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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7895485" data-attributes="member: 4937">To some extent it might have been people wanting to feel superior to other people. But it also might be people who felt with some cause that his poor quality costume was harming their enjoyment and immersion in the shared imaginary space they'd worked so hard to construct. Have you ever had that friend, even someone you like, whom you sometimes excluded from certain social functions because their presence just made things a little less fun? Like you'd be happy to RP with them most times, but you'd not invite them on a double date? Let's put it in a different context when it comes to &quot;paying your dues&quot;. Suppose I went down to the local fantasy gaming store for the first time, and I say these guys playing this amazing game with these hand painted models and vast armies - for example Warhammer 40K. It was like the coolest thing I had ever seen, but wow did it look like it took a lot of money to buy and paint all those miniatures. And imagine that I decided that I just couldn't afford all that, and so instead I took some 3x5 note cards and a stencil and I carefully lettered all the 3x5 note cards with the units I wanted to own, and the next week I took them down to the store with the intention of participating in the monthly Warhammer 40K tournament. Yay, me! Then those rude gatekeepers refused to let me play and even laughed at me with my stack of 3x5 note cards.Or yeah, same thing but it's a stack of make homemade magic cards where I've hand lettered four of them with the words &quot;Black Lotus&quot;.In both cases, there might be some participants there whose self-valuation was based on their expensive toys, but even then there would still be a lot of very good reasons why you don't just show up uninvited, unasked, with no permission to that sort of thing with hand made alternative game pieces expecting full acceptance for your action.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7895485, member: 4937"] To some extent it might have been people wanting to feel superior to other people. But it also might be people who felt with some cause that his poor quality costume was harming their enjoyment and immersion in the shared imaginary space they'd worked so hard to construct. Have you ever had that friend, even someone you like, whom you sometimes excluded from certain social functions because their presence just made things a little less fun? Like you'd be happy to RP with them most times, but you'd not invite them on a double date? Let's put it in a different context when it comes to "paying your dues". Suppose I went down to the local fantasy gaming store for the first time, and I say these guys playing this amazing game with these hand painted models and vast armies - for example Warhammer 40K. It was like the coolest thing I had ever seen, but wow did it look like it took a lot of money to buy and paint all those miniatures. And imagine that I decided that I just couldn't afford all that, and so instead I took some 3x5 note cards and a stencil and I carefully lettered all the 3x5 note cards with the units I wanted to own, and the next week I took them down to the store with the intention of participating in the monthly Warhammer 40K tournament. Yay, me! Then those rude gatekeepers refused to let me play and even laughed at me with my stack of 3x5 note cards. Or yeah, same thing but it's a stack of make homemade magic cards where I've hand lettered four of them with the words "Black Lotus". In both cases, there might be some participants there whose self-valuation was based on their expensive toys, but even then there would still be a lot of very good reasons why you don't just show up uninvited, unasked, with no permission to that sort of thing with hand made alternative game pieces expecting full acceptance for your action. [/QUOTE]

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