Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

You all need to play Thousand Year Old Vampire, which is all about losing your memory over time. Really powerful stuff.

 

[Thomas Shey]

This... kinds sounds like appeal to authority. Only those who have read enough ought to speak? Gatekeep much?

People who haven't read as much as you can still have good points to make, Whizbang. Indeed, they may have fewer preconceived notions than you do, and may have fresh perspectives you can learn from.

If you are going to dismiss someone, do it for their specifics, not a generalization that (mis)applies to others, hm?

On the other hand, when you have things like people that talk about the hobby like a class-and-level approach is the only one that exists, I can't say I find that either an appeal to authority or gatekeeping; its more a suggestion someone is talking beyond their scope of knowledg.extent. If that's all you know, at least you should address the fact you're doing that, and if you don't know enough to even do that, it behooves you before talking in a general space to be at least conceptually aware of what's out there.

Or put bluntly, I'm not required to tolerate people talking broadly about things they're not broadly knowledgable in.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Big "Leave Brittany alone!" vibe.

But she’s the one that caused the eruption!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I was Rome some years ago, and watched someone have a nigh existential crisis over an obelisk.

Either a typo was involved, or Umbran is Danny the Street’s cousin.

 

[Mannahnin]

Or put bluntly, I'm not required to tolerate people talking broadly about things they're not broadly knowledgable in.

Well, you're required (by forum rules) to tolerate it to the extent of not creating a conflict over it. But of course, that's the original purpose of this thread.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

And this idea that there's things we absolutely and totally forget completely, that information about ourselves is just lost, every day, bit by bit, minute by minute - wait, another thing has been forgotten by mankind. And another thing. And now something else... - was a thing that needed a sit-down on the curb to work through.

I was just having a similar conversation about this kind of thing with my Mom 2 days ago. We’ve both created or designed a lot of things. Many have ceased to exist or are lost. (I was urging her to create a written record of some of the things she’s made.)

When I was in college, I had 2-3 pieces that were being considered for addition to the school’s permanent collection. But none of them made it because- unbeknownst to me- there were materials I used that were unstable as I used them, so the creations simply disintegrated over time (for various reasons).

Much later, I designed this golden labradorite & tsavorite garnet pendant for my maternal aunt’s 50th birthday. Unfortunately, it was lost in either the floodwaters of Katrina or the post-disaster cleanup.

Time comes for everything. Entropy always wins in the end.

 

[billd91]

You all need to play Thousand Year Old Vampire, which is all about losing your memory over time. Really powerful stuff.

It is on my list of games to try.

 

[Mannahnin]

I bought it a couple of years ago but haven't made the time. Definitely on the list.

 

[MoonSong]

You're trying to be ironically funny, right?

I made the trying to look cute face. n_n

Don't overthink it. ¬.¬

 

[pukunui]

I was Rome some years ago

Oh yeah? Well, I was Athens some years before that!