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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6249838" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>Melodramatic is right.</p><p></p><p>You know what the real breaking point is? The ubiquity of the internet.</p><p></p><p>Before that point... the only people most of us ever talked to about it were people we came into contact with personally. And those people tended to be folks with whom we shared common gaming ground with (because we wouldn't hang out with people whom we didn't get along). And thus... we rarely heard as many negative things about the games we were playing.</p><p></p><p>But now with the internet, messageboards, social media etc,... we're stuck listening to all these other people who have opinions and beliefs that are completely insane and we can't get away from them. And it has nothing to do with the games themselves. No matter where we go on the net to talk about something we like... there is an equal and opposite faction telling us that our opinion is crap and that we're idiots. Just like we feel towards them.</p><p></p><p>I would guess that had we had the internet in the early 90s... the caterwauling between D&D and Vampire: The Masquerade players would have been just as ridiculous and overblown as any 3E/4E/5E conversation. The talk about D&D is no more special or disparate as its ever been... there's just a lot more people all grouped together throwing stones.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 6249838, member: 7006"] Melodramatic is right. You know what the real breaking point is? The ubiquity of the internet. Before that point... the only people most of us ever talked to about it were people we came into contact with personally. And those people tended to be folks with whom we shared common gaming ground with (because we wouldn't hang out with people whom we didn't get along). And thus... we rarely heard as many negative things about the games we were playing. But now with the internet, messageboards, social media etc,... we're stuck listening to all these other people who have opinions and beliefs that are completely insane and we can't get away from them. And it has nothing to do with the games themselves. No matter where we go on the net to talk about something we like... there is an equal and opposite faction telling us that our opinion is crap and that we're idiots. Just like we feel towards them. I would guess that had we had the internet in the early 90s... the caterwauling between D&D and Vampire: The Masquerade players would have been just as ridiculous and overblown as any 3E/4E/5E conversation. The talk about D&D is no more special or disparate as its ever been... there's just a lot more people all grouped together throwing stones. [/QUOTE]
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