Recent content by soviet

That doesn't follow. So?

I guess they've blocked me then because I can't see it.

Complete tangent but I was around in the mid-90s when Magic became big. I initially rejected it as 'not for me; when some of my buddies wanted me to try it, then I did try it, then I took it fairly seriously and travelled to international tournaments including a Pro Tour and some GPs, and even...

Which is 100% true. If I've been to France multiple times, and you've once looked it up on wikipedia, I know more about what France is like than you do. If I've read 100 games and played 20 of them, and you've only ever read or played D&D (the figurative 'you') I know more about RPGs and RPG...

I don't drive at all. I have never sat and operated a car in any capacity (unless Roadblasters counts). My understanding of what a driver can or can't do is entirely coloured by watching people drive cars I am a passenger in, and movies. I do not pretend that 'well, I have seen Drive, and...

You don't think real world experience has any value and you think your own five minute consideration of 'what you imagine other perspectives to be' is all the insight anyone could ever gain from anything. This is an unusual perspective for someone posting on a discussion board to take. (Well...

Any RPG is a combination of system inputs that create a particular effect. If you play something else with different inputs, you will a) see what effect other inputs can create and b) better appreciate how the inputs in the first game create the effects you like.

I gave you a couple of reasons why driving a semi would make you a better driver, which you seem to have ignored.

I think you're being sarcastic but doing and understanding these things really would make one's fantasy games better. The point is not 'therefore you should go out and do them'. The point is 'therefore you should not dismiss those activities as having no value' and 'therefore you should not...

It's not a strawman. It was literally said, a few pages ago.

Forum posting? :) Ultimately I don't care if people only want to play one game and not try any others. But I will push back on people who say that there is nothing that can possibly be learned from doing so, or that all other games are inferior, or that the things that their chosen game can't...

Yes you would. You would have an experience of handling a different sort of vehicle that may improve your ability to respond to other unexpected conditions and circumstances in the future. If you are on the road and a semi ahead of you or next to you or about to overtake you appears to be in...

I agree that the second quote is not objectionable. But I see things like the first quote a lot more. Here's an example in this very thread:

My answer is that it doesn't matter even slightly if it's right. It matters if it feels right, or feels like it might be right. It generates a result that gives an impression of verisimilitude.

Having to have a book with you is not an inhuman level of required system mastery.