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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Xetheral" data-source="post: 7936052" data-attributes="member: 6802765">I suspect that different views on the nature of D&D contribute to wildly different understandings of what it means to "love" or "hate" a particular edition. As an example, consider the difference between loving/hating a new movie in a franchise to loving/hating a new version of office software. One can feel pationately enough about either to make the love/hate labels accurate, but the feelings are still categorically different.I entirely agree with you that if someone insults a movie I love, I'm going to feel as if my opinions are under attack. By contrast, if someone insults productivity software that I love, I instinctively chalk it up to differences in opinion and different use cases.It's probably difficult for those who think of D&D as analagous to a movie to consider it instead as analagous to a tool, and vice versa. But while both opinions are equally valid, I think we should all use language that respects the stronger of the two types of attachments, so that no one feels attacked.</blockquote>