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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EricNoah" data-source="post: 825646" data-attributes="member: 4">Ooh, found a good quote about snobbery..."The snob's error is to put good taste before a good heart." *That* I see all the time -- and not just here, and not just related to RPGing.  Some people will prefer to look clever than to be perceived as nice.  This reminds me of a class I took recently.  One topic was human needs.  We all, according to one model, need Love (acceptance) and Power (including being seen as competent) and Freedom and Fun and a few other things.  But people value these different needs in different ways.  I might have a stronger need to feel competent than loved.  So I will use behaviors that will meet my needs.  My behaviors could be effective (my need is met, and at the very least I don't interfere with someone else's life), or they could be ineffective (my need is met in the short term, but goes unmet in the long run, plus I interfere with someone's life).  I would hazzard a guess that a lot of RPG players have a high need to feel competent as compared to some of the other needs.  Some will react with their razor-sharp wits to meet that need, regardless of whether that wit has been turned against someone else.  Ah, look at me, I'm babbling!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" /></blockquote>

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