All journalists are.

The negative journalism has managed to kill my silver business (which the months-long seizure of all my assets by the government cound not accomplish!) and a restaurant chain I was involved with. With both, I made the mistake thinking that the publicity in general would bring more users than the bad publicity in particular would cause us to lose.

With a game, especially a targeted one (and anonymous one), I am again tempted to believe that if someone shoots bad journalism at us, it will not be effective because "our target group are the most self-sufficient and intelligent people who are immune to leftwing writings". The game is so much bigger. It is an attempt to regenerate the attitude in "the world of 1991" when global warming was a joke, not propaganda to be parroted at gunpoint, computer games could do what they want, laughing at subjects now forbidden was allowed, some of the governments tried to at least act as the servants of the people... and at the same time recreate "the world of 1605", the century of the Sun-King, with the pervasive culture we have already nurtured in the game for 11 months.

It is not just an investment, it is also not just a game. It is a virtual world - not a "counter-culture" because the mainstream culture is the one that has become counter to life. This is the true society recreated virtually, and yeah it is hard to explain outside of the context, like life itself. All the ones who play can testify how it feels. They have the knowing look in their eyes, as if they had had access to secret mushrooms that make them understand things that the others don't. And yes we have mushrooms in the game.