Different RPG systems

[Theoboldi]

And Grognards/OSR players and players of modern versions still battle over who is playing the better/more mature/more skillful game while at the same time calling the other condescending. And D&D players and players of all other games battle over who is playing it right and who is being a jerk. There’s even some in some circles that continue to suggest that storygames and the related genre aren’t TTRPGs at all. It seems a reinforcement of the truisms that the closest of cousins are the bitterest of rivals and the smaller the stakes the higher the vitriol (and one I’ve been slowly formulating, that is something along the lines of ‘forget the jocks in high school, no one is worse to nerds than other nerds’).

Oh believe me, I've spent some time around OSR-focused communities. The arrogance can be staggering at times. People building up a playstyle of roleplaying games until it sounds more like a philosophy of life, just so they can put down anything else that is popular and feel like the most enlightened gamers ever. And of course those people who act in that worst way are also the loudest, allowing those ideas to spread elsewhere and making jerks on other ends of the aisle feel justified....

You're quite right that it's the same old everywhere. Just petty clique-building and infighting. It's all honestly pretty tiring to see over and over again.