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I don’t know. Doesn’t seem like a great plan. The fact that Elon Musk and I might like the same toppings on our pizza isn’t going to to stop me from being horrified by his general level of toxicity. In fact, I’d say that the tendency to force people into seeing others as only Good or Evil...

So that was his ingenious plan? Say something relatable about video games, so that a bunch of people on an elf-game board will say he’s not a monster for not wanting to commit video game violence (while at the same time saying he is a monster for all the real monstrous things he does)? Now...

Sure, I can probably think of a bunch of ridiculous things someone could say that would make me laugh. Saying they don’t like pretending to commit real world crimes in a video game isn’t anywhere close.

Well, if it involves mocking and belittling people for something ridiculous like their food preferences, then yeah, I’m glad to have missed it.

Yeah, that would bother me too (I didn’t see that). I don’t know, it just feels like something I complain about right-wing pundits doing. Finding some little thing that their opponents have said, and trying to blow it all out of proportion. So I’d feel hypocritical not to push back if I see...

Yeah, I could (and should have just ignored it). But I guess as a 52 year old gamer who likes story-based fps games, but didn’t play GTA5, seeing someone laughed at as a hypocrite for claiming they were a 52 year old gamer who likes story-based fps games, but didn’t play GTA5 rubbed me the...

I really don’t see the lack of Attunement or Slot info on the sheet as an attack on magic items. In fact, I would say it makes it easier to just chuck any magic item limits if that’s what a DM wants. I can’t see how it possibly could be a roadblock to stop a DM from using all the magic items...

But again, he called out Saints Row 4, which is the ‘President fighting aliens in a weird simulation’, if I recall correctly. It may have the same style of play as GTA, but I have no problem understanding how people could be fine with a fictitious setting like that, but be against real-world...

Yeah, I’m pretty sure avoiding the magic item Christmas Tree effect was a huge selling point for 5e. They went out of their way to avoid the number stacking craziness of the 3e era. It sure as heck was a selling point for me and my group, who were sick to death of the magic weapon treadmill...

Weird. Saying he’s a long term gamer who likes Mass Effect in no way implies he like earlier GTA games. I also like fps games with stories, and wouldn’t go near GTA. Saints Row 4 is a little more confusing, but isn’t that the one that is highly unrealistic? I mean, the player is the...

How is that any more passive-aggressive (which is an odd take to begin with) than saying you want all those additions to the character sheet and more robust rules because that’s your preferred game? They aren’t going to write rules and subsystems that they think the majority of people will...

Yeah, like I would totally tell someone I didn’t buy GTA5 due to the violence and such. I wouldn’t feel the need to specify it was also the reason I didn’t buy any of the other ones as well. I would assume it was, well, assumed. Like when Avengers came out, and someone told me they didn’t go...

Anecdote, not data, but in my 40+ years playing, I don’t think I’ve ever been in a campaign where we cared about encumbrance. I know we never asked where a specific item was being carried. At most, it was lip service, in that the only time it came up was when someone was egregious about it...

Holga: "So, they did become a 4eer..." :)

Yeah, while it might be that it was supposed to run before, it didn’t. And there was nothing in either one to indicate that there was any connection, no matter what order they ran in. If they wanted to show them out of order, they at the very least needed to give us some indication of that...

Of course, on these very boards we had a huge thread at one point by people feeling personally attacked by the mere existence of content warning on older content. So it seems even that is a bridge too far for some folks.

The fact that you think Disney’s problems are due to inclusive movies, I’m not sure there’s much more to say. Disney’s problems are due to the fact they’ve gotten sloppy and are putting out badly written movies. Not because there are too many women, or diverse casting, or lack of strong...

Again, the fact that a majority is fine with something doesn't make it right.

Claiming it's only a 'handful of people on Twitter' is an attempt to marginalize viewpoints of people who were already bring marginalized. "Why make changes when the majority (ie me) are perfectly happy bring catered to?"

Tradition is all well and good. But it is a lousy reason not to make changes. Too many people throughout history have attempted to hold onto horrible things in the name of tradition. Women can't vote! It's against Tradition! Of course those people aren't allowed to eat in the same diner...