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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8938549" data-attributes="member: 42582">I talked about cognitive/intellectual grasp. Someone can grasp it even if it doesn't &quot;feel right&quot;.So if a person is not introduced in thinking about various approaches to RPGing, that deploy different techniques, different structure of authority over the fiction, etc, then why would they care about criticism or theoretical frameworks.This is back to the person who likes what they like and is not interested in the rest. That person doesn't need criticism.[USER=6795602]@FrogReaver[/USER] [USER=7037765]@Xamnam[/USER] This idea that we can't judge cultural or artistic products without judging those who like them or engage with them is just weird. Some food is better than other food. The mushroom pasta I had the other day at a good Italian restaurant is nicer than the mushroom pasta I make at home. Maybe if I tried to make something nicer I could - but I don't, and I get what I make.I have to mark students' work pretty often. Some just write better than others. Some think better than others, That's what grading is all about.Some movies are better than others. I watched The Magnificent Ambersons on DVD the other day. It's clearly a better movie than the first Dr Strange movie. That's a view about films. It's not a view about people (beyond the implication that Orson Welles was a brilliant filmmaker).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 8938549, member: 42582"] I talked about cognitive/intellectual grasp. Someone can grasp it even if it doesn't "feel right". So if a person is not introduced in thinking about various approaches to RPGing, that deploy different techniques, different structure of authority over the fiction, etc, then [b]why would they care about criticism or theoretical frameworks[/b]. This is back to the person who [i]likes what they like[/i] and is not interested in the rest. That person doesn't need criticism. [USER=6795602]@FrogReaver[/USER] [USER=7037765]@Xamnam[/USER] This idea that we can't judge cultural or artistic products without judging those who like them or engage with them is just weird. Some food is better than other food. The mushroom pasta I had the other day at a good Italian restaurant is nicer than the mushroom pasta I make at home. Maybe if I tried to make something nicer I could - but I don't, and I get what I make. I have to mark students' work pretty often. Some just write better than others. Some think better than others, That's what grading is all about. Some movies are better than others. I watched The Magnificent Ambersons on DVD the other day. It's clearly a better movie than the first Dr Strange movie. That's a view about films. It's not a view about people (beyond the implication that Orson Welles was a brilliant filmmaker). [/QUOTE]

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