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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 4118848" data-attributes="member: 2205">Why should I look at it that way?  That analogy doesn't encapsulate my experience here at all.  We're a community, not an organism.  Community health is ensured by an influx of 'new blood' periodically, and by maintaining the 'old guard' so they don't go away.Controversial, interesting things going on in the community is a lot more healthy than a rather bland "Be excellent to each other, and party on, dude!" status quo.  I bet if you looked at usage statistics, postcounts, new member registrations, old 'prodigal sons' returning and stuff like that, you'd see that this community has been healthier since GenCon 2007 and the 4e announcement than it had been in years before.That's nice, but that's not what this post has been about.  Buzz is saying specifically to not get excited or passionate about this kinda stuff because "it's just a game."  I'm saying that's exactly the kind of attitude that causes folks to wander off, quit posting, quit playing and drop out of the hobby altogether.Yeah, sure, and of course respect and civility as always preferable to the alternative.  I'm just nitpicking that one concept and idea out of your post, not trying to argue against the whole shebang.  I'm simply saying that I don't see a whole lot of value in some kind of Kumbaya gamer brotherhood---I actually like being able to winnow out who's on the same page as me more easily so I can 1) pay more particular attention to their feedback when I have a gamer question, and 2) look for games from them when it comes to things like a gameday or GenCon event.  And I see the passion and divisiveness not as a problem, but rather a sign that there's still vitality left in the hobby.I know!   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />   Actually, Quickbeam and I have talked about possibly coming up again sometime soon.  Now that our grueling, will-sapping Age of Worms campaign has finally been fully endured to its conclusion, we're actually all feeling a bit revitalized about gaming in general again.</blockquote>

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