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<blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 9446650" data-attributes="member: 15700">Which is why I'm a huge advocate of never deifying anyone.&nbsp; Anyone.&nbsp; Hero worship is the path to disappointment or a whole heck of a lot of cognitive dissonance. I learned this lesson the hard way with David Eddings. I find it exceptionally damaging in our own community when we got Dave Arneson camps vs. Gygax camps.&nbsp; I have no idea why people who don't personally know either of these guys take sides in that war. Let me add: I mentioned upthread about how these constant conversations about Gary put his kids in a tough situation and I'm sure they're tired of constantly seeing it, and how many times people apply sins of the father to the kids. I have to admit my bias. My own father is a piece of garbage who should be in jail. That doesn't mean me or my siblings are bad people. I know this, just like Luke, Heidi, and the others know they aren't bad people.&nbsp; But good lord, I'm tired of hearing about how awful my dad is, and I only hear it from my mom and aunts and uncles, not thousands of gamers on the daily. I imagine it has to be extra tough for them when people constantly deify Gary like he's a saint. How else are his kids supposed to react to that?I'm no Ben Riggs, but I have had many conversations with many people who personally knew Gary, and the impression I've got was that he hated to be challenged. And often reacted with angry sarcasm. &quot;You think that's bad? Let me tell you what is really bad!&quot;&nbsp; A classic defensive take on how what they did wasn't bad because it could always be worse. Kinda the mantra us Gen X kids grew up with from our parents <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :P"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" /> Everyone is going to make their own judgement, but that's how I read that statement. Of course, that doesn't mean all the other things he said or did were not a problem, only that I suspect in that statement this is the case.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sacrosanct, post: 9446650, member: 15700"] Which is why I'm a huge advocate of never deifying anyone. Anyone. Hero worship is the path to disappointment or a whole heck of a lot of cognitive dissonance. I learned this lesson the hard way with David Eddings. I find it exceptionally damaging in our own community when we got Dave Arneson camps vs. Gygax camps. I have no idea why people who don't personally know either of these guys take sides in that war. Let me add: I mentioned upthread about how these constant conversations about Gary put his kids in a tough situation and I'm sure they're tired of constantly seeing it, and how many times people apply sins of the father to the kids. I have to admit my bias. My own father is a piece of garbage who should be in jail. That doesn't mean me or my siblings are bad people. I know this, just like Luke, Heidi, and the others know they aren't bad people. But good lord, I'm tired of hearing about how awful my dad is, and I only hear it from my mom and aunts and uncles, not thousands of gamers on the daily. I imagine it has to be extra tough for them when people constantly deify Gary like he's a saint. How else are his kids supposed to react to that? I'm no Ben Riggs, but I have had many conversations with many people who personally knew Gary, and the impression I've got was that he hated to be challenged. And often reacted with angry sarcasm. "You think that's bad? Let me tell you what is really bad!" A classic defensive take on how what they did wasn't bad because it could always be worse. Kinda the mantra us Gen X kids grew up with from our parents :P Everyone is going to make their own judgement, but that's how I read that statement. Of course, that doesn't mean all the other things he said or did were not a problem, only that I suspect in that statement this is the case. [/QUOTE]

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