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<blockquote data-quote="mhacdebhandia" data-source="post: 4366992" data-attributes="member: 18832"><p>To even <strong>suggest</strong> that people who play <em>World of Warcraft</em> are somehow <strong>depleted of some quantitative unit of imaginative faculty</strong>, as Mercurius does here:</p><p></p><p></p><p>. . . is completely and utterly stupid. Mind-meltingly so.</p><p></p><p>Is Mercurius a neuroscientist? Has he identified the regions of the brain that make "imagination" function, and shown through peer-reviewed research that <em>World of Warcraft</em> is detrimental to these parts of the brain?</p><p></p><p>"Long-term play . . . can be highly detrimental to one's imagination" is a <strong>baseless statement</strong>, made with <strong>no backing whatsoever</strong>. </p><p></p><p>Mercurius spent the rest of his post <strong>asserting his conclusion</strong> (that <em>D&D</em> is a more imagination-encouraging game than <em>World of Warcraft</em>). He doesn't <strong>support</strong> these statements - he simply says them, as if they were fact, and expects you to agree and follow his conclusion simply because he said it.</p><p></p><p>He then claims that he's <strong>not</strong> saying what he <strong>actually is</strong>:</p><p></p><p></p><p>This quote <strong>makes no sense</strong> in the context of his statement earlier that the "imaginative faculty" of <em>WoW</em> players is lessened, especially over the long term. Either Mercurius doesn't know what he wants to say, or he's lying here to cover his butt.</p><p></p><p>Mercurius uses weasel wording - "I don't think it's a stretch to conjecture" - after admitting that he can't actually <strong>prove</strong> his conjecture. He then, however, goes on to make the rest of his post assuming that his conjecture is true, and drawing vast and damning conclusions about the negative effects of <em>WoW</em> on something he considers to be of "such importance to the quality of human existence".</p><p></p><p>It's a pile of crap as tall as the Empire State Building, and not even one-millionth as well-constructed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mhacdebhandia, post: 4366992, member: 18832"] To even [b]suggest[/b] that people who play [i]World of Warcraft[/i] are somehow [b]depleted of some quantitative unit of imaginative faculty[/b], as Mercurius does here: . . . is completely and utterly stupid. Mind-meltingly so. Is Mercurius a neuroscientist? Has he identified the regions of the brain that make "imagination" function, and shown through peer-reviewed research that [i]World of Warcraft[/i] is detrimental to these parts of the brain? "Long-term play . . . can be highly detrimental to one's imagination" is a [b]baseless statement[/b], made with [b]no backing whatsoever[/b]. Mercurius spent the rest of his post [b]asserting his conclusion[/b] (that [i]D&D[/i] is a more imagination-encouraging game than [i]World of Warcraft[/i]). He doesn't [b]support[/b] these statements - he simply says them, as if they were fact, and expects you to agree and follow his conclusion simply because he said it. He then claims that he's [b]not[/b] saying what he [b]actually is[/b]: This quote [b]makes no sense[/b] in the context of his statement earlier that the "imaginative faculty" of [i]WoW[/i] players is lessened, especially over the long term. Either Mercurius doesn't know what he wants to say, or he's lying here to cover his butt. Mercurius uses weasel wording - "I don't think it's a stretch to conjecture" - after admitting that he can't actually [b]prove[/b] his conjecture. He then, however, goes on to make the rest of his post assuming that his conjecture is true, and drawing vast and damning conclusions about the negative effects of [i]WoW[/i] on something he considers to be of "such importance to the quality of human existence". It's a pile of crap as tall as the Empire State Building, and not even one-millionth as well-constructed. [/QUOTE]
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