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<blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 8712666" data-attributes="member: 6796661"><p>If he believes this, the problem is he must be suffering from such a break from reality he should seek professional help. There is no situation where he only has terrible people to game with. Even if you are stuck in some isolated small town full of awful people and can't move for some reason, there are plenty of online options. But if you are Ernie GYGAX, living in Lake Geneva, with the network in gaming he has inherited, he should have no problem being picky with who he plays. The risk isn't being overly picky and not having anyone to play with, the risk is he's become so unpicky that he's associating himself with people that will drive most everyone else away. There is no way I can look at this and come away with a positive impression of the man. At best he's a nebbish, a quisling, and a rube who is too weak-willed to extracate him from openly toxic and hateful people that are using him for their own gain and besmirching his family legacy in the process. At worst, he is of the same mind as these people, yet is too stupid or has too much hubris to keep his hateful opinions on the down-low and distance himself from them for at least business reasons. I mean he could be a true believer thinking he's fighting the good fight against the "woke mob" but he has shied away from openly taking that stance.</p><p></p><p>From any angle I try to look at him, he just comes off as a pathetic and spineless loser.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MNblockhead, post: 8712666, member: 6796661"] If he believes this, the problem is he must be suffering from such a break from reality he should seek professional help. There is no situation where he only has terrible people to game with. Even if you are stuck in some isolated small town full of awful people and can't move for some reason, there are plenty of online options. But if you are Ernie GYGAX, living in Lake Geneva, with the network in gaming he has inherited, he should have no problem being picky with who he plays. The risk isn't being overly picky and not having anyone to play with, the risk is he's become so unpicky that he's associating himself with people that will drive most everyone else away. There is no way I can look at this and come away with a positive impression of the man. At best he's a nebbish, a quisling, and a rube who is too weak-willed to extracate him from openly toxic and hateful people that are using him for their own gain and besmirching his family legacy in the process. At worst, he is of the same mind as these people, yet is too stupid or has too much hubris to keep his hateful opinions on the down-low and distance himself from them for at least business reasons. I mean he could be a true believer thinking he's fighting the good fight against the "woke mob" but he has shied away from openly taking that stance. From any angle I try to look at him, he just comes off as a pathetic and spineless loser. [/QUOTE]
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