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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 1153786" data-attributes="member: 158">Gamers are a strange bunch.Even on boards with more open moderation, we'll chastize one another, and call each other names and insults just because of a difference in styles or game systems -- and then we'll turn right around and offer each other 15 tips on how to be a better GM, or the best place to go buy miniatures, or what the best source for miniatures paints is.We'll offer things for free, even things that aren't ours to offer <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> and we'll get outraged when our hobby costs people more than we think it should.Conversely, when someone outside the hobby insults one of our number or the hobby in general, we band together like a pack of inch-high wolverines, and nip the flesh off the hand doing the condescending.On these boards in particular, I stay and don't range very far because many places tolerate merciless verbal abuse of its members one toward another, and because of the community support rarely found anywhere else. Maybe I don't lurk enough elsewhere, but I just don't see threads on many gaming forums wishing one another happy birthday, or healthy pregnancies, or sharing health concerns. It's a "family" feel that fosters the ability to share everything from pottery glaze recipes and food recipes, to unofficial legal counsel, and this is what the boards alsih2o refers to likely lacks; the familial sense shared here.I'll quit before I break through the soapbox I'm standing on, but one of these days, I feel like taking a prose poll on the types of professions found here. It feels like we have members from Aeronautical Technicians to Zookeepers around here! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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