If you were a gamer, and assuming your gaming group wasn't completely insular, its patently ridiculous.
Where did I say I played P&P games then? I played games, card, board, and computer games. I was the second kid in our school to have a home computer, and the other was the Algerbra teacher's kid and they had no real interest in computers. Hrmm, so I guess I
did play RPGs before I played played D&D. Yup, I'm freaking ancient and I still played CRPGs before P&P. Of course I didn't really care much for CRPGs, and still don't. *shrug*
Now if I knew that other P&P games even existed? If I knew about Traveller I might have tried to find it. Who knows.
But my point was that media coverage, general or niche, tends to outreach some people's immediate surroundings. Hell there was even a TV movie of the week a number of years before I met anyone that played D&D. Of course my cousin almost played D&D once in the early 80's (a humourous story for another time), so I guess it was close to happening. *shrug* But such is the nature of news and entertainment media, it is what is
suppose to do.
With my other example Traveller, and it is just an example no slight ment by it, I've played P&P for quite some time now and still have to see it in action or talk to anyone in the flesh about it. Yet it has even made small appearances outside gaming media coverage.
Ironically, though I hadn't mentioned it before, in the course of playing "traditional" games I personally have run into people that have played other IPR games. I wouldn't expect that to translate to the norm of course or it being "patently ridiculous" or going around calling people liar based of absolutely fuck all. But hey, that's just me.
(though I would vernture as to guess it's a bald-faced lie).
You venture-out-your-ass wrong, again!
It's more that blakkie has made it abundantly clear as long as I've been posting here that his only role on this site is to basically make a hamfisted attempt at playing the role of one of Pundit's "Swine", and his backhanded little comment was an excellent example of the kind of shit he pulls all the time.
It wasn't backhanded at all. Of course you might see it that way if you intended your initial post to be backhanded or an attack.....which bring us back to you being a whining hypocritical kid.
So to sum up and wrap up, to your request for me to stop posting non-threaddumping, on-topic response to a post that you voluntarily are making I can only answer: Go get bent you "little cocksucker". :rolleyes: