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A GMing telling the players about the gameworld is not like real life
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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 7559527" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>I think your failing to see how some people see that interrogation, when directed at their own posts (particularly when it questions their own assertions about what they like) as hostile. I am not anti-intellectual. But I am anti-elitism and arrogance. And I think, whether it is intended or not, a lot of the ways people are talking about gaming preferences here, come across as arrogant and dismissive. And I am not sure it is warranted. Intellectualism is good, but I don't think simply using jargon-y language or drawing on various online gaming theories makes on intellectual. And if one is intellectual, using that knowledge to humiliate other people (and I think a lot of posters are being humiliated by this process), is something I don't think you should be doing. If you want to interrogate a concept fine, but do understand that you are dealing with other people here, and it is insulting to be told you really don't understand your own preferences (especially when the people asserting that, are just asserting it without really providing any kind of evidence at all).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 7559527, member: 85555"] I think your failing to see how some people see that interrogation, when directed at their own posts (particularly when it questions their own assertions about what they like) as hostile. I am not anti-intellectual. But I am anti-elitism and arrogance. And I think, whether it is intended or not, a lot of the ways people are talking about gaming preferences here, come across as arrogant and dismissive. And I am not sure it is warranted. Intellectualism is good, but I don't think simply using jargon-y language or drawing on various online gaming theories makes on intellectual. And if one is intellectual, using that knowledge to humiliate other people (and I think a lot of posters are being humiliated by this process), is something I don't think you should be doing. If you want to interrogate a concept fine, but do understand that you are dealing with other people here, and it is insulting to be told you really don't understand your own preferences (especially when the people asserting that, are just asserting it without really providing any kind of evidence at all). [/QUOTE]
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