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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 4925181" data-attributes="member: 22779">As was mentioned earlier, try re-reading those blog posts without the reader filter you had in place at the time.  Try it now, with a bit of time to lend objectivity.Yup.I certainly can.  There's always room for improvement.  However, there is a difference between, "They can do this better" and "I can't believe how incredibly crappy they did!"  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />It matters because it gets to the heart of why people say they were insulted.  I am of the opinion that people were being "insulted" simply because they were pissed off about 4e and wanted to find something to be insulted about.  That there are more than a few people out there who began spreading the whole "WOTC is pissing all over gamers" meme in an attempt to somehow prove they were right about how bad 4e was.In other words, people were being overly think skinned and deliberately taking offense based on their opinion of the new edition and it had little or nothing to do with what was actually being said.Heck, a ways back upthread Windjammer mentiones the "cloud watching" blog post.  Yet, when that post was re-examined a few months later, nothing insulting was found.  To the point where those who had originally claimed to be insulted actually accused WOTC of editing the blog post after the fact to remove any insulting elements.  Yet, that was proven 100% false.When people are willing to flat out lie in order to "prove" that they were insulted, I'm less than willing to accept wrongdoing.</blockquote>

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