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== Tabletop Games ==
* In ''[[Paranoia]]'', the mission debriefing tends to devolve into ''[[Blame Game|everyone]]'' [[Blame Game|doing this at once]].
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' 4e mostly failed (as in, drowned in maelstrom of retroclones and d20 OGL products) because... [http://yarukizerogames.com/2013/04/01/dd-4es-influences-and-problems/ of the gamers who discussed D&D3.x!] If no one pointed out its bugs, and everyone just praised it, the developers and managers (who for their next number had ''voting on WotC site for specific isolated features one by one'') would ''surely'' get their concepts articulate and coherent - [http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Eladrin needless random mashing of terms from previous editions] and widely ridiculed gems like [http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Bloody_Path nonsensical arcade elements] or "[[CamelCase|GloomGloom]]" [[I Don't Like the Sound of That Place|naming scheme]] being, somehow, side effects of making the game non-optimizable (wait, who even said it could - much less should - be a ''good thing''?).
** In the same vein, [[Forgotten Realms]] was effectively erased and replaced with another setting under the same name, with some names borrowed (see the creativity problem above). This didn't roll well with most old fans (set heavily intersecting with "the ones who ''have money to buy stuff''"). Whose fault that could be?.. Cue the loud astroturfing (which touched even tvtropes) that shifted on Ed Greenwood blame for all and any stupid stunts that were ever done by TSR/Wizards' editors to his novels<ref>''Spellfire'' was [[Executive Meddling|"trimmed"]] until the plot was [[Plot Hole|cut into disconnected pieces]]. Later he was told to fix their mess within specified word count - ''and then it was cut again, beyond their own limit''.</ref>, whole series of books<ref>Like [http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1888&whichpage=7#36407 characters being one-arc, except the few "prominent" ones].</ref> and Realms in general, often despite loud protests of himself and other authors, which all was publically clarified years ago. E.g. frog-marched in limelight to death and beyond - which is because [[Creator's Pet|Authors Luvs Them]] - even though it was common knowledge in the fan circles for years that Ed consistently expresses desire to (and ''does'', as much as he can) write about relatively "common" folk rather than Elminster; it's less clear, but often suspected [http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12023&whichpage=53#262993 about Salvatore and Drizzt] too. Same goes for Ed cosplaying as Elminster at a convention (at TSR request).
== Theater ==
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