Quote from: GeekEclectic on July 09, 2021, 03:22:09 PM
I doubt it's as huge a thing IRL as it is online - these things always seem bigger online for some reason

This is rule one of the modern world, and even the people that have learned it often forget it when they are online.

Quote from: HappyDaze on July 09, 2021, 03:38:26 PM
This is rule one of the modern world, and even the people that have learned it often forget it when they are online.

Yeah, I'm definitely guilty of this sometimes. Had a bit of a meltdown in another thread a few weeks ago, in fact. I think what I said was right and true, but my tone was definitely . . . something, and I know there were a couple places where I wasn't as careful with my wording as I could have been(I try to be very precise in my speech online, but sometimes I fail). I posted a response to clarify some things, again probably not with the best tone, but later I went and looked at my earlier post. And while I think I was mostly clear in the earlier post, I did see a couple spots where I was like "oh, yeah, I guess I can see why someone could take it that way." Lesson learned, I guess.

I wasn't even angry at any particular person. I think it was more how I keep seeing people - on all sides - just assuming and expecting the worst of people because of the effing game rules they like to use. In that thread, it was someone here assuming the worst of people who like some narrative stuff. In the blog post that this thread is about, it's someone in the SJW camp(or at least sympathetic to them) assuming the worst of the people already involved in the OSR. It just gets old, you know.