Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1085813" data-attributes="member: 812">It's a long way to go from, "D&D players are likely to be functionally literate," to, "D&D players are at or near the top of intelligence and creativity in society."I mean, come on. There's nothing very special about being literate. Fairly stupid, non-creative types manage to learn how to read. And people who can't read aren't necessarily dumb or dull.There are creative, intelligent people all over the place. In my experience, most people are pretty creative in some way and pretty intelligent, to boot. It's rare that I meet someone and discover that they're not very bright. Rare enough that it's usually worthy of comment.Now, sure, I run in crowds one might call likely to include clever clogs -- university graduates, high-tech professionals, publishers, martial artists and drag queens -- but still, I think most people in this old world have a fair amount on the ball, and creativity sure turns up even where you least expect it.<rant>And you, Larry Fitz, lay off the QA folk, alright? I've been managing QA departments for years now, and I'll tell you, dumb, dull QA people are bad at their job. It's an avenue that perhaps acquires more than its share of DD folk because in lots of companies, the demands placed on QA to be smart and creative are few. Those are companies where QA is poorly managed.</rant>Okay, sorry about that. Better now. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

Verification