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<blockquote data-quote="Ibrandul" data-source="post: 8479091" data-attributes="member: 6871736"><p>There's a world of difference between passive appreciation of an artwork, or even actively "singing along," on one hand, and on the other hand the sort of deeply individual, creative appropriation that happens when a game group plays an RPG.</p><p></p><p>So a better analogy might be "I spent decades doing frequent freestyle improv karaoke riffing on Kanye's lyrics, and these people say that rapping those lyrics constitutes doing a bad thing, which implies rather strongly that my riffing also constituted doing a bad thing. And, however imitative it might have been, my riffing really was my own, not Kanye's."</p><p></p><p>The upshot of this distinction is that I feel more sympathy toward someone who gets defensive about moral criticism of a beloved RPG than I would feel toward the rather sillier person in your example, because it seems to me that to some extent players <em>really are</em> implicated by such criticism in a way that the music listener is not.</p><p></p><p>I feel sympathy, that is, for their humanity—I don't mean that I agree with them or have the same response, but I can put myself in their shoes and understand why they are taking it so personally and feeling hurt and threatened and angry and afraid (in a word, defensive).</p><p></p><p>That doesn't change the basic state of affairs, which is that defensiveness about such criticism, while an understandable human reaction, really ought to be worked through and transcended as quickly as possible (and, in the main, privately) in order to move on to more productive responses to the criticism; and that this particular "funding campaign" is nothing more than a shameful and transparent grift that even the all-too-many angry old rubes within RPG fandom are unlikely to fall for in any meaningful numbers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ibrandul, post: 8479091, member: 6871736"] There's a world of difference between passive appreciation of an artwork, or even actively "singing along," on one hand, and on the other hand the sort of deeply individual, creative appropriation that happens when a game group plays an RPG. So a better analogy might be "I spent decades doing frequent freestyle improv karaoke riffing on Kanye's lyrics, and these people say that rapping those lyrics constitutes doing a bad thing, which implies rather strongly that my riffing also constituted doing a bad thing. And, however imitative it might have been, my riffing really was my own, not Kanye's." The upshot of this distinction is that I feel more sympathy toward someone who gets defensive about moral criticism of a beloved RPG than I would feel toward the rather sillier person in your example, because it seems to me that to some extent players [I]really are[/I] implicated by such criticism in a way that the music listener is not. I feel sympathy, that is, for their humanity—I don't mean that I agree with them or have the same response, but I can put myself in their shoes and understand why they are taking it so personally and feeling hurt and threatened and angry and afraid (in a word, defensive). That doesn't change the basic state of affairs, which is that defensiveness about such criticism, while an understandable human reaction, really ought to be worked through and transcended as quickly as possible (and, in the main, privately) in order to move on to more productive responses to the criticism; and that this particular "funding campaign" is nothing more than a shameful and transparent grift that even the all-too-many angry old rubes within RPG fandom are unlikely to fall for in any meaningful numbers. [/QUOTE]
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