Recent content by michaeljpastor

No. Artistic interpretation and accusations of maliciousness are not the same thing. And the last I'm saying on the topic.

delete this please. hit backspace too far.

Comic books take the opportunity reinterpret artistic (both writing and illustration) intent (or lack thereof) all the time. This is no different. Entire swaths of continuity have been built over a single (ambiguous/incorrect) panel (why was Shadow Woman white instead of blue in the Hall of...

No I wasn't. Please stop telling me what I meant.

No argument there. I have never responded well to false accusations though.

Only one person asked for a clarification and identified themselves as a non-primary English speaker. The rest were attacks, and none asked for a clarification. The rest has been arguing about grammar.

It's also okay not to jump to conclusions. So we should eliminate all non-literal speech? Which has nothing to do with what I said.

"Don't have a coronary" means calm down, it doesn't mean "Don't die." All of which is completely irrelevant. I hope every bigoted sexist in the RPG world is furious right now. That was what I intended. You all can argue parts of speech all you want. It wasn't literal - pick your favorite...

who cares? it wasn't literal. idiom, metaphor, hyperbole, it's not literal.

No, I believe metaphor is correct. Hyperbole too. So it's a hyperbolic metaphor. When I say "my head exploded" when I realized the twist at the end of Sixth Sense, I neither mean that literally nor to that degree. Did everyone think that "clutching pearls" as it was said earlier was someone...

So is over interpreting an obvious metaphor as a literal wish.

I didn't wish death on anyone.

I hope every incel in the RPG world just had a coronary.

yay, 'globalization'

Sounds like someone is deflecting