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Thanks folks. That's actually really helpful. I learned something new today and that's always a good thing.

If I don't buy the new products, how will I know what to complain about? Duh! Also, I'm back home, but my wife and daughter are still...

Say, my usage of Amazon. Well, in some ways its closer to them. Heh. I'm not even going to talk about my eating today...

Yeap, I think d20 was first and foremost built to be a Swiss army knife for power leveling fantasy. Thats is a good thing, but its also...

Took me years to internalize that (partly because of my finances). I used to buy typical Payless jobs and blow through them in...

Separating art from artist? Why they continue to play when they don't like the game is the bigger question, although that usually boils...

Maybe they still like the game and don't automatically avoid giving money to people who have products they like where they don't like...

And sometimes its being context-blind or least dim-visioned. If you come from certain backgrounds being really friggin' fussy about...

Sometimes, it is about precision - often with a disagreement about the amount of needed precision.

You know, when you're dealing with someone who's determined to not argue in good faith, you can just not engage with them. Or, heck...

The proverbial spilling a cup of coffee leading to the full breakdown in the parking lot. It wasn't the spilled coffee that got you...

Back in my RQ days a situation came up in a campaign where it turned out the local culture view of the opponents we were fighting was...

Well, that's often in part because people can't agree what immersion is. If they see what they're doing as immersion, and you don't...

Because there are some (many) games that you don't want to play in an immersive fashion. To me, those kinds of complaints feel somewhat...

Because they enjoy other kinds of immersion, or immersion isn't a priority for them at all?