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Yeah, I want to discourage people from asking the naive question: "Why don't people solve <problem> for me?!" Do it yourself, or at least examine why you won't

Yeah, I want to discourage people from asking the naive question: "Why don't people solve <problem> for me?!" Do it yourself, or at least examine why you won't, and then recognize that the people involved are also humans, and many of those reasons you and others here have listed apply to these "special" people too. Discussion is nearly worthless; so many people can generate so much of it for so little cost, it must be worth basically nothing. There's far too much of it, and far too little action. This site is literally the social media arm of a startup accelerator, go start something up!

VikingCoder 4y ago
Is it better if I explicitly ask, "Can anyone shoot holes through this idea of mine? Has anyone else already done this? Is anyone else interested in helping me do this?" Or would that still warrant discouragement from you? Because, honestly, that's the tone I intended. And if you can't read that tone, maybe that's on you?
- SpeedilyDamage 4y ago
  Yeah as long as you’re not asking for other people to solve your problems, all good from me!
  - VikingCoder 4y ago
    Just to close the loop, in case you didn't know, the next biggest players in the Table-Top Role Playing Game World got together and did exactly what I was hoping for: > In addition to Paizo, Kobold Press, Chaosium, Legendary Games, and a growing list of publishers have already agreed to participate in the Open RPG Creative License, and in the coming days we hope and expect to add substantially to this group. This would be roughly akin to Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Rackspace announcing they would work together to fight some awful cloud computing initiative from Amazon. But thanks for angrily telling one dude on HN that he should be the one to lead the charge. Really great advice, thanks. https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6si7v?Paizo-Announces-SystemNeutral-Open-RPG-License https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6si7v?Paizo-Announc...

VikingCoder 4y ago

Is it better if I explicitly ask, "Can anyone shoot holes through this idea of mine? Has anyone else already done this? Is anyone else interested in helping me do this?" Or would that still warrant discouragement from you? Because, honestly, that's the tone I intended. And if you can't read that tone, maybe that's on you?

SpeedilyDamage 4y ago
Yeah as long as you’re not asking for other people to solve your problems, all good from me!
- VikingCoder 4y ago
  Just to close the loop, in case you didn't know, the next biggest players in the Table-Top Role Playing Game World got together and did exactly what I was hoping for: > In addition to Paizo, Kobold Press, Chaosium, Legendary Games, and a growing list of publishers have already agreed to participate in the Open RPG Creative License, and in the coming days we hope and expect to add substantially to this group. This would be roughly akin to Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Rackspace announcing they would work together to fight some awful cloud computing initiative from Amazon. But thanks for angrily telling one dude on HN that he should be the one to lead the charge. Really great advice, thanks. https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6si7v?Paizo-Announces-SystemNeutral-Open-RPG-License https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6si7v?Paizo-Announc...