We’re on Round 3 of the Member Spotlight and so far this has received a solid amount of feedback. I know you guys are itching to learn more about one of your more outspoken forum members, thus why I chose to go with Seebs for this week’s entry.

A lot of people have seen him arguing and debating his way through an ample supply of topics with ease and great intellect. This interview will definitely give you a look into why he does what he does and how much he enjoys the world of gaming that we all cherish together. It’s a somewhat long read with a great sense of gaming history. I hope you guys enjoy it.

Dave Wales: How has PSU.com impacted your life in terms of online friendships, gaming knowledge, and views in regards to other consoles?

Seebs: I've gotten to know a lot more about PS3 gaming than I probably otherwise would. I found the site through a Google search on the question of why my PS3 might not work with my display; I actually found a thread that answered the question, as well as a couple more people contradicting the answer, so I registered to post a corrected answer. Since then, I've gotten to know a lot of people on the site, and I like many of them. I don't think my views on the consoles have changed much, but it's been fun talking about them with people, and I occasionally pick up a technical tidbit.

Dave Wales: Have you forged any online friendships?

Seebs: Not very deep ones, but there's a lot of people I've talked to about things far beyond gaming; I've had interesting conversations with people about religion, pets, you name it. Mostly it's been pretty informal and chatty; the focus on gaming doesn't really encourage the kind of deep heart-to-heart conversations you'd get on a religion site or something like that.

Dave Wales: Yeah, gaming is pretty much the "icebreaker" into the other topics for a forum like ours. Kind of like the gateway drug, if you will. I've seen you active in a lot of debates around the forum and you seem to take an interest with the fanboy persona, do you have any reasons as to why?

Seebs: To make a long story short, a while back I became convinced that the essential problem facing humanity, I mean, ‘THE’ problem, is tribalism. It's the decision to divide into "us" and "them"; the love of seeing "them" suffer. When I showed up, I saw people gloating about how the 360 fans and Wii fans would be crying, and that just offends me a whole lot. I don't care where I see it; if I see people gloating about how people they aren't like will suffer, I tend to get involved and try to break that mold.

So I try to be around and help people recognize when they're getting sorta crazy, and just be a person who isn't really on the "PS3 fan" side, but who isn't hostile to the PS3, and will help people out, give them advice, and otherwise not be some kind of faceless thing they can just hate. I know it sounds trivial to worry about gaming fanboys, but the brain chemistry is no different between console fanboys and religious fanatics, and I want people to start seeing other people as ‘people’.

Dave Wales: So you're like the Martin Luther King of Format Wars and you just have a dream? It almost sounds like the entire format war is the equivalent of a race war, though obviously not as extreme, would you agree with that?

Seebs: I think so. People get so caught up in wanting to "win". Look at the way people are gloating about Blu-ray over HD-DVD. If you had a friend, and your friend looked at a pair of competing products, and picked one, and spent a few hundred dollars on it, and a month later that product pretty much went under; would you laugh in his face, and gloat, and cheer? Of course not. ... (continued on next page)