People don't live in tiny villages any more. This "play locally" crap really is crap. We have planes and the internet. My son married a girl he met on the internet, from Scotland*. All of my kids have friends that they interact with EVERY DAY from other countries, from other languages. They sometimes play using a mishmash of English, Brazilian, and curse words from around the world. They make up words -- sometimes just because there is a new idea and it doesn't have a word yet. I love this world. I love that the people in my life are in the same room with me and on the other side of the world. I am sorry that not everyone lives in this kind of universe -- yet. But they will.
Anyway, my real point is: the main objectors are from a certain generation of Scrabble play, with lower NSA member numbers (that might be whimsical; I have no idea if they are sequential member numbers). A lot of them are also from a certain actual generation. The new generations (Scrabble and otherwise) are not "afraid of teh pods". We just have to be patient and keep doing the work.
*And if she tries to play Scrabble with her little brother using official sites, she is actually not allowed to do so, because of the insane Hasbro/Mattel split. You objectors, you are like the rats who catch toxoplasmosis from the cats and then do the cats' bidding. Really. The masters have installed a parasite in your brain, and that parasite is OSPD.
Yes, I'm melodramatic. It's the holidays.
