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The example I point out is the generic sneering at TexMex you get in some circles--you know, the style that was invented by Mexican immigrant women to feed railroad workers?

I lived out in southern California for a bit as a kid and it really gave me a great appreciation for the wide varieties of styles of Mexican cuisine available in the south west (you can get authentic Mexican too in border states, but Tex Mex is its own thing and I think really quite good). People may not realize this but the Italian food you get at most Italian restaurants is essentially like an italian version of tex mex. I grew up on Italian food. It is very different at home, and I can get nostalgic for it, but there is also something special about veal or chicken parm done at a red sauce italian restaurant
 



It's a marvel the very fabric of society, no reality! didn't unravel when what was being pushed on 12 year-olds was Planescape and Dark Sun.

I hear ya!

As Mama Snarf always said, Listen up, you no-witted slack-jawed mouthbreather. There's a place for you somewhere, Snarf, 'cuz every village needs an idiot. Now I don't wanna hear none of yer sass about how hard life is- remember, how you been brought up doesn't have anything to do with how you turn out. That's all on you, Snarf. Remember that when you come back whining about "therapy" or "inability to create basic human connections" or whatever. Now, go get yer Mama an eightball and a gallon of everclear. It's gonna be a party tonight!"
 


Well in fairness, they are a toy company. Twelve year-old children are pretty much their target market.

I think it s more like 12 is the starting age. Since I have been gaming, it seems like RPGs have roughly been 12 to adult, with a large number of high school, college age and older playing (I started in 86 when I was only ten and we even had grognards back then lol). So I think "it is for 12 year olds" is an argument that would really diminish the content. Even when I started, I may have been 10, but part of why I liked it was because the books were more advanced. They seemed targeted at older readers. I think generally this often holds. If they just target to 12 year olds, they lose all the other demographics. I do understand D&D isn't going to be WoD, and they need to have it broad enough that it appeals to people from 12 to 80. But you can make the game and its media so that you keep the young audience without losing the older audience. It does get little frustrating at times being called old, described as an old man yelling at clouds, or even as a grognard (if the term is being delivered with acidity) when all you are doing is critiquing media
 

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