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Mod Note: Some of you read like you are purposely trying to troll folks with stuff you know they'll respond to as kinda racist. You are hereby warned - keep it up, and you'll be removed from the discussion not for being racist, but for picking fights.

Given how autocorrect works, yeah.

There are three kinds of arguments: 1) Wrong 2) Right 3) Arguments that, due to lack of informatin or poor formation, are not persuasive. I mean, you yourself then go ahead and fill out his argument with four more examples, and more complete discussion of the market at hand. If that's called...

Yeah, but I said none of those things. I didn't even suggest any such thing. I said, I, personally and specifically, didn't find it persuasive. I spoke for not a single person other than myself. That should be perfectly legal and inoffensive.

Art can be offensive, and effective. But there's no "should" about it. There are other approaches to art, that are also perfectly valid.

Mod note: Your choice matters too, Paul. Your choice here seems to say, "You will use MY preferred language, or I will consider you a liar". That's not how good communication works. More importantly for you at this moment, that's not how these boards work. Your imperiousness is not...

Mod note: I say, again, real-world religion is not a topic for conversation on this site. Please stop.

That's the other side of the coin from this situation, so not really relevant. I don't really find the repeated reference to another application that I have never heard of to be persuasive, sorry. I do not argue that WotC is good at software development. They generally aren't. I am pleasantly...

Mod note: The rules are: if you have an issue with moderation, you take it to PM with one of the mods. Breaking the rules to argue that you weren't breaking the rules is not persuasive.

If you try too hard to offend nobody, you will also likely please nobody. Content that takes no stands also provokes no thought, and no passion. As others have noted, any time you risk losing customers who disagree with you, you stand to gain customers who agree with you.

Fine, let me put it in D&D terms. If one ideology is Lawful Evil, and it is opposed by a Chaotic Evil ideology, being neutral between them still leaves you Evil.

Note I mentioned strength AND mercy. Frodo is strong enough to get it most of the way. And a good enough person to have a friend like Sam, to help him go the rest. And yes, he fails at the end, but Frodo's mercy when tempted to get rid of a threat is what ultimately left Gollum alive, to play...

That's based on an assumption that the costs and value were knowable before the project began, which is not generally true.

When the world contains multiple, sometimes mutually exclusive ideologies, that may not be possible. Nor may it be desirable, or moral/ethical to remain neutral - while D&D started with this tidy idea that ideologies square off over a neutral center, reality is not a block of nine alignments.

On the other hand, there's a lot to be said of the business side realizing that Maps was covering the need, and stopping work on the stuff nobody really wanted.

It is also real-world politics, and so not really something we can discuss here.

Yes, and maybe that's further indicative of the pattern. Merry and Pippin are the ones with less sense, and end up hanging around with the royalty, while Sam and Frodo are the ones with the strength to carry the One Ring to Mount Doom, and the mercy to let Gollum live.

They are common, in the sense that matters in the Tolkien context - they are not nobility, or even leaders in their communities. Aragorn, Boromir, Faramir, Theoden, Eomer, Denethor - are all holders of hereditary leadership titles. Legolas is the son of the King of the Mirkwood Elves. Gimli...

Deciding for other people why the are okay with something (as in, "because fantasy") is rude, and apt to be incorrect. And annoying. In reality, chimpanzee muscle fibers are notably more powerful than human, and chimps regularly outperform humans in pulling and jumping. That a smaller frame...

I'm not sure the text actually bears that out. There are problems in Tolkien's world, yes. But most of the folks in it are not yet in a state of hopelessness and greed and evil - the Dark Lord hasn't yet spread across the land. The people have not yet given in to despair. He may call it...