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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ProfessorCirno" data-source="post: 4675527" data-attributes="member: 65637">Prostitution, so long as it's legalized, is indeed, ironically, a victimless crime.  It's when it's made illegal that there're problems.Pot is not physically addictive.  It's a soft drug and it's as dangerous - if not less so - then chocolate.  It's illegal for stupid, illogical, and political (or perhaps I just repeat myself) reasons that have no base or touch in reality.  Also, Asprin is a drug.WotC is a big boy that grosses more money then I could ever see in my life and doesn't need defending on the internet.  I truly doubt it cares what me, some random dickhead, truly thinks.So in other words, allow me to disagree.That doesn't mean I want WotC to fail, or that I want 4e to crash and burn.  Good grief, you're allowed to disagree with something and not hate it.  I dislike 4e, so I don't buy it.  I don't hate Wizards because of it, and I'd be happy if they continued business.  They're just going to do it sans a customer.TSR didn't crash and burn because people said mean things about them.  TSR went down because it was utterly moronic with how it handled business.  That's the purpose of a market - the products that people like make money, the products people don't like do not make money.  Me sitting in front of a dinky laptop thinking "Boy I don't like 4e that much" isn't going to spark some giant revolution that destroys WotC, and quite frankly, if it did, then the product in question wasn't going to survive for very long in the first place.It would suck if WotC went out of business, yes.  It sucked when Troika went out of business, but that's how capitalism works.  Just because I liked Troika doesn't mean everyone else did, and while I can sit behind previously mentioned laptop in my cramped and overcharged apartment while waiting for the next meagre and inatiquite paycheck to let me LIVE THE DREAM for a bit longer and think of the rest of the world as hooting morons who wouldn't understand the concept of taste even if I could telepathically force it into their brains, it doesn't change the fact that Troika did not offer what the market wanted.  And if D&D somehow vanished off the face of the earth, despite it sucking in an amazing manner, it would not change the fact that this is how the world works.  White knigting on the internet doesn't do anything but stop rational conversation.Oh, and people have had those "Mass fan uprisings" against the one company I can think of that tried to take down people who gave their stuff away for free.  It was called Cthulutech, and it lost a whole lot of support and ultimately - here's the best part - it trying to stop the free stuff only made it happen more often.  Meanwhile, most companies just don't care too much or, in some cases, openly accept it.  MaidRPG has a whole section in the back thanking people for downloading it for free, asking them to throw in a few bucks if they enjoyed it.</blockquote>

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