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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5105643" data-attributes="member: 22779">But how is that threadcrapping.We've been hearing for TEN FREAKING YEARS how D&D is videogamey.  This thread seems to be pretending that the exact same term was leveled at 3e for its entire run.  "Videogamey" has been used as a perjorative term for about a decade now.You can ignore that if you choose, but, come on.  Wide eyed innocence about why people would dismiss the term out of hand is hardly believable.  Perhaps it would be equally valid to say those who prefer older editions are engaging in wearing rose tinted nostalgia glasses.  After all, apparently I have no responsibility to actually explain my point.  It's apparently entirely your fault if you read that negatively.  I am in no way at fault for not giving an explanation.All the hot button phrases are lazy shorthand for people who cannot be bothered to actually make a valid point but just want to threadcrap.  They have no redeeming value.  At best they're vague and require additional information, which pretty much negates their value in the first place, and at worse they're deliberately obfuscatory and a way to edition war snipe under the mod radar.</blockquote>