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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 5222603" data-attributes="member: 2205">Or... it could have just not been seen as tyrannical in the first place.  Does it really need to be explicitly stated that, "Hey, these examples are just examples.  Clearly different people have different tastes, and some people may enjoy different things more than others."  I kinda thought that wasn't said, because it goes without saying.  It shouldn't need to be said.Melan's screed, in that context, comes across as little more than, "ZOMG, they didn't specifically call out my tastes as potentially fun to some people!  Help!  Help!  I'm being repressed!"  Classic case of bruised ego.  "Why won't WotC acknowledge me and my tastes already?"Common sense would indicate that it's much more likely that they just couldn't cover all tastes, so they picked a few examples that they thought to be most common.  Also, the idea of it being "tyrannical" if your tastes get left behind by the mainstream is just silly anyway.  I mean, I could go on and on about the tyranny of fun in the RIAA who've been trying to promote pop music like Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and Taylor Swift on me, rather than acknowledging that Depeche Mode circa 1986-7 or so was clearly the high point of Western pop music, and the more mainstream pop music deviates from that, the more they are contributing to the death of Western civilization, bad music in general, and the death of the entire musical industry.  But I don't; I just listen to older music, and underground music that's more to my taste.  If I were to seriously make that rant, people in general would just think I was an idiot.Why that same rant applied to gaming is taken seriously by anyone is beyond me.  I'd like to think that there's some interesting or valid points in there, but I just don't see them.  All I see is a bunch of insane hyperbole that amounts to, "I don't like this game, and it doesn't cater to my tastes as well as some other, past games have done.  People who like this game are bad people, and shouldn't be allowed to game."</blockquote>

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