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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 8411725" data-attributes="member: 16814"><p>I don't like the Alexandrian either, but that essay is quite good.  I tend to still try to read things from people that I have disagreements with because I often find they can say very interesting things.  I recently strongly disagreed with Ron's take on Blades in the Dark -- so much so I question what game he was actually talking about (and, reading his more detailed posts, they did start by altering the game pretty strongly and approaching it from a very strange place so that worked out).  Further, I find some of his posts from the Forge to be needlessly bombastic and damage the interesting things he has to say (and even in the brain damage post he's saying some very interesting and thought provoking things in-between the unnecessarily alienating wording).  His thoughts on games are still pretty interesting, and even in the posts/vlog about Blades that I have strong disagreements with, there are still things very much worth considering -- it made me take a close look at some aspects of play and think about them.  I find being challenged like this very valuable.</p></blockquote><p></p>