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<blockquote data-quote="MartyW" data-source="post: 7658384" data-attributes="member: 6776795"><p>You know, this post nagged at me the last couple days. At first, I brushed it off, but the more I thought about it, the more it seemed to be an unfair passive-aggressive characterization. It felt like an ad hominem attack to me (i.e. - My opinion is invalid because I am always negative).</p><p></p><p>I am a media critic. My choice of media is board and role playing games. I may be an amateur critic (not working for a for-profit newspaper/magazine/etc), but I endeavor to offer valid critique on issue I see within RPG and board games on my blog and social media.</p><p></p><p>I love 5th Edition and I've trumpeted that in numerous places on message boards, social media and on my blog.</p><p></p><p>But that doesn't mean that Wizards of the Coast (or other game publishers) don't deserve critique in areas where improvement could be made. Even when I critique, I almost always offer suggestions on how corrections or adjustments could be made on the perceived weakness.</p><p></p><p>Perhaps you didn't mean for that comment to be an attack, but it felt like one to me, and perhaps it was more cutting because I believe you to be a reasonable person who is an honest-to-goodness advocate for the industry. </p><p></p><p>Even though I've held strong feeling about the issues I've posted here, I think <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/search.php?searchid=7508371" target="_blank">if you look back at my posts on ENWorld</a> "relentless negativity" is an unfair commentary on my messages.</p><p></p><p>You are free to disagree with my opinions. But please don't dismiss them with what appears to be a a subtle put down. One wouldn't insult Roger Ebert (famous movie critic in the U.S.) as being "relentlessly negative" because he rated many movies poorly. He was offering his honest opinion on the media of his choice. I try to do the same.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MartyW, post: 7658384, member: 6776795"] You know, this post nagged at me the last couple days. At first, I brushed it off, but the more I thought about it, the more it seemed to be an unfair passive-aggressive characterization. It felt like an ad hominem attack to me (i.e. - My opinion is invalid because I am always negative). I am a media critic. My choice of media is board and role playing games. I may be an amateur critic (not working for a for-profit newspaper/magazine/etc), but I endeavor to offer valid critique on issue I see within RPG and board games on my blog and social media. I love 5th Edition and I've trumpeted that in numerous places on message boards, social media and on my blog. But that doesn't mean that Wizards of the Coast (or other game publishers) don't deserve critique in areas where improvement could be made. Even when I critique, I almost always offer suggestions on how corrections or adjustments could be made on the perceived weakness. Perhaps you didn't mean for that comment to be an attack, but it felt like one to me, and perhaps it was more cutting because I believe you to be a reasonable person who is an honest-to-goodness advocate for the industry. Even though I've held strong feeling about the issues I've posted here, I think [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/search.php?searchid=7508371"]if you look back at my posts on ENWorld[/URL] "relentless negativity" is an unfair commentary on my messages. You are free to disagree with my opinions. But please don't dismiss them with what appears to be a a subtle put down. One wouldn't insult Roger Ebert (famous movie critic in the U.S.) as being "relentlessly negative" because he rated many movies poorly. He was offering his honest opinion on the media of his choice. I try to do the same. [/QUOTE]
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