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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Meek" data-source="post: 4569291" data-attributes="member: 78339">One last post to talk to Darrin, whom I want to thank for talking to me as an individual and being straight. <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=":)" />I understand all of what you said. And to a point that is how I feel. I acknowledged that OSRIC is free. Much like I did with Pathfinder, Swords and Wizardry, Dread, and Wushu. I also acknowledged, that OSRIC is great for what it is. However, when I write, I do it in that style, and those elements and whatever my personal feelings are I bury into the persona I project when I'm writing my reviews. I write rather schizophrenically on my blog – certain posts have certain personas and the prevailing one is to be acerbic and badmouthed. That's the humor. I don't like, and can understand, when people are offended by what I write. So whenever I think somebody is genuinely offended I come and try to talk to them about what happened. I don't like, either, when I am ignored and written off as a non-person when I'm trying to explain myself and make peace with somebody. Admittedly at this point I was not being a paragon of peace, but I was a little annoyed, and have since cooled off enough approach this from a different perspective. This is a learning experience for me, as like I said, it is the first time I felt I had genuinely crossed a line. Once I had thought I offended the Chatty DM and went to talk to him, and we sorted things out, and we're cool with each other now. I even talk to him with some regularity. So I've been wanting to try to reach out and get people to understand. I'm not out to offend anyone, but to entertain my readers, who have come to expect certain traits and come to me for them. I continue to deliver on that with them knowing that I'm not really like that, and hopefully with other people inferring what I really feel about a product beyond all the negativity. I think the only time I was completely unfair to a game was White Wolf's Promethean.So I'm going to go to the post now, and edit the last part out, and hopefully we can understand each other. This is a lesson for the future for all of us, I hope.</blockquote>

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