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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 1623264" data-attributes="member: 8461">I'm strongly in support of the FLGS. For me, there are many (personal) reasons to prefer them over shopping online.I enjoy the amicability of my FLGS. I like it that I can go in and greet the guy behind the counter by his first name (and be greeted as such). I like that I can usually strike up a conversation with some of the other people in there.I like not having to wait. If I see something I like, I can pick it up immediately and go home with it.I like that I can usually browse through things, letting me know if its something I want or want to pass on, much better than an internet summary could.I like that the FLGS has more than just games. I read quite a few comics, and I depend on my FLGS for these as much as I do RPG books. I'd have a much harder time getting these elsewhere, as its difficult to find many of them to order online, and even harder still to ask someone knowledgeable about them specific questions about certain issues, etc.Also, I don't feel that just saying "it's capitalism" is an acceptable reason to justify letting the little stores die out. Capitalism is economic darwinism, but we don't encourage social darwinism - we don't want people to live in a society where the strong survive by preying on the weaker people; it seems odd to decry that in one sense of society, and embrace it in one that's only somewhat different. I'm not saying we should abandon capitalism in whole, or even in part (I still get my groceries at the supermarket like everyone else), but just writing off the death of the small stores as part of the capitalist process, shrugging our shoulders, and moving on, is more cold than I can bring myself to be.</blockquote>

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