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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 8128819" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>This is the exciting part of the internet in my opinion (but I see this as a double edged sword too---which probably shouldn't be surprising). On the one hand, I have far greater access to information than I did before, on the other navigating that information brings its own set of problems. One thing I've observed is it can also lead to a wide range of knowledge that is more superficial if you are not careful. I think the case of this most folks will recognize is people looking things up on the fly in the middle of a forum thread debate (for example a debate about he viability of settlements in fantasy settings with no obvious water source, and that leading to debates about historical examples). When it isn't something you have deep knowledge of, it is very easy to be mislead by someone who has just been doing a good job of looking up things on various online sources as they come up. But I have found, once it hits on a topic you have deep knowledge of, that surface level understanding reveals all kinds of gaps and problems in their command of the facts they are finding. For this reason I don't look up things while I am discussing them online, just so I don't succumb to that problem myself. </p><p></p><p>However the internet also is an surprisingly poor information resource at times too when it comes to gaming. There have been many instances of me needing something like the architectural layout of historical buildings in a given region, and simply not being able to find adequate information or images online (and when I do, they are often cut and pasted from the same unknown source, with mild differences between them). I still need to get books, still need to talk to experts and still need to go to museums in order to get much of this information. I have found similar issues with more complex questions about ancient economies or life on the ground in a particular place and time. Don't get me wrong, i find all kinds of helpful and amazing information on the internet (one of my favorite resources is looking at videos of historical buildings, villages, and other places for example). Also, the internet seems good at correctly faulty information (whereas pre-internet if I was using a source, and it was flawed, and there wasn't another source on that subject, I would repeat the flaw)----though again, the internet clearly presents its own host of issues here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 8128819, member: 85555"] This is the exciting part of the internet in my opinion (but I see this as a double edged sword too---which probably shouldn't be surprising). On the one hand, I have far greater access to information than I did before, on the other navigating that information brings its own set of problems. One thing I've observed is it can also lead to a wide range of knowledge that is more superficial if you are not careful. I think the case of this most folks will recognize is people looking things up on the fly in the middle of a forum thread debate (for example a debate about he viability of settlements in fantasy settings with no obvious water source, and that leading to debates about historical examples). When it isn't something you have deep knowledge of, it is very easy to be mislead by someone who has just been doing a good job of looking up things on various online sources as they come up. But I have found, once it hits on a topic you have deep knowledge of, that surface level understanding reveals all kinds of gaps and problems in their command of the facts they are finding. For this reason I don't look up things while I am discussing them online, just so I don't succumb to that problem myself. However the internet also is an surprisingly poor information resource at times too when it comes to gaming. There have been many instances of me needing something like the architectural layout of historical buildings in a given region, and simply not being able to find adequate information or images online (and when I do, they are often cut and pasted from the same unknown source, with mild differences between them). I still need to get books, still need to talk to experts and still need to go to museums in order to get much of this information. I have found similar issues with more complex questions about ancient economies or life on the ground in a particular place and time. Don't get me wrong, i find all kinds of helpful and amazing information on the internet (one of my favorite resources is looking at videos of historical buildings, villages, and other places for example). Also, the internet seems good at correctly faulty information (whereas pre-internet if I was using a source, and it was flawed, and there wasn't another source on that subject, I would repeat the flaw)----though again, the internet clearly presents its own host of issues here. [/QUOTE]
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