Honestly luke crane was the first person in the scene to actually critically engage with me on, well, anything having to do with indie gaming. Rather than just start fights or dismiss me or smirk that I was just an old trad dude — those all happened, repeatedly, at story-games.com — he was super smart about really drilling into the hard parts, explaining them in a way I could understand, accepting critical pushback, and so on. He’s a confrontational dude and I totally get that he’s not everyone’s flavor of the month, but that was a great early relationship to form and I’ll always be grateful.