The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

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No, I don't remember when talking about D&D was actually fun. At least, none of the past 4 years I've been doing it on the internet have been particularly "fun".

 

[dragoner]

Oh good, we've achieved Pepe memes.

They hit the IL with a quickness.

 

[Gradine]

This is what I was talking about earlier, btw.

 

[trappedslider]

Look, I'm not saying you can't make up new words. That's how new words show up! They aren't received carved on stone tablets from the Word Gods (... uh, TM Microsoft, I guess). You can make up a word, it's fine.

 

[niklinna]

They hit the IL with a quickness.

What's an "IL"? I'm not down with all this fancy jargon.

 

[dragoner]

What's an "IL"? I'm not down with all this fancy jargon.

Ignore List

 

[J.Quondam]

No, I don't remember when talking about D&D was actually fun. At least, none of the past 4 years I've been doing it on the internet have been particularly "fun".

That's too bad, but I think perfectly true, too.
It's probably just my rose-tinted specs of nostalgia, but I recall pre-Edition War chit-chat being a bit more lighthearted overall.* There were flare ups, of course, but for the most part there wasn't so much industry speculation, lawsuit ogling, or pedantic trollery and outright threadcrapping. There seemed to be a lot more creative brainstorming threads, story hours, PEACHing, fleshing out of adventure/ campaign ideas, rules and edition-conversion questions, and so forth.
That said, imo two very positive evolutions in discussions since then have been frank talk about gaming culture and inclusiveness; and history of the game beyond what Gary Gygax posted here and there.

Stuff changes, I suppose; and the experience of newer-comers to hobby-talk will certainly be different to older gamers; and it will be different for new gamers still.

* hat of d02, notwithstanding.

 

[niklinna]

I'm just glad this discussion hasn't actually gone to the level of linguistic theory. I'd have to bring up...Chomsky.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Has there literally ever been a thread discussing alignment where everyone came to an agreement about what it actually meant and what each of the alignments are actually representing? Because if discussions like that exist, I've never seen one.

A major reason I don't use alignment is that no one can agree on what the hell it even means.

 

[Ryujin]

No, I don't remember when talking about D&D was actually fun. At least, none of the past 4 years I've been doing it on the internet have been particularly "fun".

Well it was kind of fun when we had to do it in hushed whispers, behind closed doors, because of being accused of following Da Debil on one side, and being wedgied by the jocks on the other.