"Why can't you stop picking on 4th edition?!"

[Fifth Element]

Why is it that people posting on a message boards get so upset for anything at all?

D&D. Serious business.

 

[tenkar]

Why is it that people posting on a message boards get so upset for anything at all?

'Cause "keyboard muscles" are bigger then even "beer muscles"

 

[Rechan]

Why is it that people posting on a message boards get so upset for anything at all?

Opinion + Safe Zone (Home) + Inability to get punched in the nose when you're belligerent = Messageboard.

 

[Falling Icicle]

There's alot of passion on both sides of the issue. Why? Because we all care about the game enough to feel strongly about it.

 

[Remathilis]

Did you ever stop and consider that some of us LIKE the changes done to the game so far and are, in fact, expressing our opinion of consent to said changes?

In Before the Lock.

 

[Bongo Bigguns]

I guess the idea of emotionally investing in a profit-making company, its marketing and the employees trying to sell product, to the point of angrily defending and even imagining insults where none exist, is alien to me. Makes no sense.

 

[Rechan]

I guess the idea of emotionally investing in a profit-making company, its marketing and the employees trying to sell product, to the point of angrily defending and even imagining insults where none exist, is alien to me. Makes no sense.

But getting emotionally invested in an imaginary race created by that profit-making company and taking it personally when they're not included in one book that same profit-making company puts out makes perfect sense?

 

[The Ubbergeek]

I guess the idea of emotionally investing in a a classic game, its worlds and the authors who fleshened it, to the point of angrily defending and even imagining insults where none exist, is alien to me. Makes no sense.

Fixed.


Reported the thread anyway.

 

[Remathilis]

I guess the idea of emotionally investing in a profit-making company, its marketing and the employees trying to sell product, to the point of angrily defending and even imagining insults where none exist, is alien to me. Makes no sense.

True, but it exists. People DO put a lot of emotional investment into for-profit companies and the products that they like. Ever go on a car-related messageboard and watch GM and Ford people try to defend their chosen vehicle maker? Or the insanity of Original vs. Special Edition Star Wars fans? Loyalty to the brand makes people act differently. (See my sig).

 

[Bongo Bigguns]

But getting emotionally invested in gnomes and taking it personally when they're not included in a book makes perfect sense?

Perfect sense? No, silly.
But expressing disappointment that a pre-existing beloved aspect has been taken away does make more sense than someone else being angry at that same person for expressing his disappointment.