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<blockquote data-quote="Set" data-source="post: 4427620" data-attributes="member: 41584"><p>You see it in political or religious discussions more often, where people have internalized beliefs that they now consider to be a part of them, and thus any attack on those beliefs is considered an attack on their worldview and their sense of self.</p><p> </p><p>But it's become increasingly common on the internet in *any* sort of disagreement. Any criticism of something (such as 4e) is taken as an attack on anyone who likes it. The suggestion that a certain playstyle doesn't suit one's preference is taken as a statement that anyone who likes that playstyle must be stupid or wrong or 'a fanboi,' while it's similarly impossible to say, 'Hey, I don't like that. I prefer this.' without being labeled a grognard or a 'hater' or a naysayer or whatever (and yes, even fascist or irrational or caveman or deranged or 'fatbeard').</p><p> </p><p>Some people like chocolate. Some people like strawberry. The chocolate lovers don't accuse the strawberry lovers of being 'haters' and the strawberry lovers don't call the chocoholics 'fanbois,' so what's the big deal?</p><p> </p><p>At the end of the day, tabletop gaming remains a small niche, and two D&D players squabbling over editions of the same darn game is like watching two entomologists get worked up over the classification of a dead bug. Ooh, nerd wars! Watch the geeks in their natural state! See the pretentious invocations of Godwin! Marvel at the Comic Book Guy and his Worst. Retcon. Ever. proclamations!</p><p> </p><p>What really burns my biscuits about the whole edition wars poop-flinging-fest is that, almost without exception, the people who fling the vilest insults would then start concern-troll threads about 'the quality of discourse on the boards has gone done because of all the negativity and name-calling!'</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Set, post: 4427620, member: 41584"] You see it in political or religious discussions more often, where people have internalized beliefs that they now consider to be a part of them, and thus any attack on those beliefs is considered an attack on their worldview and their sense of self. But it's become increasingly common on the internet in *any* sort of disagreement. Any criticism of something (such as 4e) is taken as an attack on anyone who likes it. The suggestion that a certain playstyle doesn't suit one's preference is taken as a statement that anyone who likes that playstyle must be stupid or wrong or 'a fanboi,' while it's similarly impossible to say, 'Hey, I don't like that. I prefer this.' without being labeled a grognard or a 'hater' or a naysayer or whatever (and yes, even fascist or irrational or caveman or deranged or 'fatbeard'). Some people like chocolate. Some people like strawberry. The chocolate lovers don't accuse the strawberry lovers of being 'haters' and the strawberry lovers don't call the chocoholics 'fanbois,' so what's the big deal? At the end of the day, tabletop gaming remains a small niche, and two D&D players squabbling over editions of the same darn game is like watching two entomologists get worked up over the classification of a dead bug. Ooh, nerd wars! Watch the geeks in their natural state! See the pretentious invocations of Godwin! Marvel at the Comic Book Guy and his Worst. Retcon. Ever. proclamations! What really burns my biscuits about the whole edition wars poop-flinging-fest is that, almost without exception, the people who fling the vilest insults would then start concern-troll threads about 'the quality of discourse on the boards has gone done because of all the negativity and name-calling!' [/QUOTE]
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