That's, uh.... that's a lot of opinion
A recent youtube video thanked the BBS Documentary for background info, then linked to my youtube playlist for it, so literally hundreds, maybe thousands of people are finding it, 15 years after I put it out there. Lots of backseat driving and lots of confusion ensues.
This one's just interesting on several levels, but it's one of many comments of people coming in with very hard opinions about a time they didn't live through and assuming that the world at the time had aspects or outlooks that, well, it didn't.
The main stand-out criticism in this to me is "I wish you had chosen the interesting people instead of the ones you chose" which... these are the interesting people, and they're interesting.

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