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Originally Posted by Felon  This is just equivocation. "I'm not being rude to you, just saying rude things about your opinion. I'm not violating any rules by labeling you as stupid, I'm just labeling your point of view".
Rude is rude. The person(s) experiencing said nerdrage probably don't see their behavior as irrational, and likely aren't swayed by having others call it nerdrage. More likely, it's just baiting them. |
Quite possibly. In which case, it would be just the same as "dumbing down". Or "videogamey". Or "rollplaying not roleplaying". Or....
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That's a much less direct association. You produce your feelings, other people produced D&D. The implications of called a game "dumbed-down" is not necessarily calling the people playing it dumb. Case in point: I play 4e, I do feel it's dumbed-down quite a bit, and yet I don't think my group of players is dumb at all.
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"I'm not being rude to you, just saying rude things about what you like" does not seem that far removed from the above. And if you don't feel insulted by it, there's no reason you should be insulted by nerd rage either; they're both similarly distanced.
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