Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[el-remmen]

While D&D is my preferred RPG experience, I really have a hard time grokking folks who can only look at RPGs through the D&D lens. Or even worse, only looking at all other forms/styles of D&D through their idiosyncratic lens as well.

 

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wow, now I've been blocked by two people and the only way I found out was due to the next page in a thread being blank.

 

[RealAlHazred]

Other people expressing a preference for a different style of play from yours is not the same as their impugning your preferred style. And if you think it does. I worry that you have made that playstyle too much a part of your identity.

The fact you enjoy a different style of play than I do implies that my style of play isn't the "best" style of play, and is therefore a direct attack on my tastes.

This is because of my Gnome bard character killing Strahd with an upcast Vicious Mockery isn't it?

 

[Scribe]

Holy cow, I go off to help at summer camp for a week, and when I get back that thread has rocketed past this one. Trying and failing to resist the urge to go rubber neck...

I dont think its worth it at all.

wow, now I've been blocked by two people and the only way I found out was due to the next page in a thread being blank.

Rookie.

 

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Rookie.

The first one, I'm guessing the other person didn't like my calling out his behavior and suggest he take it elsewhere, as for the second person I have no idea what i did.

 

[overgeeked]

"Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown."

 

[prabe]

This is because of my Gnome bard character killing Strahd with an upcast Vicious Mockery isn't it?

That seems like a perfect way for Strahd to die.

 

[Deset Gled]

But what is bad about that scene, or others that it inspired? It’s a wonderful scene. And as a trope, it’s no different from say “Silence of the Lambs”, or “A Few Good Men.” Maybe I’m missing the original post, but even if a verbal confrontation or clashing of worldviews between protagonist and antagonist is a trope, it’s a very, very good one.

Oh, the scene itself it absolutely brilliant. No complaints about the movie itself. But its around that time that Hollywood started a trend where two star antagonists had to have that kind of a relationship/moment, even if it makes no sense. It's just a change in the way movies are made over time, and one that I don't particularly like (I will also admit my post last night may have some whisky backed hyperbole) .

The best before/after contrast I can give you is Wrath of Khan vs Insurrection. Kirk, normally a man of action and fighting, is literally never in the same location as Khan. But in Insurrection, the diplomatic and tempered Picard ends up in multiple scenes facing Ruafo, despite the fact that Ruafo is supposed to be a shadowy, works-behind-the-scenes antagonist. It makes no sense.

In the same vein, I am a huge fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Loved it in first run, and still love it now. But I am absolutely horrified by the explosion of the Paranormal Teen Romance genre, more than I am horrified by the literal monsters in the show. Its possible to respect a thing and not respect its legacy.