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The Role Playing Game Stack Exchange
In perusing the Role Playing Game Stack Exchange (and the other gaming-related ones), I've come to a particular conclusion.
The majority of people who play games, even those who self-identify as "gamers" or even those who consider themselves to be "serious" or "hardcore," know jack shit about gaming. They have no understanding of the games they play, even the games they love and obsess over. They are oblivious to obvious strategy, suggest ludicrous game-breaking "house rules," and seem trapped in minor minutia of irrelevant mechanics of role playing games.
They also seem unable to parse instruction manuals and appear unaware that errata exist.
To analogize, the questions they ask and the answers they give are akin to if a baseball fanatic (who attends every home game every season and has the roster and stats memorized) wondered aloud why runners don't always try to steal home plate, and couldn't for the life of him figure it out. This same baseball fanatic then suggests that baseball would be better if they added a fifth base between first and second and allowed ten extra fielders.
It's amazing to behold. The questions are painful, the answers uninformed, and the discourse disheartening.
The majority of people who play games, even those who self-identify as "gamers" or even those who consider themselves to be "serious" or "hardcore," know jack shit about gaming. They have no understanding of the games they play, even the games they love and obsess over. They are oblivious to obvious strategy, suggest ludicrous game-breaking "house rules," and seem trapped in minor minutia of irrelevant mechanics of role playing games.
They also seem unable to parse instruction manuals and appear unaware that errata exist.
To analogize, the questions they ask and the answers they give are akin to if a baseball fanatic (who attends every home game every season and has the roster and stats memorized) wondered aloud why runners don't always try to steal home plate, and couldn't for the life of him figure it out. This same baseball fanatic then suggests that baseball would be better if they added a fifth base between first and second and allowed ten extra fielders.
It's amazing to behold. The questions are painful, the answers uninformed, and the discourse disheartening.
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In other news, the video game stack exchange actually helped me identify the differences between the basic drums for Rock Band 2 and 3 (I know the cymbals are vastly different, but the main kits look the same). Even my best google searches turned up nothing, so I really just needed to find someone who had used them both. Funny enough, Jeff Atwood himself was the one who responded which probably explains why I got an intelligent response.