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Yes. And thus you can play it safe and continue to appeal to your established market, or you can take a risk and try to broaden your appeal.

Indeed. Too many people get upset because something they don't like is popular.

So you might say that, at the time, that kind of art had mass appeal in the market.

Which many people love. Strange idea to decry something because it has "mass appeal." That means huge numbers of people like it. Which in turn means huge numbers of people being happy.

Very much the opposite.

I suspect the response was rhetorical, in response to your statement that a Vulcan would persecute someone for not being logical.

You keep using these words. You could just as easily say Conan-style sexist cheesecake is safe because you know there's a large fan base of people who like that kind of art. And the inclusiveness that is more characteristic of recent D&D art always raises a furore among a certain segment of the...

The poster in question made explicit One True Way arguments, so clarifying that it's subjective is reasonable in that context. You can feel they're needless all you like. Doesn't change the fact that many people prefer the "needless" remakes.

When the comment you're responding to was itself responding to someone claiming that it is a waste of space - full stop - this clarification is unnecessary. The entire point of the post you're responding to is that there is disagreement on the point, that it varies from person to person.

It doesn't "mostly" document. It's purely documentary. It's why they have to be updated as language evolves. And given that the dictionary quoted included both definitions in this case, saying that only one is the proper one to use is silly. People DO use it in both ways. If you assume they are...

Cool. But that ain't how language works. The dictionary does not dictate how people use words.

Yeah, I'm familiar with Maude. But Maude did not live with Sofia, Blanche and Rose.

There are many retcons in Burton's Batman, depending on what you consider to be "original" Batman. And the "needless" is purely subjective.

Many people who consume RPG books, including D&D, would strongly disagree with this. Give me Elmore and Easley art all day long.

So anyone who plays D&D differently than you is doing it wrong ("needs an intervention") or has been inculcated into cultish thought ("gotten away from Jack Chick and his insanity"). It's surprising that it has taken this long for you to learn that many people play D&D differently than you do...

Yes, to you. This does not apply to everyone. So unless you believe that everyone should approach it the way you do or did (which I would advise against) this is irrelevant, because you're not the only one the game wants to appeal to.

So very common when dealing with representation in media. "Just cast the best actor" quickly becomes "why would you cast that kind of actor" when it's a kind they don't like.

He would have done what now? By 'persecuted' do you mean 'attempted to explain the flaws in their thinking'?

You shouldn't try to speak for gamerdom as a whole, and the assertion that they can "only imagine simulation" is baseless and condescending.

Dorothy. Her name was Dorothy.