I'm not against it, but . . .
Jan. 17th, 2004 02:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
incandescensCleared far too much Cardiothoracic today, but had an otherwise peaceful evening. Also finally worked out (I think and hope) how to write a report which will show how many episodes a coder's doing in a given month, which will either sadly confirm or surprisingly deny certain thoughts I have about the coder who shares Cardiothoracic with me.
Mph. Looking at the White Wolf forums on the subject of Gehenna, their latest big end-of-storyline book, it seems that fan entitlement is just as bad in rpgs as it is in anime/manga. If not more so, because the fans feel that they are that much closer to the writers.
How to phrase the next sentence? To say, "I'm not against criticism, but . . ." automatically leads into something which is going to sound wrong, or against all forms of criticism, or both. But there are fans who lack discrimination (and indeed courtesy), and they brood, and they grow vocal, and they are a stench in the congregation.
And than heavens I'm out of Cardiothoracic till Wednesday. If any more loud conversations had taken place two inches behind my chair while I was trying to code and input data, I would have taken advantage of the big tempting window that looked down on the ground three stories below. Defenestration is a lovely word.
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"Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show." -- Mignon McLaughlin
Mph. Looking at the White Wolf forums on the subject of Gehenna, their latest big end-of-storyline book, it seems that fan entitlement is just as bad in rpgs as it is in anime/manga. If not more so, because the fans feel that they are that much closer to the writers.
How to phrase the next sentence? To say, "I'm not against criticism, but . . ." automatically leads into something which is going to sound wrong, or against all forms of criticism, or both. But there are fans who lack discrimination (and indeed courtesy), and they brood, and they grow vocal, and they are a stench in the congregation.
And than heavens I'm out of Cardiothoracic till Wednesday. If any more loud conversations had taken place two inches behind my chair while I was trying to code and input data, I would have taken advantage of the big tempting window that looked down on the ground three stories below. Defenestration is a lovely word.
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"Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show." -- Mignon McLaughlin
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Date: 2004-01-17 06:39 am (UTC)Courtesy, if present, would cover- not a multitude, is it? discrimination is a non-count noun- an acre of lack of proportion. But a surprising number of people grew up without a grounding in basic courtesy (it curls my hair how rude parents can be to their children) and the culture in general, at least over here, doesn't put great emphasis on its importance. It's considered natural (not even 'excusable') if your feelings are deep and sincere, and who feels more deeply and sincerely than a fan?
-mjj