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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KaosDevice" data-source="post: 2109695" data-attributes="member: 14172">Oh lordy, this thread was funny enough to make me feel both insulted and amused. Really, I suppose my hurt factor came out of the fact not that I had my spelling corrected (that was a big barb slinger back in the Fidonet days), but that I had posted a few things I thought were fairly erudite or insightful and had them completely disregarded.  I had been watching this forum off and on for quite some time (look at my join date vs. number of posts)  and thought it was a conversational sort of place. So I felt a tad wounded and disappointed (and ok sure, a little sour grapey, and really the spelling thing didn't bother me that much), when I wasn't allowed to play in the sand box with everyone else.Lose vs. loose...bfd. It was a pretty silly minor thing. The thing was the elitest exclusionary vibe I got out of the place. Which really disappointed me. I didn't see it coming and it blindsided me.I felt like I had as much to contribute as anyone else. I wanted to play, I wanted to talk with the rest of you, so when I finally jumped in, being pretty much ignored or what ever ..kinda hurt, just like it would to any other breathing person. On the end of all of the ASCII is someone else, you know who took the time out of their life to write this or that or make this or that observation. It is worthy of respect, YOU are worthy of respect for taking time to read this or write a response or a review of something else or whatever you write as part of the community. You took time to participate and communicate and that is important. And I took time to participate and communicate so I felt that was meaningful.Been on the 'net (and the pre-net for those that remember the Fido days), for quite some time so I dig the functionality of a good board. I thought there was one here, that's why I jumped in. I wanted to be part of it. So the dis level I felt after that jump in was bothersome. Look, I didn't want  to be revered or anything, I just wanted to talk to you. That was it, simple discussion.............For the cat that was asking who I wrote for; Pagan Publishing and Fantasy Flight(For Cthulhu Live)Wow, and who figured out I used to write for RPG.net? That is creepy, I didn't think anybody read those old Phobia columns.Oh and get off Kluge...he wasn't the reason for the inital post, just a symptom. I reckon he wrote that other attack style post because he himself felt attacked, I didn't post because of him (although correcting peoples' spelling is lame and very tired) but because of all of the above. I wish only the best for die_kluge.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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