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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8543875" data-attributes="member: 29398">It's a question of a) context and b) expectations.Take world football.&nbsp; Canada is about to qualify* for the men's World Cup for only the second time ever, which within the context of Canadian football is a great success.&nbsp; Once they get there, any further success is sheer gravy.Contrast this with the Canadian women's team, who expect to qualify every time and consider it a failure if, once there, they don't at least come close to winning the whole thing.* - it's not quite a mathematical lock yet but the odds of qualifying are well over 99% as it stands now.D&amp;D is in even more rarefied air than our women's team, to the point where - despite Pathfinder's best attempts - most of the time the only comparitive metric to measure success is against its own prior self and in context of the times those prior selves existed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 8543875, member: 29398"] It's a question of a) context and b) expectations. Take world football. Canada is about to qualify* for the men's World Cup for only the second time ever, which within the context of Canadian football is a great success. Once they get there, any further success is sheer gravy. Contrast this with the Canadian women's team, who expect to qualify every time and consider it a failure if, once there, they don't at least come close to winning the whole thing. * - it's not quite a mathematical lock yet but the odds of qualifying are well over 99% as it stands now. D&D is in even more rarefied air than our women's team, to the point where - despite Pathfinder's best attempts - most of the time the only comparitive metric to measure success is against its own prior self and in context of the times those prior selves existed. [/QUOTE]

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