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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 4092090" data-attributes="member: 2067">This appears to be speculating on the motives of a poster, rather than on the content of the post. You seem to be claiming that when someone doesn't like a change that 4e is making that, a lot of the time it is habit, nostalgia, monetary worries, or general unwelcome change.You can't read minds, internet posts are a poor place to analyze someone's internal thought process, and speculating on the motives of other posters rather than on the content of their post is exceptionally insulting to the poster. If you stick to what was said rather than trying to find out why they said it, the conversation can be a little more constructive.What else they talk about doesn't really come to bear on the discussion about 4e's lack of believability for them. Addressing the specific matter of 4e's believability (or lack thereof) is more constructive. Otherwise, you're just speculating on motives. Actually, it's not. It just derails conversation into talk about 3e, rather than talk about 4e. We can safely assume that if they think 3e was better, that they think 3e was better, because they think 3e was better. Questioning that assumption is pretty insulting, and is ultimately useless because they think that 3e was better.The reasons 4e departs from the way 3e did things is useful. Mentioning why 4e does things this way instead is useful. Showing how the 4e rule helps more than it hinders is useful.Telling them that 3e was bad, too, and that they're just afraid of change, are set in their ways, are blinded by nostalgia, or are too worried about money to make a fair judgement on 4e is completely useless, and fairly insulting.FWIW, the OP isn't actually attributing motives to people, but saying that 3e was bad, too, is STILL useless in the discussion about 4e's changes.</blockquote>

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