Dr. Strangemonkey
First Post
Hmm, were I to parse that definition of Academic Plague it would run:
Some people are having wrong bad fun. Some people are not. This is bad, cause its wrong bad fun.
No offense, but if you are working on a definition of Academic Plague the argument's lost a lot of its Ethos.
Oh, I'm sorry credibility.
Whoops, integrity.
Um, merit?
huh, value?
gee, uh, purty sheen?
Was the point to talk about the theory or the problem? Cause we can talk about the problems of the RPG industry or we can bad-mouth pseudo intellectuals. One of them seems to be useful the other not so much. Particularly since pseudo-intellectuals do seem to buy RPGs. One might argue that some form of intellectual is the only kind of person who ever has.
RPGs don't exactly have the universal appeal of snap-bracelets.
'Cause it would certainly be impossible to describe DnD to someone without at some point without using jargon like attack rolls, do those go with dinner or breakfast, or armor class, 101 or graduate level? registration's on Friday, challenge rating, sounds like a reality show, and lord forbid the kid actually shows up and hears a word like 'eldritch.' A word 'made up' by an author who never made the New York Times list until long after his death. Obviously a failed novelist and thus an orginal carrier of the plague.
Good gawd, best call the doctor the kid's been infected. If left untreated he could do things like score above 600 on the verbal portion of the SAT.
Or is the problem that you can't actually be infected by an Academic Plague* so changing the words to something simple would draw a lot away from the argument?
*Unless of course, you subscribe to mimetism. In which case you should certainly apply to graduate school. Or go off to live in a pseudo-intellectual colony, they're sort of like Leper colonies except the rent is really high and the jazz is slightly better.
Some people are having wrong bad fun. Some people are not. This is bad, cause its wrong bad fun.
No offense, but if you are working on a definition of Academic Plague the argument's lost a lot of its Ethos.
Oh, I'm sorry credibility.
Whoops, integrity.
Um, merit?
huh, value?
gee, uh, purty sheen?
Was the point to talk about the theory or the problem? Cause we can talk about the problems of the RPG industry or we can bad-mouth pseudo intellectuals. One of them seems to be useful the other not so much. Particularly since pseudo-intellectuals do seem to buy RPGs. One might argue that some form of intellectual is the only kind of person who ever has.
RPGs don't exactly have the universal appeal of snap-bracelets.
'Cause it would certainly be impossible to describe DnD to someone without at some point without using jargon like attack rolls, do those go with dinner or breakfast, or armor class, 101 or graduate level? registration's on Friday, challenge rating, sounds like a reality show, and lord forbid the kid actually shows up and hears a word like 'eldritch.' A word 'made up' by an author who never made the New York Times list until long after his death. Obviously a failed novelist and thus an orginal carrier of the plague.
Good gawd, best call the doctor the kid's been infected. If left untreated he could do things like score above 600 on the verbal portion of the SAT.
Or is the problem that you can't actually be infected by an Academic Plague* so changing the words to something simple would draw a lot away from the argument?
*Unless of course, you subscribe to mimetism. In which case you should certainly apply to graduate school. Or go off to live in a pseudo-intellectual colony, they're sort of like Leper colonies except the rent is really high and the jazz is slightly better.
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(This last is, I hope a joke.)
