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<blockquote data-quote="MichaelSomething" data-source="post: 6134148" data-attributes="member: 51168"><p>I know I may be necroing but I got to know, how am I suppose to take it? Now let me tell you a story.</p><p></p><p>There once was a man who played a video game he just discovered. In many ways it was like classic D&D. There were hundreds of unique items, dozens of strange and deadly monsters to fight, and much random generation. Every day he would play the game and post a video of his game on the internet. However, he wasn't very good at the game, never getting very far. However, the more he played, the more he learned. He would learn how a new item works or how it interacted with other items. The enemies he saw again and again would be more predictable each time he meet them. Less things would surprise him. As he played and played, he got farther and farther and got better and better, until one day, armed with all of his accumulated knowledge and experience, he defeated that game! Hurray for him!</p><p></p><p>There was once another man who would watch all the videos of the first man playing the game. One day he purchased the same game and beat it on his very first try, because he knew what to do by watching the first man. Should we mourn the second man because he never went through the same process of discovery?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MichaelSomething, post: 6134148, member: 51168"] I know I may be necroing but I got to know, how am I suppose to take it? Now let me tell you a story. There once was a man who played a video game he just discovered. In many ways it was like classic D&D. There were hundreds of unique items, dozens of strange and deadly monsters to fight, and much random generation. Every day he would play the game and post a video of his game on the internet. However, he wasn't very good at the game, never getting very far. However, the more he played, the more he learned. He would learn how a new item works or how it interacted with other items. The enemies he saw again and again would be more predictable each time he meet them. Less things would surprise him. As he played and played, he got farther and farther and got better and better, until one day, armed with all of his accumulated knowledge and experience, he defeated that game! Hurray for him! There was once another man who would watch all the videos of the first man playing the game. One day he purchased the same game and beat it on his very first try, because he knew what to do by watching the first man. Should we mourn the second man because he never went through the same process of discovery? [/QUOTE]
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