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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Torm" data-source="post: 1525636" data-attributes="member: 12706">Rel - I can definitely tell you who the "scumsuckers" are, and without getting political, either. (Not to say that some people in politics aren't part of who I'm talking about, but not all of them, and certainly not all of any particular party.) They're the people who, as I said before, have the power and resources to make the sort of changes you (I'm assuming) or I would like to make to help people, but use it all only to further some narrow self-serving agenda and/or make themselves richer. Five million dollars (U.S.) is (more than?) enough to live VERY nicely for a moderate sized family without ever having to work again or really want for much of anything that any sane person would want, but we have people out there with BILLIONS, and they use them like they're nothing but tools in a game to get more. At the height of his fortune, a certain BILLionaire had enough finances that he could've paid for full college educations, including food and housing, for every child in K-12 at the time - off just INTEREST on his money. Without losing anything he had at the start of the process. Or he could have performed any number of noble acts that are beyond what most people dream of doing. I'm not asking for a handout from anybody, but I think about what I would do, and can't help but wonder why we never see ANY of it. I mean, heck, its not even totally unselfish - haven't these people ever heard of having a legacy? And not all of the people I'm talking about are extremely rich or internationally known - I guarantee there are people you know of in your own community who act like life is a game they're playing AGAINST everyone else, and they're going to win.francisca - I didn't say D&D was an absolute bad, or "evil". I was just presenting one thing I had thought of as bad about the game before, since no one was saying anything negative at that point. You have to admit, D&D is a hobby that takes up a lot more time than most others, especially for some powergamers who make a lifestyle out of it, and that has a great deal of potential to take away from other, dare I say, more worthy activities.But at least D&D players aren't smoking crack. At least, most of them. <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=";)" />I'm glad your group was there for your friend, and I wouldn't take a thing away from that.all - I'm sorry it's been coming out in some of my posts, but I'm having a REALLY bad week (about the 4th worst ever, and if you knew my history, that's saying a LOT) and I guess its got me thinking more than usual about how things are just screwed up all over. I feel like I should be doing more with my life, and looking around, I see a lot of other people that it seems like are letting themselves and the rest of us down, too. And it makes me feel guilty about not doing anything about it, but I'm tired. If you're happy and enjoy D&D, I don't mean to take anything away from that - probably the best GOOD thing in the world is managing to be happy in all this crap.</blockquote>

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