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<blockquote data-quote="seebs" data-source="post: 6787632" data-attributes="member: 61529"><p>That's true of all of us, though. I was merely complaining about people declaring that there's something wrong with anyone who doesn't want to play public games.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I thought I was clear enough, but apparently not.</p><p></p><p><strong>I have never thought that <em>WotC</em> was being insulting to me.</strong></p><p></p><p>I think that the people <strong>telling me I should be happy with their choices no matter what</strong> are being insulting to me.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Okay, that's not a bad idea at all, except that telling people "you are wrong to not want that thing, and stupid not to see how good the thing is, and should not express this complaint" does not actually help people find a way to be satisfied.</p><p></p><p>In fact, I already long since found a way to be satisfied, which is to buy only the stuff they actually make available for me to buy, not the stuff they don't, and write my own adventures most of the time anyway. I'm not in this thread because I think there's a horrible problem that will destroy D&D; I'm in it because I saw people handwaving complaints away and saying "those complaints are invalid and the people who have those complaints are invalid".</p><p></p><p>Thing is, most of the time, people already long since figured out how to adapt to a circumstance, so while I'm sure you intend to be helpful, what you're actually being is invalidating, and that <strong>does not help</strong>.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I have never refused to do anything of the sort. There was a discussion of whether or not Wizards should be publishing more content. People said the AL modules counted as content, other people said "it's not really available to me", and then they got told that they were wrong to think that because all they have to do is play the game the way someone else thinks they should instead of the way they want to.</p><p></p><p>And that struck me as unhelpful, so I commented.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="seebs, post: 6787632, member: 61529"] That's true of all of us, though. I was merely complaining about people declaring that there's something wrong with anyone who doesn't want to play public games. I thought I was clear enough, but apparently not. [b]I have never thought that [i]WotC[/i] was being insulting to me.[/b] I think that the people [b]telling me I should be happy with their choices no matter what[/b] are being insulting to me. Okay, that's not a bad idea at all, except that telling people "you are wrong to not want that thing, and stupid not to see how good the thing is, and should not express this complaint" does not actually help people find a way to be satisfied. In fact, I already long since found a way to be satisfied, which is to buy only the stuff they actually make available for me to buy, not the stuff they don't, and write my own adventures most of the time anyway. I'm not in this thread because I think there's a horrible problem that will destroy D&D; I'm in it because I saw people handwaving complaints away and saying "those complaints are invalid and the people who have those complaints are invalid". Thing is, most of the time, people already long since figured out how to adapt to a circumstance, so while I'm sure you intend to be helpful, what you're actually being is invalidating, and that [b]does not help[/b]. I have never refused to do anything of the sort. There was a discussion of whether or not Wizards should be publishing more content. People said the AL modules counted as content, other people said "it's not really available to me", and then they got told that they were wrong to think that because all they have to do is play the game the way someone else thinks they should instead of the way they want to. And that struck me as unhelpful, so I commented. [/QUOTE]
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