want to share is this: when another Pyramid poster responded to a Ford sig line with the Wayne's World "we're not worthy!', Mr. Ford's response was "Yes, you are. That's why I do it." So to all you gamers and fans out there who buy into the general public belief that you're silly or foolish or misanthropic or in any way less than others, I remind you - you are worthy.

None less than John M. Ford has proclaimed you so.