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Message: <blockquote data-quote="touc" data-source="post: 8704112" data-attributes="member: 19270">I appreciate the work that is done to keep this an amicable community. I come here to engage in a hobby, not swim in toxic waters and indulge in anger.There were still some toxic gamers when I was rolling dice in the 90s. They just didn't have a far-reaching place to air their racism, bigotry, sexist game styles and so on. [spoiler] One example was from a female gamer whose previous adult DM in his 30s had a sci-fi setting with female slave planets and the idea that women couldn't fight or do anything useful. When she protested, he announced her character suffocated in an airlock. She and her husband kicked that group to the curb and never looked back. Back then, he didn't have social media to retreat into to find fellow sexist DMs who would reinforce his style of play. [/spoiler] Now that they do, I don't engage. Like my spoiler, I kick that type of talk to the curb and appreciate if I'm on a forum that does.But, I am just as optimistic we have a good community as I was a generation ago because my life experience tells me that guys like the spoiler are not even close to the norm nor do they represent anything close to a significant portion of the fan base.</blockquote>