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Critical Role: Overrated, Underrated, or Goldilocks?
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<blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 8389938" data-attributes="member: 7023840"><p>"People seem much more interested in taking analogies apart, identifying what doesn’t work, and discarding them rather than — more generously and constructively IMO — using them as the author intended to better understand the subject matter. The perfect metaphor doesn’t exist because then it wouldn’t be a metaphor."</p><p></p><p>To the extent people keep ascribing positions to me that I do not hold, such as "You are forever barred from learning anything from Critical Role," I will simply point out that this is both annoying and frustrating.</p><p></p><p>A few posts before this, [USER=6796241]@OB1[/USER] did the same thing by demanding that I answer a whole bunch of leading questions (and I wish I was making this up) and ended by asking:</p><p><em>And even if that is what you believe, if you enjoy something that you see done on CritRole and bring that to your game, is that somehow wrong?</em></p><p></p><p>To which I have already responded:</p><p><em>Of course not. That's a profoundly weird thing to ask.</em></p><p></p><p>This whole experience has taught me one valuable lesson- I might have the utmost respect for the amazing talents of the people who make <em>Critical Role</em>, but ... boy, fans suck. So hard. So very very hard.</p><p></p><p>I would have been better off discussing <em>Last Jedi </em>or the relative merits of Pokemon or maybe just have a reasonable discussion about whether or not Teslas are good.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snarf Zagyg, post: 8389938, member: 7023840"] "People seem much more interested in taking analogies apart, identifying what doesn’t work, and discarding them rather than — more generously and constructively IMO — using them as the author intended to better understand the subject matter. The perfect metaphor doesn’t exist because then it wouldn’t be a metaphor." To the extent people keep ascribing positions to me that I do not hold, such as "You are forever barred from learning anything from Critical Role," I will simply point out that this is both annoying and frustrating. A few posts before this, [USER=6796241]@OB1[/USER] did the same thing by demanding that I answer a whole bunch of leading questions (and I wish I was making this up) and ended by asking: [I]And even if that is what you believe, if you enjoy something that you see done on CritRole and bring that to your game, is that somehow wrong?[/I] To which I have already responded: [I]Of course not. That's a profoundly weird thing to ask.[/I] This whole experience has taught me one valuable lesson- I might have the utmost respect for the amazing talents of the people who make [I]Critical Role[/I], but ... boy, fans suck. So hard. So very very hard. I would have been better off discussing [I]Last Jedi [/I]or the relative merits of Pokemon or maybe just have a reasonable discussion about whether or not Teslas are good. [/QUOTE]
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