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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9238769" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>Your comment brings up a very cogent point that I think can be extended a bit to help illustrate something that I think we should remain reminded of.</p><p></p><p>Indeed Hasbro does not care about "us" (the gaming populace) as individuals or people because as you rightly point out. Hasbro is a company/corporation (and a large one at that). An inhuman corp doesn't care about humans because the entity itself isn't human. And when we talk about "Hasbro"... we always think of Hasbro in that term- an inhuman and unfeeling entity with its own concerns-- an entity that indeed wouldn't care about "Ennie Awards" (or things like that) because awards are from humans recognizing other humans.</p><p></p><p>But I do think it is also important to remind ourselves on occasion that there are indeed humans <em>within</em> that inhuman entity of a corporation, and that we have to be careful not to mistakenly place our disdain for that entity onto those humans within it. Hasbro the Corporation doesn't care about receiving any Ennie Awards... but I'm pretty sure Christopher Perkins certainly appreciates it when a product he worked on is given a Gold. Indeed I expect all the individual humans within Hasbro that have an active hand in producing Dungeons & Dragons content care about not only the Dungeons & Dragons game, but also the community that surrounds it, including all of the d50 / "5E Extended Universe" products that are made by people who love the games and community as well.</p><p></p><p>It can sometimes be hard to remember that when (general) you are royally pissed off at the inhuman entity that controls the Dungeons & Dragons game and you spit fire at it, some of that fire is hitting the actual humans responsible for the game you proclaim to care about. So we should all work extra dilligently to make sure our aim doesn't spray too far and hit the people who don't actually deserve the fire.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 9238769, member: 7006"] Your comment brings up a very cogent point that I think can be extended a bit to help illustrate something that I think we should remain reminded of. Indeed Hasbro does not care about "us" (the gaming populace) as individuals or people because as you rightly point out. Hasbro is a company/corporation (and a large one at that). An inhuman corp doesn't care about humans because the entity itself isn't human. And when we talk about "Hasbro"... we always think of Hasbro in that term- an inhuman and unfeeling entity with its own concerns-- an entity that indeed wouldn't care about "Ennie Awards" (or things like that) because awards are from humans recognizing other humans. But I do think it is also important to remind ourselves on occasion that there are indeed humans [I]within[/I] that inhuman entity of a corporation, and that we have to be careful not to mistakenly place our disdain for that entity onto those humans within it. Hasbro the Corporation doesn't care about receiving any Ennie Awards... but I'm pretty sure Christopher Perkins certainly appreciates it when a product he worked on is given a Gold. Indeed I expect all the individual humans within Hasbro that have an active hand in producing Dungeons & Dragons content care about not only the Dungeons & Dragons game, but also the community that surrounds it, including all of the d50 / "5E Extended Universe" products that are made by people who love the games and community as well. It can sometimes be hard to remember that when (general) you are royally pissed off at the inhuman entity that controls the Dungeons & Dragons game and you spit fire at it, some of that fire is hitting the actual humans responsible for the game you proclaim to care about. So we should all work extra dilligently to make sure our aim doesn't spray too far and hit the people who don't actually deserve the fire. [/QUOTE]
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