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<blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 4371156" data-attributes="member: 2205">Sigh.&nbsp; Now who's telling whom how they think?&nbsp; I don't have any &quot;ire&quot; towards you or a beef with you and I'm not a &quot;huge 4e [fan?]&quot;&nbsp; I actually don't even like 4e.&nbsp; Or WoW.I'm just a bit irritated at passive aggressive behavior in general.Wikipedia isn't a psychology textbook.<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/ponder.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":hmm:" title="Hmmm&nbsp; &nbsp; :hmm:" data-shortname=":hmm:" />In any case, to address the main point of the thread, no of course WoW isn't the &quot;death of imagination&quot; (and whether intentional or not, that is insulting to say, because it strongly implies that WoW fans have less imagination.&nbsp; If you honestly don't mean to insult people and yet you say that, you have all the social awareness of a comatose wombat.)Certainly there are players who focus solely on the gamist aspects of WoW, and therefore don't &quot;imagine&quot; themselves as their character in the same way that D&amp;D players often think.Then again, that's been true of video/computer games from the get-go.&nbsp; You might as well say that Pac-Man is the death of imagination.&nbsp; It'd still be just as aburd, but it wouldn't be inconsistent, at least.&nbsp; Passive entertainment is never one that exercises the imagination.&nbsp; Creative entertainment exercises the imagination.&nbsp; To tweak Mallus a bit, don't go read Proust and listen to classical music, go write your own book and compose your own music if you want to exercise your imagination!In any case, it's fairly absurd to imply that just because someone enjoys passive entertainment that they don't exercise imagination plenty.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Desdichado, post: 4371156, member: 2205"] Sigh. Now who's telling whom how they think? I don't have any "ire" towards you or a beef with you and I'm not a "huge 4e [fan?]" I actually don't even like 4e. Or WoW. I'm just a bit irritated at passive aggressive behavior in general. Wikipedia isn't a psychology textbook.:hmm: In any case, to address the main point of the thread, no of course WoW isn't the "death of imagination" (and whether intentional or not, that is insulting to say, because it strongly implies that WoW fans have less imagination. If you honestly don't mean to insult people and yet you say that, you have all the social awareness of a comatose wombat.) Certainly there are players who focus solely on the gamist aspects of WoW, and therefore don't "imagine" themselves as their character in the same way that D&D players often think. Then again, that's been true of video/computer games from the get-go. You might as well say that Pac-Man is the death of imagination. It'd still be just as aburd, but it wouldn't be inconsistent, at least. Passive entertainment is never one that exercises the imagination. Creative entertainment exercises the imagination. To tweak Mallus a bit, don't go read Proust and listen to classical music, go write your own book and compose your own music if you want to exercise your imagination! In any case, it's fairly absurd to imply that just because someone enjoys passive entertainment that they don't exercise imagination plenty. [/QUOTE]

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