Mostly it's the belief that one person can speak for all gamers everywhere that sticks in my craw. More often than not, people use terms like "everyone" and "nobody" to inflate a weak argument...to make whatever they write seem more applicable and more important than it is. It makes me itch.That's all very valid, but it also seems like it all boils down to needing to throw in some qualifiers of "everybody I know" or "in my experience, everybody". It gets tiring to have to police the extent of every statement you make to repetitively acknowledge the limits of your own experience. But of course, when you don't, the reader often has no way of knowing whether you are simply being uncareful in your language, or whether you are actually being uncareful in your thinking, because one of the central bummers of saying anything online is that you are forever making first impressions.
The one thing that gets me is when you make a comment and someone responds with something like, "Well, that's just your opinion." Well DUH! Whose opinion would I be using?That's all very valid, but it also seems like it all boils down to needing to throw in some qualifiers of "everybody I know" or "in my experience, everybody". It gets tiring to have to police the extent of every statement you make to repetitively acknowledge the limits of your own experience. But of course, when you don't, the reader often has no way of knowing whether you are simply being uncareful in your language, or whether you are actually being uncareful in your thinking, because one of the central bummers of saying anything online is that you are forever making first impressions.
If you don't know how to make a proper Reuben, there's no way I'd trust you to run my D&D table.
If you don't know how to make a proper Reuben, there's no way I'd trust you to run my D&D table.