On Themis [6.4 SPOILER]

[Brinne]

Yes, and I'm very much more of a "literary analysis" type person (as silly and awkward as that is to say in relation to a goofy video game, but hey, every piece of media produced for an audience legitimately is informed by a web of various levels of decisions and influences that can be dissected, too). So we were clearly always destined to meet at dawn with dueling pistols, where only one can leave the subforum alive.

I'm joking, of course. Both forms of approaching the story are perfectly valid and great and can be tons of fun. The problem is resentment brewing when one area feels the other is stepping on their toes or interfering with their (again, both completely valid) versions of "fun" or "interest," which can quickly come across as condescending because they're speaking essentially two completely different languages with two completely different sets of goalposts, usually without recognizing it.

In Moose's case recently, yes, I, like Lunaxia, have a hard time not bristling a bit at the allegation that (because I presume he's speaking more from the toybox model) I must be criticizing the story because the dolls and action figures I like from the box (that I probably like just because they're cool and pretty and less messy than the ugly Sundered) didn't win. No. I'm sorry. That is just flat out, absolutely, incorrect. I won't presume deliberate malice on Moose's part, because again, we are probably speaking from fundamentally different frameworks, but it is incorrect.