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<blockquote data-quote="Ourph" data-source="post: 5136142" data-attributes="member: 20239">I won't deny that there are edition-warriors and haters who also esteem (or at least claim to esteem) OS games. But I don't think the &quot;resurgence&quot; or &quot;revival&quot; or &quot;rennaissance&quot; (whatever you want the &quot;R&quot; to mean) is based on that kind of negativity. I don't think we would have seen a new publishing genre develop around a community whose only unifying feature was &quot;Game X sucks&quot;. The unifying feature is &quot;Game A rocks!&quot; and the &quot;Game X sucks&quot; aspect is a vocal minority that people tend to pay attention to because they're being provocative and rude.In fact, a bitter gamer sitting at his keyboard typing about how much 2e or 3e or 4e sucks is, IMO, the antithesis of the OSR. The OSR is about people being excited about OS games, playing OS games, writing about OS games, making new products for OS games and buying the new stuff. If someone is spending all of their time talking about how much 3e or 4e sucks, they are, QED, not talking about the positive aspects of OS games and therefore not part of any kind of &quot;revival&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ourph, post: 5136142, member: 20239"] I won't deny that there are edition-warriors and haters who also esteem (or at least claim to esteem) OS games. But I don't think the "resurgence" or "revival" or "rennaissance" (whatever you want the "R" to mean) is based on that kind of negativity. I don't think we would have seen a new publishing genre develop around a community whose only unifying feature was "Game X sucks". The unifying feature is "Game A rocks!" and the "Game X sucks" aspect is a vocal minority that people tend to pay attention to because they're being provocative and rude. In fact, a bitter gamer sitting at his keyboard typing about how much 2e or 3e or 4e sucks is, IMO, the antithesis of the OSR. The OSR is about people being excited about OS games, playing OS games, writing about OS games, making new products for OS games and buying the new stuff. If someone is spending all of their time talking about how much 3e or 4e sucks, they are, QED, not talking about the positive aspects of OS games and therefore not part of any kind of "revival". [/QUOTE]

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