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For some people, the game (insert name), has become part of their ego. A foundation moment in their lives. If you criticize it, you...

Well, there's always the case of psychological scar tissue, which has a lot of impacts in human relations in general, and certainly...

Though that doesn't technically have to be true; you can theoretically have lower level boss fights where the boss just doesn't have...

I respect the attempt to do something different there, but the extreme dissonance between the mechanical focus at one end and the almost...

While I stand by my position that everyone at a given table should take the game they're playing roughly equally seriously, I don't...

It's the part of the tariffs that nobody wants to talk about. Prices are up, sales are down, and Cost Recovery is the catchphrase in...

I suspect their first example was not so much a failure to navigate as a decision to plow on through without care.

It's possible to sincerely apologize for, say, hurting someone's feelings, while also refusing to recant the core of what you said. This...

Yeah, under some circumstances its impossible to be critical of certain things without some people taking it personally. If you're...

Yeah, that one just adds an additional layer of insult to the problem.

I see it more as a passive-aggressive way of doubling-down; cf. "I'm sorry you feel that way." I have a specific current example but...

Its mostly only pronounced in level-based games, because people are fixated on starting at 1st level. Point distribution games and...

Gotcha. Yeap, what they really meant is if you are lucky and survive to a level high enough, your character can be like Conan. You have...

This is always the issue with simpler games: is the level of detail actually adequate for what you're trying to do with it? For many...

I don't but when something becomes a literal survival skill, I could see how it would be difficult to just turn it off.