Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[CleverNickName]

"Hey! Don't tell me how to run my character! And since we're on the subject, here's how I want you to run the adventure..."

 

[Ryujin]

Naw. I learned that from Strunk & White.

Vigorous writing is verbose. A sentence should contain a multiplicity of words, a paragraph should be overflowing with sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should be a riot of colors and shapes and a machine should have the complexity bestowed upon it by Rube Goldberg. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences long, or that he provides all detail and showers his subjects with adjectives known and unknown to the reader, but only that every thought be expressed with the prolixity of a legal code.

As a kid my teachers referred to me as a very succinct person.

.... Then I read Lovecraft.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Aw man, is that thread also going to turn into another "OMG Railroads" thread? How many do we need?

So what you're saying is ...

EnWorld is using illusionism to rob commenters of agency. Despite what we think threads are about, all threads are really Quantum Railroad Threads, as every thread leads to the same topic ... OMG Railroads.

I wish there was a name for being forced to travel on a path to a predetermined destination. I'm sure it will come to me ....

 

[Scribe]

If you're trolling, that is an A+ job.

A true work of art, completely within any conceivable board rules, and delivered with apparent guilelessness. And it's making so many people, including me, absolutely nuts.

Fool me once and all that. Issue resolved now.

 

[Old Fezziwig]

Naw. I learned that from Strunk & White.

Vigorous writing is verbose. A sentence should contain a multiplicity of words, a paragraph should be overflowing with sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should be a riot of colors and shapes and a machine should have the complexity bestowed upon it by Rube Goldberg. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences long, or that he provides all detail and showers his subjects with adjectives known and unknown to the reader, but only that every thought be expressed with the prolixity of a legal code.

I can only assume you have the unabridged Strunk & White (in 10 deluxe hardcover volumes).

 

[prabe]

As a kid my teachers referred to me as a very succinct person.

.... Then I read Lovecraft.

Yeah, sesquipedalianism never looks succinct, whatever the word count.

 

[CleverNickName]

So what you're saying is ...

EnWorld is using illusionism to rob commenters of agency. Despite what we think threads are about, all threads are really Quantum Railroad Threads, as every thread leads to the same topic ... OMG Railroads.

I wish there was a name for being forced to travel on a path to a predetermined destination. I'm sure it will come to me ....

 

[overgeeked]

"Hey! Don't tell me how to run my character! And since we're on the subject, here's how I want you to run the adventure..."

I think that sums up at least half the problems at any given table.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

As a kid my teachers referred to me as a very succinct person.

.... Then I read Lovecraft.

Reminds me of my sixth grade teacher.

Teacher: Snarf, you write just like Lovecraft!

Snarf: You mean that I am overly verbose?

Teacher: ...no.

Snarf: Oh, that I use archaic and anachronistic language?

Teacher: ...no.

Snarf: What else is Lovecraft known for?

Teacher: I think we need to talk. During detention.

 

[RealAlHazred]

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-- Abraham Lincoln