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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7228001" data-attributes="member: 996">Took longer than I thought it would.IDK, I empathize with the OP's sentiment, because that was how I felt about the potential of RPGs when I was first getting really enthused about the hobby.&nbsp; It's not groundless, either, RP is used in therapy to try to understand where other people are coming from, for instance, and we've heard testimonials on here from people who did engage in some life-changing self-exploration/discovery through the context of RPing.&nbsp;&nbsp; But, yes, Rem, it's true:&nbsp; that we're a tiny niche hobby and that, on the current big political issues of the day we're lagging the mainstream rather than driving it.&nbsp; The potential, if it's real, simply hasn't been realized, even after 40 years.&nbsp; We can't even be inclusive within our own esoteric little sphere (people get told &quot;go play that other ed/game&quot; all the time).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7228001, member: 996"] Took longer than I thought it would. IDK, I empathize with the OP's sentiment, because that was how I felt about the potential of RPGs when I was first getting really enthused about the hobby. It's not groundless, either, RP is used in therapy to try to understand where other people are coming from, for instance, and we've heard testimonials on here from people who did engage in some life-changing self-exploration/discovery through the context of RPing. But, yes, Rem, it's true: that we're a tiny niche hobby and that, on the current big political issues of the day we're lagging the mainstream rather than driving it. The potential, if it's real, simply hasn't been realized, even after 40 years. We can't even be inclusive within our own esoteric little sphere (people get told "go play that other ed/game" all the time). [/QUOTE]

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