@Keara: We’ll take the bacon, and we may leave…but i doubt it will be quietly :>

1. “Assimilating (taking over) all of Home” is, at least for me, tongue-in-cheek. It isn’t even an official “Rule” of the Collective. To me, it’s an amusing part of the role-playing. I’m the current Commander of Homeling Mothership 3, but I personally have no actual dreams of Glory and Conquest. Don’t tell anyone xD

I welcome anyone who shares our ideals (Respect, Snazzy uniform, Fun, Bacon) to join, but Homelings do welcome non-members to hang out with us and enjoy many of our events as well. I have quite a few friends on my FL who are not Homelings and who never will be. I’ve belonged to a few other Home clubs while also being a Homeling, mostly Home bowling leagues. There’s never been a problem with that.

2. Homeling “ranks” are the direct result of the way Sony set up their clubhouses. Each of our “Motherships” (“clubouses”) has 1 Commander (“club leader”) and 4 Subcommanders (“club sub-leaders”) because that’s how Sony set up the administrative operations of the clubhouses that Sony created for Home. I’d be very surprised if any other Home club had a different sort of organization, for this reason. They may use different names, but every club in home MUST use this setup. It’s inherent in Home’s design.

3. Resistance is futile.

I really love how the Homelings can create this wonderful infrastructure, it’s with a military precision and yet they come across as loose and easygoing all at the same time. I was happy to meet Queen Eli, who was polite and approachable (And most of you are)
And I just like how you create your whole identity and culture. I have to say I’m fascinated by the way that you see the world. The closes thing I can compare this to is Kevin Spacey’s ‘Prot’, from the movie K-PAX in which we see the world from his ‘Otherwordly’ point of view.

Burbie, I love your Grey Gamers, and I for one in answer to Gideon’s point of view have still been interested in everyone else in home. True it may be counter productive in joining the other social activities on Home, if there were constant meetings that would invade your whole ‘Home’ life, but i wouldn’t call it a dangerous thing. But I get your point that it can otherwise drag you away from Home in general if you let it happen. because, just like Second Life, my original playground, Home is what you make of it.

I have a concern about the concept of niche though… doesn’t that just segregate Home. I mean, I completely understand the concept behind the Grey Gamers and I think it’s a wonderful idea but there is a fine line that has to be walked to keep from being a discriminatory. What about an exclusive club based on gender, religion, sexual orientation or race? Would those be alright? Should a niche be a way that you are all intrinsically different than the other people in Home or should it be based on like interests? Why is being part of a group a virtue in and of itself?

I know I have lost friends to clubs / fams / gangs / gaggles… whatever you want to call them. Once they join some group they become disinterested in anyone or anything else and that just seems dangerous and counterproductive to what Home should be.

And you’re more than welcome to do some hanging with the Homelings (what a good name for a corny 80’s TV pilot…nobody steal it, it’s mine) any time you see us gathered in Home. Even if you don’t want to join, we still welcome all to come and gather with us. Never be afraid to come dance in our bubbles :>