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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aesynil" data-source="post: 4103265" data-attributes="member: 40482">There will always be somebody out there who wants to be the 'rebel' and rain on everybody's parade.  He thinks he's cutting close to the truth, and avoiding all of the forced sentiment by saying what's Really going on.  We're all the masses, and he and his 'homies' are the' real geeks'.  In short, he's an idiot.  I glanced vaguely at some of his stuff; he's on his own little pedestral, trying to make himself out to look like he's a better critical thinker; and in some ways, he's got his critical thinking skills down; D&D isn't the paragon of gaming.  But he missed the point.  Gygax pioneered the field; I argue this case with Freud all the time.  Even if the stuff the man made wasn't the best, it was fresh, it was new, and it can probally be traced as the source for a great deal of what we know as gaming (Or psychology, but that's just the analogy).  i don't track the field; I just play with it.  I may be wrong.  But that's the sense I get.I like this guy's criticism of D&D; it's accurate enough, he hits some key points.  But it will always be in poor taste to attack the legacy of a man, when mourning is still quite fresh.  'Unrepetant hack.'  Right.  We should acknowledge him and his homies, because they're the 'real' geeks.  He's a writer with a power trip, making an article in poor taste.  Do what you always do with people like that.  Take an honest look at his arguements, see the strengths, see the weaknesses, understand why he believes what he does, see the ways in which he's missing the point completely, and move on.  Consider it an attack against D&D, not a deceased man.  Personally?  I stopped giving any credibility to this the moment the man wrote "The real geeks out there—my homies."  Those words right there are his pedestal.  His select group of friends know the light.  The thousands / millions of the rest of us are ignorant.  M'kay.  Do you need anything better to justify ignoring him?edit:  something in me forces me to add that there's more to that statement on Freud then I put in there, but...Let's be honest.  That would be..Sidetracking just a touch.  Anybody wanna hold a discussion on it?  I'm all there.  just...in another thread <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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