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<blockquote data-quote="Set" data-source="post: 4418635" data-attributes="member: 41584">And this is rife is almost all human interactions.&nbsp;I say something about Star Trek, and *somebody* is going to chime in with 'oh, but on Memory-Alpha...' If it's Star Wars, I've got the same thing going on, and it's nearly impossible for a conversation about Star Wars to not have mentions of Expanded Universe characters like Mara Jade or Leia and Han's kids or whatever. If it's football, there's gonna be someone who knows why the Favre deal made sense and I'm a doof for not seeing it. If it's 'portrayal of women in fantasy art' someone's gonna walk in with a degree in Women's Studies and a list of historical references. If it's some off-handed comment about Frodo being a whiny twit who should have handed the ring to Sam and gone home, a dozen Tolkein scholars are gonna show up to argue that. If it's an equally thoughtless comment about katana being better or worse than western broadswords, you can bet your booties that ten thousand screaming metallurgist/historians/bladesmith/samurai are going to leap out, swords swinging.&nbsp;The Realms isn't the problem here.&nbsp;The problem is that some people know more than other people about their topics of interest, and some of those people are kinda pedantic and some of the people they are talking to have zero patience for having something that *they aren't as passionate about* explained to them.&nbsp;It's people.&nbsp;Blow up the Realms all you want, it's not going to make talking to comic-book fans, political activists, car nuts or that dude who won't shut up about how much weight he lost on Atkins any more tolerable to be around.&nbsp;No amount of Realms-Shattering Events are gonna make other human beings easier to be around.&nbsp; Might wanna learn to live with them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Set, post: 4418635, member: 41584"] And this is rife is almost all human interactions. I say something about Star Trek, and *somebody* is going to chime in with 'oh, but on Memory-Alpha...' If it's Star Wars, I've got the same thing going on, and it's nearly impossible for a conversation about Star Wars to not have mentions of Expanded Universe characters like Mara Jade or Leia and Han's kids or whatever. If it's football, there's gonna be someone who knows why the Favre deal made sense and I'm a doof for not seeing it. If it's 'portrayal of women in fantasy art' someone's gonna walk in with a degree in Women's Studies and a list of historical references. If it's some off-handed comment about Frodo being a whiny twit who should have handed the ring to Sam and gone home, a dozen Tolkein scholars are gonna show up to argue that. If it's an equally thoughtless comment about katana being better or worse than western broadswords, you can bet your booties that ten thousand screaming metallurgist/historians/bladesmith/samurai are going to leap out, swords swinging. The Realms isn't the problem here. The problem is that some people know more than other people about their topics of interest, and some of those people are kinda pedantic and some of the people they are talking to have zero patience for having something that *they aren't as passionate about* explained to them. It's people. Blow up the Realms all you want, it's not going to make talking to comic-book fans, political activists, car nuts or that dude who won't shut up about how much weight he lost on Atkins any more tolerable to be around. No amount of Realms-Shattering Events are gonna make other human beings easier to be around. Might wanna learn to live with them. [/QUOTE]

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