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<blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 9619369" data-attributes="member: 59082">Well, I didn't really say your sarcasm piece. But...I will say that at a cursory glance of his twitter feed, I found some of the responses a lot more deplorable than what Mearls said, and not at all proportional to what he said...which is pretty much par for the course in our day and age: things taken out of context, misinterpreted, wildly exaggerated, taken too personally, and the response often far worse than what it is responding to.I also don't agree with the implication that the audience is always right - whatever response they have is free from the same consequences that evidently only the &quot;Names&quot; face. It sort of ties into the consumerist adage that the customer is always right. Sometimes the customer is just a jerk.More to the point, I think scale and context matters. This isn't some billionaire making light of the impact of a missed social security check; this is a D&amp;D nerd, albeit a well-known one, talking about how he thinks D&amp;D should be in a tone that some find off-putting. Yet the response seems more in line with the former than the latter.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mercurius, post: 9619369, member: 59082"] Well, I didn't really say your sarcasm piece. But...I will say that at a cursory glance of his twitter feed, I found some of the responses a lot more deplorable than what Mearls said, and not at all proportional to what he said...which is pretty much par for the course in our day and age: things taken out of context, misinterpreted, wildly exaggerated, taken too personally, and the response often far worse than what it is responding to. I also don't agree with the implication that the audience is always right - whatever response they have is free from the same consequences that evidently only the "Names" face. It sort of ties into the consumerist adage that the customer is always right. Sometimes the customer is just a jerk. More to the point, I think scale and context matters. This isn't some billionaire making light of the impact of a missed social security check; this is a D&D nerd, albeit a well-known one, talking about how he thinks D&D should be in a tone that some find off-putting. Yet the response seems more in line with the former than the latter. [/QUOTE]

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