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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 8830315" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>I understand it can be frustrating. I'm getting older and I am sometimes surprised by peoples sense of things. Outside of gaming, I was just involved in an online discussion about guitar tone and there were a lot of younger people very hostile to some of the ideas I was bringing to the discussion about the sorts of guitar tones I appreciated in the late 80s and early 90s. But I also understood they grew up literally listening to music on a different medium than me, and that music is recorded completely different. So their tastes aren't going to be the same and it is going to be hard for them to understand the context when they are talking about stuff that happened from an era they didn't live through. But I think staying positive is pretty important in these discussions because mostly people are just coming from a place of enthusiasm. </p><p></p><p>One, it is just a youtube video from someone who is excited about a rule he hadn't heard about before. I think talking about the text is fair. And unless I am missing something he quoted it accurately, he sourced it. And it isn't like there weren't people who played this way. If he asked around, which he may well have, he would probably get ten different answers and people who remembered things differently from one another. </p><p></p><p>I also think we have to keep in mind we were just operating in our own narrow sphere at the time. I am constantly amazed how different peoples descriptions are of the time when I was getting into gaming, and how different their reactions and attitudes were to the game lines I liked. </p><p></p><p>Also you can't expect a person who wasn't there, who is exploring these things, to have an omnipotent understanding of the past. They are mostly going to be going by text, by what they see people say online, and what what narratives are out there about how things were done. But I wouldn't want to kill someone's enthusiasm by getting angry that they got some detail wrong or they missed some context that only a person who was there might know. I think it's better to share that with them in a positive way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 8830315, member: 85555"] I understand it can be frustrating. I'm getting older and I am sometimes surprised by peoples sense of things. Outside of gaming, I was just involved in an online discussion about guitar tone and there were a lot of younger people very hostile to some of the ideas I was bringing to the discussion about the sorts of guitar tones I appreciated in the late 80s and early 90s. But I also understood they grew up literally listening to music on a different medium than me, and that music is recorded completely different. So their tastes aren't going to be the same and it is going to be hard for them to understand the context when they are talking about stuff that happened from an era they didn't live through. But I think staying positive is pretty important in these discussions because mostly people are just coming from a place of enthusiasm. One, it is just a youtube video from someone who is excited about a rule he hadn't heard about before. I think talking about the text is fair. And unless I am missing something he quoted it accurately, he sourced it. And it isn't like there weren't people who played this way. If he asked around, which he may well have, he would probably get ten different answers and people who remembered things differently from one another. I also think we have to keep in mind we were just operating in our own narrow sphere at the time. I am constantly amazed how different peoples descriptions are of the time when I was getting into gaming, and how different their reactions and attitudes were to the game lines I liked. Also you can't expect a person who wasn't there, who is exploring these things, to have an omnipotent understanding of the past. They are mostly going to be going by text, by what they see people say online, and what what narratives are out there about how things were done. But I wouldn't want to kill someone's enthusiasm by getting angry that they got some detail wrong or they missed some context that only a person who was there might know. I think it's better to share that with them in a positive way. [/QUOTE]
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