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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ourph" data-source="post: 3376615" data-attributes="member: 20239">That's not what I said.I'm not offended by it at all, but I think it would be hypocritical to post a sarcastic, shot-taking review like that (even if it is mostly in good fun) and then turn around and be offended when others take your work and subject it to the same treatment (again mostly in good fun).I am not implying that.  Apparently you are imagining things.   <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=";)" /> What I'm saying is that, 1) I don't see Mike getting all offended at the comments people direct toward his work and his POV; 2) If he did get offended by blunt criticism it would be a little silly, since he is intentionally challenging sacred cows and addressing contentious topics with blunt and unsympathetic analyses; and 3) You can be embarrassed if you want, but I don't think anyone has said anything in this thread or in previous threads concerning Mike's work that they need to be ashamed of.I will be right along-side you if they are being attacked on a personal level.  When people are picking apart their performance at their job or the opinions they express regarding the game, that's a different thing.  It's always important to be as polite as possible of course, but there's only so much you can do to sugarcoat the phrase "I think his work is horrible." or "In my opinion, that is the worst idea I've ever heard.".If it's "The Man's" job to offer his opinion on contentious issues in public, it seems only natural that a certain amount of vociferous disagreement is going to follow.  It seems to me that if the issues Mike writes about weren't expected to be contentious then there wouldn't be much sense in addressing them in the first place.  IMO the firestorms his recent articles on the WotC site have generated among the fan community were the expected and desired result of the articles, not some shameful byproduct.  I know if I were writing those articles I'd be much happier to see a 30-page debate on their merits than a one-post thread with no replies.  At least the 30-page thread indicates people are reading and thinking about my work, even if they don't always agree with me.</blockquote>

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