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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5774034" data-attributes="member: 22779">Ok, fair enough, nothing new here.  Just another Hussar rant.  But, good freaking god, it just absolutely blows my mind how petty and small minded gaming fans can be.Was looking at something unrelated on <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/" target="_blank">Breaking News and Opinion on The Huffington Post</a> and news about WOTC and the new announcement of 5e (or whatever it will be called) caught my eye.  Huffington post is a pretty widely big place to see D&D news, so, I took a look.  <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/10/dungeons-and-dragons-rema_n_1196534.html" target="_blank">Dungeons & Dragons Remake Looks To Fans For Input</a>Fluff piece, for sure.  But, at least it's news and it's pretty upbeat so, I'm happy.  Right?  Well, then I make the mistake of reading the last line:Again, this is not a problem.  So, I scroll down to see what people are saying.SECOND FREAKING COMMENT:HOLY CRAP!  Are you freaking kidding me?  D&D gets a nice mainstream, upbeat news story and people are crapping on editions?  Really?  What kind of mental process do you have to go through to think that edition war crap belongs in this kind of place.  Considering you have posts like the following:See, right there, Cranmer is the kind of people we WANT TO REACH OUT TO!  He has no idea that there is still a TTRPG out there and most likely couldn't give two <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=":)" /><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=":)" /><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=":)" /><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=":)" /><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=":)" /> about edition.  The community is talking all the time about how gaming is dying, about how we're losing players to video games and how gaming will go the way of model trains - an aging group of hobbyists slowly dying and then fading away.Yet, when we get a chance to reach out to people, wingnuts like this chump can't keep their mouth shut long enough to get a positive message across.  Do me a favor.  STOP HELPING THE HOBBY.  If you are doing things like this, YOU, YOU PERSONALLY, are the problem.  You are the reason it's hard to find other gamers.  You are the one giving the rest of us a bad reputation.  For the love all little fishies, PLEASE STOP!<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/rant.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rant:" title="Rant    :rant:" data-shortname=":rant:" /><img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/rant.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rant:" title="Rant    :rant:" data-shortname=":rant:" /><img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/rant.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rant:" title="Rant    :rant:" data-shortname=":rant:" /></blockquote>

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