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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8707917" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Accusations of not reading? That's BINGO! I got a BINGO! Wonder what I will win?Sarcasm aside. How else would you like to define "care more about institution's that help people than money". I mean, to me, sitting in a capitalist society... that's kind of morality tale 101 "The greedy business owner cares more about people than what is good for the community and is stood up to by the little people who care about the place they live in". This is a story framework that is incredibly common and, wait for, a morality tale about the value of people over money. You may have never directly stated "I think they are morally superior" and hey, I never accused you of directly stating it. But I don't see how you can not see it in the statements being made. I never said you advocated for mary suism, but your posts helped highlight it for me. And instead of trying to refute my conclusion, you just double down that I'm putting words in your mouth. The only words those being the ones you actually did literally say about halflings flaw being that they care too much. And I know you will ignore all this, you'll accuse me of every bad faith action under the sun and complain about how I'm a terrible person, but it is really not a stretch to assume that the people famous for building buildings would build a theater. Dwarves build, it is a thing they do. And would they have use for a theater? Yes, not for the avant-garde production of the Little Dwarven Matchgirl, but for the dramatic reading of the Oration of Kings which lays out the history of the Clans and their struggles? Heck yes Dwarves are into that stuff. Is it good theater? Well, it is good Dwarven theater. It isn't like art isn't subjective. And it fits into their aesthetic and their values to do something like that. Just like them being a tight-knit clan and caring about the clan means they probably have grandmothers who bake or cook for their grandchildren. It is kind of fair to assume they have functioning societies and family units. Now maybe it is grandma's special moonshine instead of grandma's special chocolate chip cookies, but that's a detail, not the key component.</blockquote>

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