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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 9486367" data-attributes="member: 22779">But, The Hunger Games are only popular because of marketing.  The quality of the story, writing or anything else is secondary at best because people are apparently incapable of understanding that the thing they like isn't very good, but, rather, they are just being led by the nose to liking something inferior.  If only we would accept that The Hunger Games is an inferior product, we could then improve on it and sell even more.Just like those fifteen thousand Tolkien lookalikes did so much better than Tolkien.  Because, obviously, Tolkien is only popular because of marketing.  And that Shakespeare guy?  Whoosh.  Fantastic marketing of mediocre work.  If only they'd listen to me, Romeo and Juliet would be so much better.<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937.png" title="Person shrugging    :person_shrugging:" data-shortname=":person_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />Meh, I've been playing the "inferior game" since day 1.  Everyone has told me how crap D&D is and that Game X is just so much better and does things so much better.  RIFTS is better.  Warhammer is better.  Vampire is better.  GURPS is the superior game.  So on and so forth.  If only people weren't so stuck on D&D...Forty years and counting now for me.  <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937.png" title="Person shrugging    :person_shrugging:" data-shortname=":person_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />Like I've been saying for a while now.  If people would stick to only speaking for themselves and stop trying to speak for the "hobby", a lot of these conversations would be a thousand times more productive.  I mean, sure, I think 5e D&D is too high magic.  I would very much like some dials that I could turn to turn down the magic level.  But, I'm not going to pretend that my low magic D&D is somehow the game that WotC should be producing and if only they'd do that, then we'd see a golden age of gaming that makes right now look like nothing.  <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937.png" title="Person shrugging    :person_shrugging:" data-shortname=":person_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /></blockquote>

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