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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 5991226" data-attributes="member: 59506">caveat: any "you", "I", "they", etc. in the following post is meant as a generic "you", etc., and not designating any specific person.   That last sentence of the above quote, I feel is the whole problem in a nutshell: people seeing it as that person prefers a machine to them. MMO's can be a social hobby as well, and they aren't necessarily saying the above assumption. Thay can just as well be saying, among other possibilities as well, "I want to hang out with people in a different environment than you prefer." It's not necessarily a personal insult towards anybody, and just as likely simply a preference for another environment. But when someone starts thinking of this in that manner (i.e.: feeling insulted that their friend prefers a machine to them), then that is definitely a sense of entitlement...a sense of entitlement about something which they are not entitled to. If one wants to spend time with their friend so much, why not go play the MMO with them...? Or is it a case of I don't like MMO's, so I'm not going to hang-out with that friend there (in which case your dislike of MMO's is more important than your friendship), or just a case of they don't want to hang out doing what I want to do, so they really aren't a friend...?<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/erm.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":erm:" title="Erm    :erm:" data-shortname=":erm:" /> Also, I find the quoted post quite confusing. This is from the same person that can't understand how customers would feel insulted by WotC for saying they can't be trusted and taking away pdf's; but now says they wouldn't be surprised if people felt insulted by a friend wanting to play MMO's rather than tabletop games... People's tastes change. People like variety. Friends will not always want to do what you want to do, or when you want to do it. Friendship is a two way street. You have to work at finding time to hang out, and yet at the same time, you do not have a right or entitlement to that friends time. If your friend no longer likes tabletop games, or maybe just not as much as you do, then meet them halfway. Go play an MMO with them...or not. Your friend likely has other friends also, and may be hanging out with them on an MMO. You are not entitled to a monopoly of their time, or entitled to any demands on their time. And if one feels insulted by that, then one has a lot of growing up yet to accomplish.</blockquote>

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