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<blockquote data-quote="The-Magic-Sword" data-source="post: 9497257" data-attributes="member: 6801252">Yeah, it's a little odd because tbh, the line between hobbyists and specialists is blurrier in the humanities to begin with, which is what this is. My critical eye from my education is fully engaged on here and I arguably qualify as a specialist in that I have that critical training and apply it to RPGs fairly extensively, they ended up being a big part of my academic life. Like, we're (usually) not citing sources and throwing out quotes, but I wouldn't say there's a higher level either, actual academics who do games are best described as fragmented and there's barely a coherent conversation, just people plugging away at entirely different stylings of what it means to study games, and the class system on social media is usually designers/industry vs. hobbyists, but that's not an appropriate hierarchy for the kind of critical community we have when discussing literature-- writers aren't top dog in literary theory, though a given writer (Tolkien for example) could be both, given The Critics and the Monster, or Oscar Wilde's assorted critical essays.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The-Magic-Sword, post: 9497257, member: 6801252"] Yeah, it's a little odd because tbh, the line between hobbyists and specialists is blurrier in the humanities to begin with, which is what this is. My critical eye from my education is fully engaged on here and I arguably qualify as a specialist in that I have that critical training and apply it to RPGs fairly extensively, they ended up being a big part of my academic life. Like, we're (usually) not citing sources and throwing out quotes, but I wouldn't say there's a higher level either, actual academics who do games are best described as fragmented and there's barely a coherent conversation, just people plugging away at entirely different stylings of what it means to study games, and the class system on social media is usually designers/industry vs. hobbyists, but that's not an appropriate hierarchy for the kind of critical community we have when discussing literature-- writers aren't top dog in literary theory, though a given writer (Tolkien for example) could be both, given [I]The Critics and the Monster[/I], or Oscar Wilde's assorted critical essays. [/QUOTE]

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