And you should know that not lumping all TTRPGs with D&D is something I care about.
And you should know that not lumping all TTRPGs with D&D is something I care about.
Of course I do. However that's not what your post said. If you'd said something about lumping everything else together under "and gaming" being unfair, then I would have agreed. I disagreed because you said that the sign suggested they were all D&D, which it clearly doesn't.
The original post has a clown emoji to indicate a degree of sarcasm. But then you mention that general bookstores are allowed to miscategorise things. After that, the argument has drifted away from the accuracy of my original post.
Clown usually means stupidity - I read it that you thought the store was being stupid. I did not say they can miscategorise things. I said that D&D, well known, gets used (as here) to help explain a category (many don't know more specific terms). It's not a specialist gaming shop.
The "& Gaming" means nothing is miscategorised. All I did (beyond being confused by what you said your OP) was suggest why they've name dropped D&D. Whether they should do that is a different argument. If this was in a specialist shop I'd be unhappy, but in a general bookshop... /shrug.
Ultimately, they have not done what you claimed they had in your post, and that's all I've argued, besides offering reasons why D&D got a name drop.
The original post ulitlised hyperbole and sarcasm. It is belittling to have a whole medium being minimised to its most popular example. Other than CLANK, all the games are TTRPGs or TTRPG-adjacent (Gloomhaven is a dungeon crawler). They literally wanted to say TTRPG and decided not to. 🤷🏻