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<blockquote data-quote="Essafah" data-source="post: 8326944" data-attributes="member: 16472"><p>Mr. Kuntz first of all. I am a fan of your work. Thank you for taking time to communicate with people on this forum (myself included).</p><p></p><p>To your point. Yes. I am trying to understand both sides. To be clear, I have absolutely no love for bigots and those who deride other folks due to their creed, religion, sexual orientation, race and all that. I also do not like though people forcing their views on others and interjecting real world politics into a game that I play for fantasy escapism. I also don't like the dogpiling that is going on towards Ernie because he SEEMS like a good person though I have never met the man. The contempt displayed for LaNasa is a different matter. Ernie whom you know far better than me seems like a genuinely good man albeit a bit unlearned of real world issues. He put his foot in his mouth. I would hope that he comes around to fully admitting it but I don't like people calling him an incel acting like D&D was always cool and the hip thing like Critical Role is now. I am sure you know that his story of the growing up and D&D being for the outcast is far more accurate a depiction of what DnD was like (in all honesty up until the aughts and not even the early aughts). I am not saying everyone experience bullies but D&D was more like the Breakfast Club in that it was comprised of very differing people brought together by a love of dice over the table. </p><p></p><p>I am not one to tolerate someone showing me disrespect or being racist to me. I will confront that without pause but in all honesty I will reiterate I never experienced that at the gaming tables and while living in and being from the South I have lived from the SE U.S. to the West Coast and back again. In that time I may have been the only person of color at the gaming table or maybe one other person besides myself but I was always welcome. Now, that I look back as a child I can recall one person whose house we gamed at in the basement (something that people make fun of now ...gaming in the basement but that was a norm back then) and this person's parents now doing things that I think today were suspect BUT my actual friend that I game with and the people at the actual table I never had an issue with. Ever and no Black person that gamed that I know personally ever did either. </p><p></p><p>I am very sorry to hear that you and Ernie seemed to have parted ways (on his part). I had someone that I considered a friend that got sucked into conspiracy cult beliefs and we parted ways also. I know that can be painful. I hope Ernie finds his way. I also hope he reaches back out to you and you and he can settle things. Other than that thank you sir for helping to provide me with years of fun and being able to escape to a place where for a few hours of the day (and even longer during the bygone marathon game weekends of my youth) I didn't have to think about race, or politics, or escalating world tensions but could simply lose myself in a fun game of fantasy adventure.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Essafah, post: 8326944, member: 16472"] Mr. Kuntz first of all. I am a fan of your work. Thank you for taking time to communicate with people on this forum (myself included). To your point. Yes. I am trying to understand both sides. To be clear, I have absolutely no love for bigots and those who deride other folks due to their creed, religion, sexual orientation, race and all that. I also do not like though people forcing their views on others and interjecting real world politics into a game that I play for fantasy escapism. I also don't like the dogpiling that is going on towards Ernie because he SEEMS like a good person though I have never met the man. The contempt displayed for LaNasa is a different matter. Ernie whom you know far better than me seems like a genuinely good man albeit a bit unlearned of real world issues. He put his foot in his mouth. I would hope that he comes around to fully admitting it but I don't like people calling him an incel acting like D&D was always cool and the hip thing like Critical Role is now. I am sure you know that his story of the growing up and D&D being for the outcast is far more accurate a depiction of what DnD was like (in all honesty up until the aughts and not even the early aughts). I am not saying everyone experience bullies but D&D was more like the Breakfast Club in that it was comprised of very differing people brought together by a love of dice over the table. I am not one to tolerate someone showing me disrespect or being racist to me. I will confront that without pause but in all honesty I will reiterate I never experienced that at the gaming tables and while living in and being from the South I have lived from the SE U.S. to the West Coast and back again. In that time I may have been the only person of color at the gaming table or maybe one other person besides myself but I was always welcome. Now, that I look back as a child I can recall one person whose house we gamed at in the basement (something that people make fun of now ...gaming in the basement but that was a norm back then) and this person's parents now doing things that I think today were suspect BUT my actual friend that I game with and the people at the actual table I never had an issue with. Ever and no Black person that gamed that I know personally ever did either. I am very sorry to hear that you and Ernie seemed to have parted ways (on his part). I had someone that I considered a friend that got sucked into conspiracy cult beliefs and we parted ways also. I know that can be painful. I hope Ernie finds his way. I also hope he reaches back out to you and you and he can settle things. Other than that thank you sir for helping to provide me with years of fun and being able to escape to a place where for a few hours of the day (and even longer during the bygone marathon game weekends of my youth) I didn't have to think about race, or politics, or escalating world tensions but could simply lose myself in a fun game of fantasy adventure. [/QUOTE]
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