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<blockquote data-quote="ArchfiendBobbie" data-source="post: 7722358" data-attributes="member: 6867728"><p>To be fair, Cook himself was speaking in anger a lot during that period. He did not have a good relationship with WotC or Hasbro during that period, and it showed in a lot of his writings from the time. This was one of them, and I do suspect that relationship colored his viewpoints a bit and had him saying things he later came to regret.</p><p></p><p>At this time, I would not be surprised if he didn't hold the opposite viewpoint, having experienced what it's like from the publisher side. So time and age might have made him conclude his earlier statements were mistakes, and he's been led to learn from them.</p><p></p><p>That is the problem with the idea of consistent views: It's very much not human to hold the same view for much of your life. People grow, change, and sometimes come to conclude the very thing they railed against in their youth isn't bad or even is something they should do. That is what might have happened with Cook.</p><p></p><p>Incidentally, remember when I called him a bad apple and a troll king? You quoted some of the statements that are why I said such. His statements fueled some of the nastier fights on the WotC forums during the 3.0 vs. 3.5 edition wars, and helped fuel the later 3E vs. 4E edition wars when some of the 3.0 people sided with the 4E people to gloat and troll the 3.5 people. Basically, he helped build the foundation of the nastiest internal dispute I have ever seen in the DnD community.</p><p></p><p>So, yeah. You're kinda bringing up the basics of a very nasty edition war that I hope to never see spark here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ArchfiendBobbie, post: 7722358, member: 6867728"] To be fair, Cook himself was speaking in anger a lot during that period. He did not have a good relationship with WotC or Hasbro during that period, and it showed in a lot of his writings from the time. This was one of them, and I do suspect that relationship colored his viewpoints a bit and had him saying things he later came to regret. At this time, I would not be surprised if he didn't hold the opposite viewpoint, having experienced what it's like from the publisher side. So time and age might have made him conclude his earlier statements were mistakes, and he's been led to learn from them. That is the problem with the idea of consistent views: It's very much not human to hold the same view for much of your life. People grow, change, and sometimes come to conclude the very thing they railed against in their youth isn't bad or even is something they should do. That is what might have happened with Cook. Incidentally, remember when I called him a bad apple and a troll king? You quoted some of the statements that are why I said such. His statements fueled some of the nastier fights on the WotC forums during the 3.0 vs. 3.5 edition wars, and helped fuel the later 3E vs. 4E edition wars when some of the 3.0 people sided with the 4E people to gloat and troll the 3.5 people. Basically, he helped build the foundation of the nastiest internal dispute I have ever seen in the DnD community. So, yeah. You're kinda bringing up the basics of a very nasty edition war that I hope to never see spark here. [/QUOTE]
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