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Originally Posted by Katsunami
What kind of a sneer is that? A hobby is a hobby is a hobby. Kozlowski/Moonshot or no, that was unnecessary. And yes, I feel spoken to.
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Originally Posted by jgaiser
Thank you... Being snotty about other peoples hobbies is pretty elitest.
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1. Having a hobby is no reason to lack a sense of humor about said hobby.
2. Who would know about lost hours playing an RPG but someone who shared that experience?
3. You confuse a point about someone's style of playing with a condemnation against their having played at all. The idea is that Kozlowski seems to argue with a view not only to winning but to triumphing by putting an opponent in their place. It's a style that I remember most vividly from my first and final Mensa meeting.
4. Charges of "sneering," "snottiness" and "elitism" are not limited to the intellectual snob. In this case,
your haste to condemn a gamer for supposedly disparaging other gamers reveals
you to be capable of sneering, and of actually hurling the kinds of epithets which you imagine were implied toward you.
The irony is that my mention of D&D was meant to be a nonjudgmental way of indicating that Kozlowski is a more concrete writer than moonshot. I don't happen to think that moonshot and Kozlowski are the same person.
Nor do I think that either person (or persona, to allude to another famous RPG series) should be made into a scapegoat. Nearly everyone feels that moonshot's conclusions are incorrect, but discussing them has been amusing.
Besides, a group consensus doesn't always translate into collective mercy.