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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 9554910" data-attributes="member: 22779">That is most certainly not the definition of an apologist.&nbsp; An apologist is someone who will defend the actions of someone or something that is obviously in the wrong.&nbsp; The fact that people accuse him of being an apologist just shows how one sided the discussion actually is.&nbsp; Simply defending something controversial isn't being an apologist, otherwise, virtually everyone is an apologist and the word has no meaning.&nbsp; There are MANY examples of apologists in the world that cannot be talked about here because of the no Politics rules.&nbsp; But, saying that what WotC has done over the past couple of years doesn't amount to a whole lot of much and certainly not to the degree of opprobrium and outrage that you routinely see on things like Youtube or X is hardly being an apologist.&nbsp; The grist for the outrage machine driving the algorithm is a much larger problem AFAIC.&nbsp; When a minor paragraph in a thousand page history book gets highlighted by people like Elon Musk as an example of WotC destroying the hobby and hating fans, I think that's a much larger issue than not being terribly fussed that a handful of youtubers got minorly inconvenienced for blatantly violating fair use.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 9554910, member: 22779"] That is most certainly not the definition of an apologist. An apologist is someone who will defend the actions of someone or something that is obviously in the wrong. The fact that people accuse him of being an apologist just shows how one sided the discussion actually is. Simply defending something controversial isn't being an apologist, otherwise, virtually everyone is an apologist and the word has no meaning. There are MANY examples of apologists in the world that cannot be talked about here because of the no Politics rules. But, saying that what WotC has done over the past couple of years doesn't amount to a whole lot of much and certainly not to the degree of opprobrium and outrage that you routinely see on things like Youtube or X is hardly being an apologist. The grist for the outrage machine driving the algorithm is a much larger problem AFAIC. When a minor paragraph in a thousand page history book gets highlighted by people like Elon Musk as an example of WotC destroying the hobby and hating fans, I think that's a much larger issue than not being terribly fussed that a handful of youtubers got minorly inconvenienced for blatantly violating fair use. [/QUOTE]

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