of course opinions matter, but frequently they are just that, opinions, not facts. Heck, even when there are actual facts, many opinions ignore them and are contradicted by them.
Here, there is no actual fact to push back against, it is all opinion / personal taste.
Just like you can like music I would not voluntarily listen to, I can find the picture to fall into superhero imagery rather than fantasy, want it to be grittier, or do not think she should wear glasses. To me these are all valid options, some of which I agree with. They are just as valid as liking the art for whatever reason you give.
The difference, as @ezo said, is that the criticisms got a lot of back and forth while the ones who liked it were accepted and did not get pushback, despite both being equally valid and acceptable.
It is fine to say you disagree with someone’s opinion, I reserve the right to do the same. I don’t think we needed 100 pages of back and forth about glasses though, and as far as I can tell, not a single opinion was changed (which is not surprising, it is hard enough to do that when there are objective facts involved…)
I really did not say what you think I did.Again, that's not the issue.
It's the REPEATED statement that you don't like it, for a STATED reason, then insisting that just because it's an "opinion" everyone has to accept it and never ask any questions. As if somehow making something an opinion confers some special status that makes it immune to discussion.
What's the point of stating an opinion on a discussion board, then repeatedly doubling down on the opinion, but then refusing to actually discuss the opinion? I'm sorry, but, if you state that X is "the worst Y ever", that's going to need a bit more than, "well it's just my opinion, why can't you accept that?"
I mean, if I stated, "In my opinion, Advanced Dungeons and Dragons isn't actually a roleplaying game. It's a wargame pretending to be a roleplaying game and it's not until we get to 3rd edition D&D that we actually started having a real roleplaying game." I would likely get a fair bit of push back. And rightfully so. That's an statement that's going to need some clarification and expanding. Yet, apparently, sticking IMO on the front of that means no one can ever disagree with me? That everyone must just accept my opinion?
Bugger that.
And therefore you are a superhero. Strike a pose and go fight some crime.I would like to post a critique on the issue of criticism, but unfortunately I have misplaced my glasses...
agreed, I don't think I ever did get upset. Not sure if someone else did get upset about people disagreeing with them either, the one case I can think of I thought was more about repeatedly being asked to justify their opinion than about people disagreeing with itSure, you can say that the imagery is too superhero. And I can say it is not. But you then can't get upset with me
and next you tell me that the Son of God is not at a minimum a superheroAnd to clarify more on my stance of the "superhero" pose. Supposedly it is superheroic because the person is
a) Floating
B) their arms are mostly outstretched
Well....
Our classes are very discussion-based, so I share this video with my students at the start of the year (I hope it is forum-appropriate):I just wanted to remind everyone that it is ok to not like something for reasons you can't describe.
And that such dislikes are not helpful when discussing something and that they are not helpful at all for a discussion forum.
I salute this display of true, in-depth, obstructive nerdery. I have been there so I cannot judge it too harshly.Lots of people living in lots of places with names that are not traditional to that place who speak like the locals.
Lots of people living in lots of places who are expats and retain their accents.
I've also met a lot of people from various countries who speak with a native English, American, or Australian accent when they speak English. My wife didn't come to the US until college but when she speaks English, you'd think she grew up in the American midwest.
I think increased ability to move around the world and even more advanced communications in Star Trek's future would make all of the above even more common.