Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Umbran]

It's one thing when bloggers or sites like Kotaku do it -- I get the revenue needs -- but I get queasy when major newspapers get in on the act as well.

Because, as we all know, major newspapers have no revenue problems whatsoever! Newspapers are the easy business. Not dying at all...

..oh, wait. Strike that. Reverse it.

 

[Umbran]

Whoever knew that the ultimate dystopia would be consumerist ennui?

To be honest, though, that is the cyberpunk dystopia for 99.95% of the cyberpunk dystopia population. We just see it as exciting because our view of it is from the point of view of someone in the 0.05% for whom it is an action-adventure movie setting.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I enjoy a good rules debate. Reminds me of 3e and the early days of ENWorld.

Admittedly, the word "good" is doing a bit of lifting. But not too much for most civilized netizens.

I'll always maintain that there's a difference between toxic and productive rules-lawyering, but the line can be fine and the argument somewhat depends on a perspective that says that rules coherence matters.

 

[Umbran]

(I realize there might be some ambiguity since I didn't clip out there first, but note the "I know you're mostly just making a joke" which I'd think was clear what part it referred to since Snarf was wry in their second paragraph.

I clipped out the second paragraph because you don't specifically refer to it. You very explicitly referred to the FIRST sentence. Not "first sentence of the second paragraph".

Thus, the confusion.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I clipped out the second paragraph because you don't specifically refer to it. You very explicitly referred to the FIRST sentence. Not "first sentence of the second paragraph".

Thus, the confusion.

Because I didn't realize I'd even left the first paragraph in.

 

[Umbran]

I enjoy a good rules debate.

Rules debate on a messageboard and rules debate at the table holding up play are not really the same thing, though.

 

[Umbran]

Because I didn't realize I'd even left the first paragraph in.

I get it.

It just happens to be a great example of what a writing teacher I had told us: There are (at least) three texts. What the author intended, what actually appeared on the page, and what the audience gets out of it.

 

[Ryujin]

Aldous Huxley.

William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson for that matter...

... but that's beside the point.

(Insert Frank Drebin GIF here)

 

[Ryujin]

To be honest, though, that is the cyberpunk dystopia for 99.95% of the cyberpunk dystopia population. We just see it as exciting because our view of it is from the point of view of someone in the 0.05% for whom it is an action-adventure movie setting.

You know those previous posts about sarcasm coming across poorly in text...?

 

[Mannahnin]