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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 8359331" data-attributes="member: 22779"><p>[USER=18]@Ruin Explorer[/USER], I so rarely play video games I couldn't even begin to comment. So, I'll freely cop to my complete ignorance on the topic. Just from prior experience and whatnot, I'd say that when someone broadly calls a bunch of stuff "crap", it's saying far, far more about their personal tastes than anything about what the subject of their critique is. </p><p></p><p>But, again, just going from your rather one sided POV about how WotC's success is all "luck" and that they have done nothing to make it happen, it sounds to me like you've got a rather large axe to grind with WotC, rather than being interesting in things like actual facts. People have pointed all manner of things out to you showing how the current wave of WotC's success is due, in a very large part to the efforts of WotC itself. They've been laying the groundwork for this for over a decade and it's paying off.</p><p></p><p>Is there an element of chance here? Oh, of course. But, then, pointing to the "rise of nerdism" doesn't mean much when Harry Potter movies were over twenty years ago now, LotR was about the same, and the Marvel stuff started about twenty years ago as well. It's not like the "rise of nerdy stuff" is anything new. It's been a trend for a very long time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 8359331, member: 22779"] [USER=18]@Ruin Explorer[/USER], I so rarely play video games I couldn't even begin to comment. So, I'll freely cop to my complete ignorance on the topic. Just from prior experience and whatnot, I'd say that when someone broadly calls a bunch of stuff "crap", it's saying far, far more about their personal tastes than anything about what the subject of their critique is. But, again, just going from your rather one sided POV about how WotC's success is all "luck" and that they have done nothing to make it happen, it sounds to me like you've got a rather large axe to grind with WotC, rather than being interesting in things like actual facts. People have pointed all manner of things out to you showing how the current wave of WotC's success is due, in a very large part to the efforts of WotC itself. They've been laying the groundwork for this for over a decade and it's paying off. Is there an element of chance here? Oh, of course. But, then, pointing to the "rise of nerdism" doesn't mean much when Harry Potter movies were over twenty years ago now, LotR was about the same, and the Marvel stuff started about twenty years ago as well. It's not like the "rise of nerdy stuff" is anything new. It's been a trend for a very long time. [/QUOTE]
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