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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 8388174" data-attributes="member: 7023840">Sure! I mean, I like watching professional football. I also enjoyed throwing the pigskin around with friends....but I didn't think that my throwing the ball around with friends was the same as professional football. In fact, as someone who played (poorly) in school to a certain level of achievement, I am always panifully aware of how much better the professionals are. There are many things that people watch professionals do that can inspire them! Good for them; but watching (say) Gordon Ramsay chop up some quick vegetables and insult some diner owner doesn't mean that your burnt offerings of pop tarts are going to be the same.Look, I honestly do not understand why people who supposedly love the show are so ... determined to denigrate the achievements of the people who do it. More importantly, I truly believe that people don't realize just how much work (in terms of prep time, and in terms of talent + repetitions + hard work over the course of a life) goes into making something "look easy." "Yeah, that Tom Brady? I coulda won all those rings. No big deal. He just got lucky. Playing a game." YMMV. As it does. But I think it's almost tragic that Matt Mercer is so good at making people see what they believe is their idealized version of their home game, that many of them don't realize ... that it isn't their home game.</blockquote>