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<blockquote data-quote="Arnwyn" data-source="post: 2452022" data-attributes="member: 7701"><p>Guess you should have avoided the 'crack' comment. You may not have meant anything by it, but you expressed yourself <em>very</em> poorly, and were called on it.</p><p></p><p>Maybe people are misunderstanding you - in my eyes, <em>every single</em> older module suffered from bad design. Hell, they were old, and the concepts and processes in module writing were all new. However, this isn't news. People have admitted that "modules have come a long way". But really, this is blatantly obvious.</p><p></p><p>Because of how obvious this is, I think when people see someone pointing out that "these old modules are badly designed" (a completely superfluous statement), they take it as meaning "this is a bad module, and you are on crack if you like it".</p><p></p><p>Probably because these people recognize that not every module is 100% perfect... and that what you pointed out as poor design may not be for some people (I know I disagreed with half of your complaints). Regardless of what people try to say, there isn't any agreed upon (and wacky) notion of objectivity in module design, until you get to the extremes (which becomes valueless).</p><p></p><p>Well, then it seems that you haven't spent a lot of time over at the movie forums here - because that's pretty much the consensus (as there has <em>yet</em> to be any agreement on what constitutes "objectively good filmaking" in the eyes of the audience/general public - the rest of your quote is simply pointing out the extremes, which is neither useful nor valid).</p><p></p><p>Everything else you said is pretty much nonsensical, as gizmo33 points out - the reviews page is valuable when one gets some information out of it, even if the reader disagrees with the reviewer's conclusion.</p><p></p><p>You know, the number of threads that you have popping up about the "bad design" of previous editions (modules or otherwise) combined with that wacky thread in Meta you started a little while ago makes it seem to me that you have an agenda. You probably don't, but my perception is telling me otherwise.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Arnwyn, post: 2452022, member: 7701"] Guess you should have avoided the 'crack' comment. You may not have meant anything by it, but you expressed yourself [i]very[/i] poorly, and were called on it. Maybe people are misunderstanding you - in my eyes, [i]every single[/i] older module suffered from bad design. Hell, they were old, and the concepts and processes in module writing were all new. However, this isn't news. People have admitted that "modules have come a long way". But really, this is blatantly obvious. Because of how obvious this is, I think when people see someone pointing out that "these old modules are badly designed" (a completely superfluous statement), they take it as meaning "this is a bad module, and you are on crack if you like it". Probably because these people recognize that not every module is 100% perfect... and that what you pointed out as poor design may not be for some people (I know I disagreed with half of your complaints). Regardless of what people try to say, there isn't any agreed upon (and wacky) notion of objectivity in module design, until you get to the extremes (which becomes valueless). Well, then it seems that you haven't spent a lot of time over at the movie forums here - because that's pretty much the consensus (as there has [i]yet[/i] to be any agreement on what constitutes "objectively good filmaking" in the eyes of the audience/general public - the rest of your quote is simply pointing out the extremes, which is neither useful nor valid). Everything else you said is pretty much nonsensical, as gizmo33 points out - the reviews page is valuable when one gets some information out of it, even if the reader disagrees with the reviewer's conclusion. You know, the number of threads that you have popping up about the "bad design" of previous editions (modules or otherwise) combined with that wacky thread in Meta you started a little while ago makes it seem to me that you have an agenda. You probably don't, but my perception is telling me otherwise. [/QUOTE]
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