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<blockquote data-quote="Ry" data-source="post: 3590021" data-attributes="member: 8314">Come on, mang... I thought we were trying not to antagonize, or generalize about other people.How about a friendly analogy?Lets say me and my roleplaying group always order pizza from Pizza Ditch.&nbsp; If I, and my friends, and my group all consistently get stomach cramps eating (admittedly delicious) Pizza Ditch pizza, I'd conclude that there's something wrong with that pizza.Now, to take it a step further, imagine there's a place online, a forum for those who enjoy Pizza in your town, where Pizza Ditch is clearly the dominant franchise.&nbsp; You're going to of course have lots of discussion about pizza - both likes and dislikes.&nbsp; But most of those discussions will come back to the first, and still the biggest, pizza place in town - Pizza Ditch.Some will love Pizza Ditch pizza just as it is - among those you'll see people who bear their stomach cramps with pride, others of a hardier constitution will report never having them.&nbsp; Still others will hearken back to the Pizza Ditch of yesteryear, claiming that there were no cramps, better toppings, and the delivery girl was smoking hot.&nbsp; But at the end of the day, if someone came to this forum and said &quot;That's it, I'm done with Pizza Ditch.&nbsp; I can't stand the cramping.&nbsp; I want delicious pizza but this is just too high a price.&quot;&nbsp; I'd say that they're just venting a very natural frustration in the appropriate place.As a pizza-lover in the same town, I welcome their discussion.&nbsp; On the one hand, they might just need to eat slower, and I could point that out.&nbsp;&nbsp; On the other, the discussion might hit topics of baking that allow me to enjoy my own pizza designed exactly to my personal culinary and gastro-intestinal ideal.Thus endeth the analogy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ry, post: 3590021, member: 8314"] Come on, mang... I thought we were trying not to antagonize, or generalize about other people. How about a friendly analogy? Lets say me and my roleplaying group always order pizza from Pizza Ditch. If I, and my friends, and my group all consistently get stomach cramps eating (admittedly delicious) Pizza Ditch pizza, I'd conclude that there's something wrong with that pizza. Now, to take it a step further, imagine there's a place online, a forum for those who enjoy Pizza in your town, where Pizza Ditch is clearly the dominant franchise. You're going to of course have lots of discussion about pizza - both likes and dislikes. But most of those discussions will come back to the first, and still the biggest, pizza place in town - Pizza Ditch. Some will love Pizza Ditch pizza just as it is - among those you'll see people who bear their stomach cramps with pride, others of a hardier constitution will report never having them. Still others will hearken back to the Pizza Ditch of yesteryear, claiming that there were no cramps, better toppings, and the delivery girl was [I]smoking hot[/I]. But at the end of the day, if someone came to this forum and said "That's it, I'm done with Pizza Ditch. I can't stand the cramping. I want delicious pizza but this is just [I]too high a price[/I]." I'd say that they're just venting a very natural frustration in the appropriate place. As a pizza-lover in the same town, I welcome their discussion. On the one hand, they might just need to eat slower, and I could point that out. On the other, the discussion might hit topics of baking that allow me to enjoy my own pizza designed exactly to my personal culinary and gastro-intestinal ideal. Thus endeth the analogy. [/QUOTE]

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