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5e and the Cheesecake Factory: Explaining Good Enough
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<blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 8203352" data-attributes="member: 16814"><p>This is... not very true and spoken like someone that's has little exposure to the arts, or, rather, perhaps too much exposure to post-modern deconstruction.</p><p></p><p>I'm lousy at arts outside of being a decent miniature painter (some days). I'm working on being better, though, and watch a number of channels on minis painting, and there's absolutely some non-subjective measures of quality. Lack of visible brushstrokes is a big one. Good blending, good use of contrast, etc. Whether or not I like a given miniature, though, is subjective, but I can absolutely give you some feedback on the quality of the painting (although you might want someone more experienced) regardless of if I like or dislike the mini.</p><p></p><p>Also, while I cannot carry a tune in a bucket, my son is a rather gifted trumpet player (waiting to see if he's gotten in to one of the top music conservatories in the nation, fingers crossed). There's absolutely measures of quality to a performance there, ones I've learned and some that still escape me (although Boy can tell you all about them). This even goes for pieces that I absolutely hate, that sound like noise to me. Boy can listen to these and marvel, because the quality (he tells me) is amazing and the piece is insanely difficult. I hate that stuff (the modern atonal stuff), but I recognize there's still quite a lot of quality playing there.</p><p></p><p>Utility or preference is not the same thing as quality.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ovinomancer, post: 8203352, member: 16814"] This is... not very true and spoken like someone that's has little exposure to the arts, or, rather, perhaps too much exposure to post-modern deconstruction. I'm lousy at arts outside of being a decent miniature painter (some days). I'm working on being better, though, and watch a number of channels on minis painting, and there's absolutely some non-subjective measures of quality. Lack of visible brushstrokes is a big one. Good blending, good use of contrast, etc. Whether or not I like a given miniature, though, is subjective, but I can absolutely give you some feedback on the quality of the painting (although you might want someone more experienced) regardless of if I like or dislike the mini. Also, while I cannot carry a tune in a bucket, my son is a rather gifted trumpet player (waiting to see if he's gotten in to one of the top music conservatories in the nation, fingers crossed). There's absolutely measures of quality to a performance there, ones I've learned and some that still escape me (although Boy can tell you all about them). This even goes for pieces that I absolutely hate, that sound like noise to me. Boy can listen to these and marvel, because the quality (he tells me) is amazing and the piece is insanely difficult. I hate that stuff (the modern atonal stuff), but I recognize there's still quite a lot of quality playing there. Utility or preference is not the same thing as quality. [/QUOTE]
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