Just a guess, but I think the cross-pollenization may have started here...

http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewt ... 11&t=41533

Seems 50/50 on the like/dislike meter.

I'm sure if Saturncancer, or anyone else, wanted to buy something they'd get a job and pony up the money and buy it. The fact that some people can buy things and others can't is not going to change with jealousy, but it would change with hard work and better money management. Altruism is not something that DF is particularly known for, although ignorance often is. And with practically every TSR publication ever written freely available to everyone in the world to download off the internet, I don't imagine asking the lazy and the feckless to buy copies of Holmes Basic Boxed Sets is going to have any imapct of the hobby whatsoever. Feel free to vent you jealousy, There's nothing wrong with it. But at least recognise it for what it is. Otherwise you just perpetuate the image of ignorace your post projects.

Kingofpain89 wrote:Saunatonttu over on DF has made it well known that he isnt fond of "collectors" but I wouldn't think he would waste his time by coming over here just to stir shit up.  I've been wrong before though.

Nah, not likely.  This is the first I've heard of his unfondness for collectors, actually.  (Except those that abandon his cleric in a dungeon to die, naturally, but that only happened once!)

deimos3428 wrote:Nah, not likely.  This is the first I've heard of his unfondness for collectors, actually.

Unfortunately I dont have time to spend searching through all of the threads there looking for the specific post he made.  It was a few months ago.  He may have made the post in jest but it didnt seem like it then.  He may have been having a bad day and just felt like complaining.  Who knows.

bbarsh wrote:I was not suggesting it was anyone in particular or even a DF guy. Just that there is a coincidence...

I understand where you are coming from.  But there has been quite a bit of venom spewed back and forth lately between several members of both sites regarding L4.  It may be a case of drive-by douchebaggery and has nothing to do with anyone on DF.  I just dont see it being that cut-and-dried.

FormCritic wrote:You'd have to admit...if it was an attempt to troll the Acaeum it was a pretty mild example.

True, but it is still pathetic regardless of how it was done.  I may think that everyone that posts on Paizo's forums are idiots because they play Pathfinder (I don't...just an example) but I won't ever post there that I think that.  It's pointless, cowardly, and serves no other intent than to elicit a negative emotional response from the members...which as you say has worked fairly well.

I'm done with it.  Guilt trips don't work on me anyways.

drive-by douchebaggery. that is a great turn of phrase KOP!

So most of you are okay with the fact I own like 30+ copies of the Rules Cyclopedia?  Including a copy someone covered with red and black suede, black rabbit fur and pewter occult charms....

And no I'm not a print junkie, I just bought them any time I saw one for $25.00 or less.

Blackmoor wrote:
If you did this it was a good buy     These go routinely over $50 now

Yeah!  Right!  Because hoarding jerks like simrion drove up the price by not being altruistic enough!  

mbassoc2003 wrote:Acaeum members buying up all the copies of the Rules Cyclopedia would really piss that muppet off.

I'm in.

I suspect that our anti-hoarder friend doesn't actually buy anything any way.