Quote Originally Posted by HighlanderClone View Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TifoCT5OD3s&t=836s
So just as one example of how much bafflingly-unintelligent hot-air these melodramatic responses are, just take this snippet from Sfia:

(Slightly-distorted in sections, because I'm not taking time out of my day to actually transcribe this manually, just pulling it from YouTube Auto-CC)

sorry yeah someone else so I talked a bit about it in pre-show but the craziest thing to me is that this is where the Healer strike, like this is where they draw the line in the sand... the single leveling dungeon without aering top being expansion this expansion everything's Rel they did what is widely regarded as the hardest piece of content the game has ever had without healers but no we really care about this dungeon experience

okay you can say they engage with that more but like if you're going to complain complain about the thing that is the most polarizing and how difficult it is with and without mm there are like sentiments that I can kind of you're uper exist most think your can be done without you being there your like identity and your class fantasy can't be that strong

like imagine imagine you could do all fights without any DPS because tanks and healers just did enough damage you be like oh why am I playing a DPS right like my my Niche my wheelhouse isn't being rewarded or if all of the Busters in the game could just be taken by DPS he'd be like playing a tank feels like [ __ ] or all the threat could be managed by DPS You' say the same thing

if they were complaining about that then I'd feel like oh this makes sense but they just like no we can do dungeons without healers and they're not even talking about what that means they're just angry about the fact that you can do it it's it's so like shortsighted and so like undercooked it just it makes me really [ __ ] mad think about guys
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(*looks at actual content of Healer Strike Thread and the back-and-forth conversations and summaries there*)

(*sees all of these exact points addressed, directly, over and over again*)

(*sees scores of Healers clearly-stating that the Xenos Media Tour stunt was just another straw on the camel's back, and not the sole issue in and of itself, but rather a succinct manifestation of many overall problems*)

...Right, so let me get this straight.

Sfia's an educated and obviously-intelligent man, clearly capable of understanding this if he wanted to, or attempted to. But he obviously didn't.

So if I'm understanding this correctly:
  1. Gemina's displeasure with her experience as Healer in what used to be "casual challenge" content is being derided as invalid, because she hasn't surveyed the entire game's spectrum of possible experiences.
  2. 4 slouching dudes in gaming chairs's displeasure with the Healer protest should be accepted as valid, despite the fact that they haven't even bothered to survey the entire thread's spectrum of arguments and explanations, or even understand what's actually being said.

So, uhm, which is it?

Someone needs to fully-explore and engage with something before they can be accepted as validly criticising it?

Or it's actually okay to just skim the surface to save time, and then righteously go-off as if you fully-understand it?