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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kookalouris" data-source="post: 4265764" data-attributes="member: 23872">After internal debate, I decided to post this...David, DL;I don't know either of you very well (and what I do know is filtered through the internet)  and so I cannot speak for either of you.But I can speak for myself.The frustration I sense between you two is beginning to affect my enjoyment of the game.It may be that the disagreements between you two are fundamentally unresolvable and I can understand that.  But it would be a shame and to the game's detriment if the disagreements were ultimately resolvable but were not resolved because of miscommunication.So I ask that each of you preview (and then RE-view <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=":)" /> ) your posts in the worst possible light before you send them.  As you know, there are no non-verbal tones or gentle vocal inflection to soften the cold text.In addition, please interpret other posts in the best possible light.  Remember anger and resentment can so easily be undeniably expressed that an unclear post is probably the most well-meant of all possible interpretations.Rather than dwell on past actions (or possibly the unprovable motives behind them), we might phrase suggestions in the form of "In the future, maybe we could do this instead of that (for one possible example)."I hope everyone here understands what I am trying to achieve in this post.  In my earnestness to get my point across, I may have verged on insulting patronization and presumption.  If so, I apologize for not having the scapel-edged communication skills I feel the game needs right now.Remember frustration is merely enthusiasm misdirected.  Take it from a GM who has had games die of apathy, I envy the arguments I'm seeing.  If all this post does is to aim some of that frustration my way, even that will be something.But I hope this post does at least a little more than that.More than ever, feedback is welcome.Gerry</blockquote>

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