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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 2454143" data-attributes="member: 99">I've been gaming for almost exactly as long as you have, fusangite.  And I think that has absolutely NOTHING to do with the issue.  It doesn't matter if mythusmage has been playing for a week or a century, his comments have reeked of "The one true way to game is MINE." and that is patently false.For the last couple weeks he has posted thread after thread that have titles that sound like platitudes carved in stone and sent down from his own personal mountain.  He's not breaking any rules and I'm a big believer in the whole "If you don't like it then don't read it.  But don't crap in the thread." philosophy.  And that's why I didn't post in any of them.I thought that the conversation in the thread similar to this one started interesting but quickly devolved into mythusmage telling anybody who tried to explain their answer that they were going off topic (as if going off topic is somehow a sin that never happens around here anyway).  That's why I didn't post in that one and why I DID post in this one.Historically, I have no reason not to like mythusmage.  He seems a decent fellow in general and I tracked no particular trend in his posts.  But ever since he appeared in this thread he has done nothing but give backhanded insults to those who do not embrace his style of play.  He has implied that people (and GM's in particular) who don't thrust themselves fully into the role they are playing are simply insecure.  And they're probably insecure because the GM isn't providing a "safe environment where the players can relax".  And they're probably also insecure because they're not good at it and so they need to practice.  That's condescending enough to earn an eye roll from me but sometimes people post in a manner where there is an unspoken assumption that you are trying to achieve a certain style of play.  They mean, "(If you want to improve the manner in which your group does X then)  You need to focus on doing Y." but they only post that last part.  The part that irks me is when it is specifically pointed out that many of us just don't PREFER to play in the manner that mythusmage suggests and his response is essentially, "Well you must not be doing it right."  First of all, that's a little insulting.  And it is also edging into the territory where I'm apt to make the determination that a posters viewpoints are no longer of any value to me, NOT because they come from a viewpoint different from my own but from a viewpoint that won't even CONSIDER mine, even when I point it out rather clearly.  mythusmage may wish to take that under advisment.That's all I have to say about that except that I apologize to Sweeny Todd for feeling that I must address this in his thread.</blockquote>

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