Something I only came to appreciate as an adult is that there's a wide gulf between a grown man with a past-time and a manchild whose life is his toys. There is a contingent of adults who are overly passionate about things like comic book plot continuity, the consistency of the fake science in Star Trek, obscure computations in RPGs, the DPS of various weapons in a video game, and so on. These people are almost invariably failures at life.
In D&D, there are a lot of these types. Come on, this is a hobby where public events have signs like, "We reserve the right to remove anyone from the premises who does not practice proper hygiene." I've learned to stay away from these types. Anyone who is going to get worked up about the lore for the Dire Wolf being totally wrong in some edition of D&D not only isn't going to be much fun in your party, he's also not going to be a decent person to be around.
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