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<blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 8396945" data-attributes="member: 7023840"><p>Well, the interesting thing about all of this is that in the abundance of text that I regurgitate in my posts, I usually explain WHY I am doing something. I often provide links so people can read about the topics for themselves, as well. Not that most people bother reading either the OP or the links, but that's neither here nor there. <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=":)" /> </p><p></p><p>For example, for this topic I was reading a post by someone else that raised the issue, and it made me think about the topic some more. I find the topic interesting both because it goes to the early history of D&D (really, the proto-history) which is something I am always interested in, and it is also something that is of recent vintage (the last couple of years) that I had not seen discussed here before.</p><p></p><p>So, again, bringing up a topic is not the same as advocating for it.* Those who see it as such are just trying to internally justify their own desire to argue. If you want to argue, more power to you, but don't expect other people to want to engage with you. </p><p></p><p>*This is such a basic point it's hard to keep re-stating it. If I am on a movie discussion forum and I say, "Hey, has anyone seen the trailer for the new Wes Anderson film, <em>The French Dispatch</em>," that doesn't mean that I am advocating that Wes Anderson is the best director ever, that other directors suck, or that you should read the New Yorker. It just means that I saw something and thought it would make for an interesting conversation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snarf Zagyg, post: 8396945, member: 7023840"] Well, the interesting thing about all of this is that in the abundance of text that I regurgitate in my posts, I usually explain WHY I am doing something. I often provide links so people can read about the topics for themselves, as well. Not that most people bother reading either the OP or the links, but that's neither here nor there. :) For example, for this topic I was reading a post by someone else that raised the issue, and it made me think about the topic some more. I find the topic interesting both because it goes to the early history of D&D (really, the proto-history) which is something I am always interested in, and it is also something that is of recent vintage (the last couple of years) that I had not seen discussed here before. So, again, bringing up a topic is not the same as advocating for it.* Those who see it as such are just trying to internally justify their own desire to argue. If you want to argue, more power to you, but don't expect other people to want to engage with you. *This is such a basic point it's hard to keep re-stating it. If I am on a movie discussion forum and I say, "Hey, has anyone seen the trailer for the new Wes Anderson film, [I]The French Dispatch[/I]," that doesn't mean that I am advocating that Wes Anderson is the best director ever, that other directors suck, or that you should read the New Yorker. It just means that I saw something and thought it would make for an interesting conversation. [/QUOTE]
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