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Mod Note: We all feel uncomfortable now because you've stepped over into anti-inclusive, borderline political argument. This is your 11th warning point. We gave you a bunch of leeway early on due to the language barrier, but that was years ago. There are only so many times you can step over...

I do a certain amount of voice acting, both when I play and when I GM. As you note, it is good to differentiate between when the character is speaking, and when the player is. It's also kind of fun, even if my vocal stylings aren't professional-quality. Just this summer, I was in a...

That does happen, yes. But that's a human life thing. It isn't the game's fault, or its responsibility to fix.

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.