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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DinoInDisguise" data-source="post: 9749268" data-attributes="member: 7045806">Let's look at the post. Maybe I can demonstrate how tone works, based on how I read your post, seen below.Warning, this is parody meant to show how the tone might land to readers. How it landed to me, at least. It's only for demonstration so we clear up the confusion.[SPOILER="Parody"]Sometimes we frame our debates as if we are talking to children, giving them a little snapshot of time before they knew better. A time before they were wise to the ways of the world. Before they knew a fraction, a small fraction, of what we do.And we yammer on about how their creations, their creative works, their very ideas, all fit into these cute little buckets. Like little toys in a little toy box. Little trinkets of amusement. Little caricatures for their little fantasies.Yes for twenty years, everyone of those creations was so simple. So easy to understand. So easy to organize into stacks of little blocks. All of those silly little voices from that time before time. All of those silly ideas from time long ago.  All of them can be stacked neatly. Block by block by block. In a toy box.Yet, today. Today and today only. Or for some more enlightened, everyday. We have ideas far more grandiose, far more thoughtful and deep. Because we are enlightened, and they are all mindless robots playing mindless characters chasing the endless drudgery of simplistic combat.But I'm not enlightened, so Ill just go back to my cave and play my strong guy. Because I know no better.[/SPOILER]I exaggerated a bit, but I hope that helps clarify how someone could read it that way. Tone and phrasing are everything.</blockquote>

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