Gaming Fans Absolutely Blow My Mind - A Rant
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This is why I don't read comments made on articles on the internet much anymore.
I can guarantee no matter what the story is someone will be a major asshat over it.
Read a heartwarming story about a dog saving the family from a fire and you will get people whining about why is this news. Or it is "fill in the name of POTUS here"fault because their policies caused the fire. Or a rant about starving children and people spending to much money on their pets.
My blood pressure thanks me for making this decision.
I can guarantee no matter what the story is someone will be a major asshat over it.
Read a heartwarming story about a dog saving the family from a fire and you will get people whining about why is this news. Or it is "fill in the name of POTUS here"fault because their policies caused the fire. Or a rant about starving children and people spending to much money on their pets.
My blood pressure thanks me for making this decision.
Roland55
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Ok, fair enough, nothing new here. Just another Hussar rant. But, good freaking god, it just absolutely blows my mind how petty and small minded gaming fans can be.
Was looking at something unrelated on Breaking News and Opinion on The Huffington Post and news about WOTC and the new announcement of 5e (or whatever it will be called) caught my eye. Huffington post is a pretty widely big place to see D&D news, so, I took a look.
Dungeons & Dragons Remake Looks To Fans For Input
Fluff piece, for sure. But, at least it's news and it's pretty upbeat so, I'm happy. Right? Well, then I make the mistake of reading the last line:
Again, this is not a problem. So, I scroll down to see what people are saying.
SECOND FREAKING COMMENT:
HOLY CRAP! Are you freaking kidding me? D&D gets a nice mainstream, upbeat news story and people are crapping on editions? Really? What kind of mental process do you have to go through to think that edition war crap belongs in this kind of place. Considering you have posts like the following:
See, right there, Cranmer is the kind of people we WANT TO REACH OUT TO! He has no idea that there is still a TTRPG out there and most likely couldn't give twoabout edition. The community is talking all the time about how gaming is dying, about how we're losing players to video games and how gaming will go the way of model trains - an aging group of hobbyists slowly dying and then fading away.
Yet, when we get a chance to reach out to people, wingnuts like this chump can't keep their mouth shut long enough to get a positive message across.
Do me a favor. STOP HELPING THE HOBBY. If you are doing things like this, YOU, YOU PERSONALLY, are the problem. You are the reason it's hard to find other gamers. You are the one giving the rest of us a bad reputation. For the love all little fishies, PLEASE STOP!
My name is Roland and I support this rant.
However, I hope Hussar's head is feeling better, now.
MichaelSomething
Legend
What I find scary from this, is that the press is America's big example of freedom of speech and getting information out to the people.
When they open their system up so the people can comment and be heard, we soon find that there's too many jerks out there and we in fact don't want and actually may be harmed by hearing them.
What I get from that, is while you can have some widely varying degrees of opinions on things, not everybody is conducive to the process and thus needs to be excluded by virtue of the social damage they inflict.
Scribble
First Post
I think it's the accountability thing. I have no doubt that half the people making the horrible comments that make you just want to curl up and burn out your eyes wouldn't say the same things in person, or if everyone knew who they were for real.
Desdichado
Hero
It's pretty easy to just ignore comments on articles and not even acknowledge their existance, though. If it causes anyone any damage, it's kinda self-inflicted. Or--at least easily avoided.
catsclaw227
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While I am in agreement about WOTC having an open playtest for D&D Next - IMHO it's the right thing to do considering the situation - this is why I am a little nervous about it.
billd91
Not your screen monkey (he/him) 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
It's part of the burden that a free marketplace of ideas imposes - you see the bad stuff with the good and, hopefully, exercise good judgment in determining which is which.
Before the internet got so big I was really naive. I really thought that most people had some intelligence and the ignorant ones were in the minority I also thought most of my fellow Americans were decent compassionate people.
Not anymore judging from a lot of the posts I read there are a lot of really ignorant people out there. They have no basic knowledge of history, science the humanities it blows my mind.
There are also a lot of mean spirited nasty people out there far more than I thought.
I sometimes think I liked the world better when I was more naive.
Not anymore judging from a lot of the posts I read there are a lot of really ignorant people out there. They have no basic knowledge of history, science the humanities it blows my mind.
There are also a lot of mean spirited nasty people out there far more than I thought.
I sometimes think I liked the world better when I was more naive.
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