Why I Decided to Become an Elitist

[Kiroh]

Except for the fact that the OP typed up a novel making it sound like the world was against the poor elitists*, that they are the true victims due to having to deal with the dirty casual folk who laugh at the constant failures in games , have no desire to better themselves, who merely want handouts, who won't bother trying to better themselves. The struggle! It was a poorly written, and very sensationalized piece of work. And it got a lot of bandwagoners.

You know as well as I do that there are absolutely people out there who have no desire to better themselves and refuse to take any advice. There are only so many times a person can be expected to tolerate being attacked because they're trying to give someone advice, I understand where the OP's frustration with this is coming from.

There are also a lot of people who post on the forums exactly the same thing with the roles reversed and all you hear is people cheering them on. "Yeah, screw elitists! They don't run the game!", but when someone is tired of wiping to a mechanic they've already explained 10 times and leaves the group it's "Why do people always drop? How am I supposed to get this done if no one is willing to run it for me! Learning groups take too long to form!" and again all they get is praise. If you even suggest they should try to watch a video or practice in DF or start a learning group, you're suddenly the worst thing since Hitler.

So when people experience exactly this kind of abuse we should suck it up because "Oh they were probably just trolls" or "that's just anecdotal personal experience that you've been through several times a month, our experience is more valid."

I'm glad the OP posted this, because honestly a lot of the people who cry "elitist" are people who treat other players like their personal paid clear groups.