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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Eternal GM" data-source="post: 4101696" data-attributes="member: 52760">Uh wow...I get that this is the internet and that people can argue the toss on it.  And of course having your own website allows you to state opinion as fact, and indeed bait people into arguments in your response column so you can sound a smartarse with calculated replies...  All this is fine.But...  What's this guy's problem exactly?Lifestyle or activity...  Whuh?  So he's got issues with the way gamers define themselves as 'geek gamers' or something?  And that we chose to acknowledge the passing of one of our hobby's few celebrity founders on the 'net...  Y'know, on sites dedicated to that self same hobby, or on personal blogs where we muse and express our thoughts...  This is all bad somehow?I don't get it.  Beyond drawing attention to himself and his site (the plan?) this just comes off sounding wrong.  I mean...  How many gamers does Snyder think have erected shrines to Gary?  Or done other stupid 'geeky' stuff because he died?I'm going to go out on a limb and say that most people who are in the hobby went "Gary Gygax died?  Oh crap, that sucks..." and then went on to talk over some old D&D sessions with rose-tinted glasses with someone else, and then get on with their lives like everyone does.  Maybe old edition sessions have been run in honour of Gary in place of normal weekly sessions...  And a few websites have put up a tasteful little remembrance banner.Where is the bad in all this?  How does this bring down the hobby? (Sorry, lifestyle or activity!)Heh, I'll end here, everything else I've typed from this point on comes across as too aggressive or vitriolic, so I'll leave it there.</blockquote>

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