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<blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 494100" data-attributes="member: 7240">I find your problem baffling. I was a leftist politician for 10 years -- in the newspaper fighting for pro-choice, environmentalist, left-wing ideas. Some of my best friends were very active in right-wing politics. So, every 2-4 years, we'd be out there fighting tooth and nail against eachother in elections. It never interfered with our friendships. And it wasn't because we didn't talk about politics. In many cases, that was all we talked about. We just didn't make it personal. You have to ask yourself why it bothers you so much that your friend thinks your current line of work is idiotic. Tens of thousands of people don't; shouldn't that be enough?D&amp;D is a dumb rule system -- the granularity, excessive codification and arbitrariness are silly. D&amp;D is defensible as a culture, not as a rule system. Why aren't you laughing about all the absurdities that your friend points out? He sounds like he could be a great guy to sit down and bitch to about your work when it annoys you.On the other hand, maybe there's information I don't have and your friend is really a humourless ass who is jealous that you get paid to work in gaming (which is mighty cool).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fusangite, post: 494100, member: 7240"] I find your problem baffling. I was a leftist politician for 10 years -- in the newspaper fighting for pro-choice, environmentalist, left-wing ideas. Some of my best friends were very active in right-wing politics. So, every 2-4 years, we'd be out there fighting tooth and nail against eachother in elections. It never interfered with our friendships. And it wasn't because we didn't talk about politics. In many cases, that was all we talked about. We just didn't make it personal. You have to ask yourself why it bothers you so much that your friend thinks your current line of work is idiotic. Tens of thousands of people don't; shouldn't that be enough? D&D [i]is[/i] a dumb rule system -- the granularity, excessive codification and arbitrariness [i]are[/i] silly. D&D is defensible as a culture, not as a rule system. Why aren't you laughing about all the absurdities that your friend points out? He sounds like he could be a great guy to sit down and bitch to about your work when it annoys you. On the other hand, maybe there's information I don't have and your friend is really a humourless ass who is jealous that you get paid to work in gaming (which is mighty cool). [/QUOTE]

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