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Message: <blockquote data-quote="grodog" data-source="post: 4898451" data-attributes="member: 1613">Long-winded, perhaps? <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/glasses.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt="B-)" title="Glasses    B-)" data-shortname="B-)" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />Not having read (m)any of your posts before, I didn't want to judge you, per se:  I really was trying to look at the language without implying personal criticism.  I may not have suceeded, however <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/ponder.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":hmm:" title="Hmmm    :hmm:" data-shortname=":hmm:" />Yes, I haven't had a chance to reply to your reply to PC yet, but I wanted to say that I didn't think that you were necessarily using the term negatively, but that I think the term itself carries strong negative connotations, and that reading some of the quasi-kneejerk responses in the discussion seemed to reinforce that (for me, at least).  I think your clarifications in your response to PC seem spot-on to me, and hopefully folks will be able to step back and look at the term a little more objectively.  Perhaps.In any event, I'm curious now about your close linking of Romanticism with nostalgia, in terms of gaming.  (We can all wax poetic about Wordsworth and Keats and childhoods lost some other time <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ):  can you elaborate more on that please?  I can buy the linking of nostalgia and Romanticism on some levels, but I'm not sure then how aspects of Romanticism/nostalgia fit into the gaming.</blockquote>

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