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<blockquote data-quote="Nork" data-source="post: 5210639" data-attributes="member: 59879"><p>I think the guy has enough of a point.</p><p></p><p>I think a lot of it is because there are enough (I said enough, not all) gamers that want to 'escape life' through playing fantasy games, and anything that even jostles their escapism is seen as a direct attack on their person. Your disrupting their Matrix and they are one of the ones in there by choice.</p><p></p><p>I really see it come out with a fury in miniature wargames, as they are by definition confrontational games (confrontation does not mean a lack of sportsmanship), and there is a demographic that gets ANGRY and insist you are 'playing wrong' when it doesn't follow their mental construction of how things 'should go'. I've also noticed that those same people tended to edition war the hardest over 4E, or react like rolling a 1 is a personal failure or rolling a 20 is a personal triumph. Yea, rolling a 20 is cool, but YOU didn't do anything, your character did, and you and your character are different things.</p><p></p><p>Which I think is really my point. Some gamers treat games like reading a book or watching a movie and tend to be less invested, and other gamers seem to treat it like an alter-ego. The alter-ego gamers seem like they get hyper upset over stuff like edition changes. Which make sense to me, as changing editions is basically an attempt at shutting their Matrix down.</p><p></p><p>When it comes to the idea that someone is being dismissive or rude towards a system you like: So what. I like the tragedies Shakespeare wrote, and some people find them boring and are dismissive towards them. No skin off my nose, and frankly, people would treat me like I was crazy if I flew off the handle at someone for saying Hamlet was confusing and boring. To them it is, and they shouldn't have to walk on egg shells about that fact. Which I think is what the quote in the original post was driving at.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nork, post: 5210639, member: 59879"] I think the guy has enough of a point. I think a lot of it is because there are enough (I said enough, not all) gamers that want to 'escape life' through playing fantasy games, and anything that even jostles their escapism is seen as a direct attack on their person. Your disrupting their Matrix and they are one of the ones in there by choice. I really see it come out with a fury in miniature wargames, as they are by definition confrontational games (confrontation does not mean a lack of sportsmanship), and there is a demographic that gets ANGRY and insist you are 'playing wrong' when it doesn't follow their mental construction of how things 'should go'. I've also noticed that those same people tended to edition war the hardest over 4E, or react like rolling a 1 is a personal failure or rolling a 20 is a personal triumph. Yea, rolling a 20 is cool, but YOU didn't do anything, your character did, and you and your character are different things. Which I think is really my point. Some gamers treat games like reading a book or watching a movie and tend to be less invested, and other gamers seem to treat it like an alter-ego. The alter-ego gamers seem like they get hyper upset over stuff like edition changes. Which make sense to me, as changing editions is basically an attempt at shutting their Matrix down. When it comes to the idea that someone is being dismissive or rude towards a system you like: So what. I like the tragedies Shakespeare wrote, and some people find them boring and are dismissive towards them. No skin off my nose, and frankly, people would treat me like I was crazy if I flew off the handle at someone for saying Hamlet was confusing and boring. To them it is, and they shouldn't have to walk on egg shells about that fact. Which I think is what the quote in the original post was driving at. [/QUOTE]
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