As you know I’ve been going through the inbox to answer asks and I have gotta say, the amount of antagonism directed at us for simple analysis of rules text as a thing that has meaning and even just responding to people who comment on our own posts is really egregious, like really shameful. Like, this is not acceptable or responsible social behavior from those of you commenting or sending us messages. If TTRPGs are really “just silly little games” to you, why do you get so fucking aggressive?
To me they’re art that someone made - and art that I make - its a machine that does something fun or interesting through the interaction of its parts. (Yes, a toy.) As someone who builds them and got into building them from playing with their functionality, I really like to examine their functionality and exercise and enact it, and it makes me sad to see a lack of appreciation - and even contempt - for the functionality.
What I’m observing and pointing out is that in the machine-that-does-fun-stuff fanbase there is a major zeitgeist of only buying these machines for the purpose of smashing them on the ground and doing a little dance on the pieces. It’s so pervasive that even people who make machines are starting to make them not to function but instead to be smashed apart, or making them with soft, brittle pieces with the expectation that they’ll be smashed apart anyway(meaning that for anyone who doesn’t want to smash it, it is likely to break down anyway).
I’m urging that you give these machines a try as a whole with their moving parts intact before you start smashing them, you might even find them more fun as toys when they’re being used as intended.
I’m telling you that if you wanted to do a little dance, you can do that without buying a machine and smashing it first, and your feet would even hurt less without chunks of plastic all over the ground.
To a not insignificant, and very vocal, subset of users, expressing this desire that my “silly little games” and the “silly little games” of my peers be used as intended, is tantamount to terrorism.
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