I'm troubled that my googling found none of those articles; I didn't think there was all that much research showing it definitively sickening, but was basing my view on repeated personal experience. Thanks, Graebeard.
Ok.. I don't see how the length of time you've followed the devlog has anything to do with what I'm saying - I've read it daily for years, but I still took the time to actually read the NYT article.
I'm shocked that people who clearly did not actually read the article are making a big deal about his lifestyle and making suggestions on how to change it - especially when it comes to issues that are clearly addressed in the article as not actually a problem - and that so many people who did read the article do not have the reading retention to remember what it actually said before posting here. I'm shocked because the article had plenty of cool stuff in it that we could be talking about, but instead we have a 234 post thread mostly dedicated bitching about his diet and how messy his room is, or telling him how to live his life.
I thought we had a smarter, better educated, more polite population in this forum than the internet average. I honestly thought we were better than this - That's why I'm shocked.
Perhaps disappointed would have been a better choice of words.
(I was extremely confused by your post until I realized you were exaggerating, and overeacting to the overeactions. It's alright, as there's nothing extreme or corrupted about these things, and we'll talk it out pretty much regardless.)
All the really important or cool parts of article are already woven into the dev-log, DF talks, FotF posts, and our very forum culture. When those of us who've been around for a while read them, we aren't learning anything new because it's almost a part of us and our ideals; we're varied of course, so it's not like everyone is a complete proponent of exactly what's written there, but we all know the direction. So we're really scanning for inconsistencies or things the author might have gotten wrong, and when we don't find those, some of us imagine them, or we stick to the things we weren't expecting. Like Toady's living habits. So, since our minds are so prepared to get stuck on this thing, we take it as a problem, and like engineers and builders, start trying to come up with ways to fix it. But they are still all just suggestions; Toady can ignore them or pick and choose as he wishes just like with the question-suggests of the FotF thread.
So, just in case he
does just happen to pick something we've suggested, we want to embelish on those suggestions, and show we know what we're talking about.