The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Old Fezziwig]

If "pineapple on pizza" is a metaphor for personal preferences in D&D, I wonder what "wasp eggs in figs" would be a metaphor for? What would be something unintentional and unpleasant, but you didn't actually mind it until someone called attention to it?

It goes beyond that, though, right? It'd have to be something unintentional and unpleasant that you didn't actually mind until someone called attention to it that was also integral to the entire experience. Like, no fig wasps means no figs.

 

[Cadence]

It goes beyond that, though, right? It'd have to be something unintentional and unpleasant that you didn't actually mind until someone called attention to it that was also integral to the entire experience. Like, no fig wasps means no figs.

I will not link directly to the obvious ttRPG thread that has this. I will not link to the obvious ttRPG thread that has this...

 

[Old Fezziwig]

I will not link directly to the obvious ttRPG thread that has this. I will not link to the obvious ttRPG thread that has this...

I admit I thought of some examples that were less than charitable.

 

[Amrûnril]

Why do half of the posts on this topic seem to revolve around a specific youtuber's opinions? When someone on the forum makes a good point, we don't treat their name as a substitute for their argument, and we don't expect people posting in a different thread to be familiar with it. What makes a youtube video more worthy of deference?

If you think there are ideas in a youtube video supporting your view, make an argument based on those ideas. Don't expect other posters to watch a half hour video, and don't expect them to treat the ideas in that video as any more reliable than the ideas presented in the thread itself.

 

[payn]

Why do half of the posts on this topic seem to revolve around a specific youtuber's opinions? When someone on the forum makes a good point, we don't treat their name as a substitute for their argument, and we don't expect people posting in a different thread to be familiar with it. What makes a youtube video more worthy of deference?

If you think there are ideas in a youtube video supporting your view, make an argument based on those ideas. Don't expect other posters to watch a half hour video, and don't expect them to treat the ideas in that video as any more reliable than the ideas presented in the thread itself.

Because they make youtube vids??? I find it puzzling too. More than once I've been told to check out a vid. I look at the title and its some variation of "This opinion is a battle of good and evil, and you are a stupid idiot if you are on the wrong side". When I say that im not going to watch that, "...but dude the wisdom contained within!!!"

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Why do half of the posts on this topic seem to revolve around a specific youtuber's opinions? When someone on the forum makes a good point, we don't treat their name as a substitute for their argument, and we don't expect people posting in a different thread to be familiar with it. What makes a youtube video more worthy of deference?

Weirdly, I would say that invoking a youtube video makes an opinion less worthy of deference.

There a handful of good things on youtube- weird people doing God's work by shooting instructional videos on how to fix water heaters. Ze Frank. And maybe a handful of halfway decent sources of information and/or infotainment (SciShow for example, or Wendover). Oh, and watching Greg get absolutely hammered on How to Drink.

Other than that, it's a vast wasteland of underinformed people with Hawt Taeks that are underbaked at best, stupidly dangerous at worst.

 

[CleverNickName]

 

[payn]

Other than that, it's a vast wasteland of underinformed people with Hawt Taeks that are underbaked at best, stupidly dangerous at worst.

Oh, but they have to be that way. It's how the algorithm works.

 

[Cadence]

You don't read much science fiction (or the news, or history, or fantasy) do you.

And you, in the other thread from that one. What part of "Your Pizza Place Will NEVER EVER Have Any Of The Good Stuff." don't you understand. How have you been conversing for so long and not figured out that it doesn't matter what you say or show or do or define or try or anything. "YOUR PIZZA IS, WAS, AND ALWAYS WILL BE SUB-PAR". Why you ask? May God have mercy on your soul (apparently).

 

[Gradine]

It's interesting in that there are a number of vocal (and often somewhat toxic) fanbases that manage to lessen my enjoyment or appreciation of a product.

In their defense, they weren't born that way, but were instead forged through the endless venomous trials of others.

I'm not directly comparing them to Daenerys Targaryen. But I'm not not doing it.