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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aus_Snow" data-source="post: 5437090" data-attributes="member: 29112">Then, indeed, our mileage has varied, and considerably at that. I am not surprised, all things considered.So you say. In your experience, that might even be so. Maybe. But to extend it out to the world in general? Yeah. Sure. I can see you have convinced yourself of certain "truths". Definitely. But that is all that is clearly the case here.Yes. *sigh* They are out there. Just as are - many - writers, and even actors, who can and do get into the heads of various other beings. Hell, even empathy itself is a similar, if not identical ability. And many, many people indeed - all, to some extent, in fact - possess that one. To put yourself in someone else's shoes, as the saying has it, really is doing more or less the same thing.Oh, ferscrissakes. Where did the "to play something memorable" snootiness enter in? And why. I mean, really. True, it matches the tone of much of the remainder of the post well enough. Still, you could "refrain" there as well, I am sure. People might simply want to play something alien, and actually manage to do pretty damn well at it too. Not to prove anything, and not because it's necessarily going to be more memorable. But simply because it's one of many options, and it happens to be the one that is desirable at that point. Simple as that.And the fact that you consider so many writers to be lacking in this way - not to mention actors, of course! - while seemingly holding your own talents (and wisdom, let it be said!) in such high regard... well. No, never mind. There's really nothing to be said to that. Not that, even if there was, it would apparently have the remotest chance of sinking in. So... yeah.Dear gods. Hyperbole again? To put it mildly, at that.*sigh*Just... just never mind. Not the place for what needs to be said.</blockquote>

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