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GasBandit

GasBandit

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stienman said:
If you have a "favorite artist" and are not someone who has commissioned the painting of at least one work(or are not an artist yourself, I suppose), you need to get punched in the face.
If you have a "favorite musician" and are not someone who has commissioned the recording of at least one song(or are not a musician yourself, I suppose), you need to get punched in the face.
If you have a "favorite forum poster" and are not someone who has commissioned the writing of at least one post(or are not a forum poster yourself, I suppose), you need to get punched in the face.
If you have a "favorite writer" and are not someone who has commissioned the writing of at least one book(or are not a writer yourself, I suppose), you need to get punched in the face.
If you have a "favorite celebrity" and are not someone who has commissioned the embarrassment of at least one human race(or are not a celebrity yourself, I suppose), you need to get punched in the face.

Wow. It works for everything else just as well as it works for architecture!
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Those things have a much lower "barrier to entry" for enjoyment. Architecture is a different duck. Anyone can look at a painting, read a book, listen to a song. But there's more to architecture than just "ooh lookit how pretty and funky that building looks." Some of the most important stuff about architecture is the stuff you can't see.

Having a favorite architect just by looking at the buildings is like saying you have a favorite author by looking at book jackets.
 
drifter

drifter

If you have a favorite artist but haven't commissioned a painting/sculpture/whatevs, would you also be a doof?

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Nerts. Ninja'd by stienman.

Nothing to see here, move along
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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stienman said:
No, that's like saying, "I have a favorite computer company - Apple" even though you don't know the first thing about the electronic or software design inside the devices you're using.

If anything, you're being pretentious by claiming that you cannot enjoy a part of someone's work unless you understand and enjoy everything they did to produce that work.

"I know what I like" is the only barrier of entry for a "favorite" anything.
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No, it'd be more like saying I have a favorite apple design team member. Without pretentiousness you can have a favorite style of architecture... but to have a favorite individual architect is beyond hipster territory.
 
Azurephoenix

Azurephoenix

stienman said:
That's a bit too frequently, and, frankly, suggests that you are overusing it and thus diluting it, which, as we all know, is a crime against humanity, similar to using too many commas in a single sentence.

Consider these delicious alternatives for stupidity above and below the level asininity:

absurd, cretinous, daft, foolish, half-witted, idiotic, inane, moronic, silly, sophomoric, stupid
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Cretinous is pure gold. I also like troglodytic.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Azurephoenix said:
Cretinous is pure gold. I also like troglodytic.
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Yeah, I like troglodytic as well.. one of my favorite compound insults is "slack-jawed, troglodytic, cement-headed so-and-so."

"Stupid" isn't good enough unless it has a modifier. I'm a fan of "egregiously stupid."
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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stienman said:
Ah, but the analogy still fits. A lot of people think Jonathon Ives is the bee's knees. And there is plenty to go around in terms of industrial design love. Perhaps it does sound pretentious to you, but you sound as bad as those who claim that regular movie goers can never truly love or hate a film - they have to have special skills and a deep understanding of movie making before they should be allowed to have an opinion.
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I'd say it's more like I'm lambasting people who claim to have a favorite director.




It's already been pointed out to me that the guy in question is an architecture student, so that was my bad there. But the argument stands for those who are not.
 
Gared

Gared

Up at the top there should be an option to "unwatch" the thread. Not sure that that'll remove your avatar from it, but it'll quit showing up in your Alerts.

Rats indeed.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

Ugh, I've been dreading this story-line. The one where the girl's never seen before boy-friend is really nice, and the guy feels threatened and what-not. Seen/read it several times, and I've hated it each time.
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

Yoshimickster said:
Ugh, I've been dreading this story-line. The one where the girl's never seen before boy-friend is really nice, and the guy feels threatened and what-not. Seen/read it several times, and I've hated it each time.
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He isn't too much of a nice guy, he just asked a married woman to run off with him.
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

Come to think of it, why doesn't Kurtz just let Dylan take over the strip so he can put all his energies into Table Titans? Then he doesn't have to worry about splitting the work and having shoddy quality on both as a result.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

ThatNickGuy said:
Come to think of it, why doesn't Kurtz just let Dylan take over the strip so he can put all his energies into Table Titans? Then he doesn't have to worry about splitting the work and having shoddy quality on both as a result.
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This.

Really this Arjun character is your average "Baxter" nice enough guy, but he's wrong for her and unless Francis does some grande gesture in the final act that makes her go to him.
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

Will the comic end because Kurtz runs out of ideas, or he says something that pisses Wizards off?

One more or, he ends up being late 4 weeks in a row.
 
Gared

Gared

Also, the portion of the Table Titans site that asks for 300 - 400 word "tales from the table" makes me concerned that Scott has three or four months worth of strips for thought out (at most) and will then be using those "tales from the table" as inspiration for future plot arcs. So basically, Ding! with D&D characters instead of WoW chars.
 
Gusto

Gusto

Kurtz claims to have written out the general story arcs for TT for the next 2-3 years to come.

I have high hopes, and apparently Battered Wife Syndrome.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

I am not gonna bother with it, the characters are all such huge cliches especially the black haired one. I just wanna beat the shit out of him! I get it, he's the cliche mean gamer and its meant to be satirical but there has to be a limit to satire right?
 
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