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<blockquote data-quote="ReshiIRE" data-source="post: 9068426" data-attributes="member: 7031231"><p>Cold take: r/unpopularopinion is full of nasty people hiding behind having an ""unpopular"" opinion to be nasty to people they don't even want to try to understand. I wouldn't use it as a source of anything except how reddit can be a nasty community that doesn't give a crap about anyone and anything, and is so overconfident to be so incorrect. <em>I</em> firmly believe that the person in that OP probably hasn't actually attempted to cook anything in their life, or has had so much help and support growing up that they expect that their experience is the same as everyone else, because they couldn't emphasise with anyone who's even slightly shorter than them.</p><p></p><p>Related opinion: I don't feel that GMing is like cooking, because in a lot of cases there is not a reciepe to follow. There are instructions and techniques, and I guess you could count an Adventure Path as a recipe - but to me, GMing is a discipline that encompasses improve in acting and referring; lots of 'yes and'ing, taking what the other actors (players) give you, taking an initial scenario and going with the flow into different directions - and then adjudicating rule elements for fictional and gameplay purposes.</p><p></p><p>I am not an accomplished or good cook nor GM, I admit, but from my experience of both, cooking is much more structured, individual and repeatable than GMing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ReshiIRE, post: 9068426, member: 7031231"] Cold take: r/unpopularopinion is full of nasty people hiding behind having an ""unpopular"" opinion to be nasty to people they don't even want to try to understand. I wouldn't use it as a source of anything except how reddit can be a nasty community that doesn't give a crap about anyone and anything, and is so overconfident to be so incorrect. [I]I[/I] firmly believe that the person in that OP probably hasn't actually attempted to cook anything in their life, or has had so much help and support growing up that they expect that their experience is the same as everyone else, because they couldn't emphasise with anyone who's even slightly shorter than them. Related opinion: I don't feel that GMing is like cooking, because in a lot of cases there is not a reciepe to follow. There are instructions and techniques, and I guess you could count an Adventure Path as a recipe - but to me, GMing is a discipline that encompasses improve in acting and referring; lots of 'yes and'ing, taking what the other actors (players) give you, taking an initial scenario and going with the flow into different directions - and then adjudicating rule elements for fictional and gameplay purposes. I am not an accomplished or good cook nor GM, I admit, but from my experience of both, cooking is much more structured, individual and repeatable than GMing. [/QUOTE]
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