Post by Teh Donut on Nov 9, 2008 4:36:56 GMT -5
Are you admitting you're in denial, or was that some attempt at an arguement? Or perhaps you seem to think you've provided some sort of irrefutable evidence that a list of easily understood facts is somehow inferior to "creative" goddledygook?
Here, since you have a habit of blatantly ignoring logic and arguement, I'll rephrase and repeat; you claim that this is simply a case of a few bad apples ruining the bunch, in the case of scripted format. However, there are plenty of bad apples within your beloved paragraph format bunch. By the logic of your statement and arguement, we should do away with paragraph format, too.
Oh, but wait...does it somehow deserve special treatment because it is your prefered method?
You seem to have forgotten, or blantantly overlooked (which seems to be the prevailing case in this thread), the fact that the example is of the worst case scenario for both sides, that we are not deciding which one is better than the other when taken at its best, but whether one should be eleminiated because of its abuse at its worst; neither profile is going to be anywhere near acceptable. However, with a list of 1-3 word facts, no matter how few, I at least know "okay, it's a white guy with blue eyes of a slightly short type of build that like to wear some type of suit." With even such a bear-bones base, we at least have a starting point from which we can flesh out this character.
As opposed to a mess of "creativity", full of colorful wording, yet with no substance...or, where the substance is so drowned in "creativity", that we have no idea whether this is a cross-dressing hippie, a hypocritical priest in a nun's habit bearing a cross, or Hypocrates spilled dressing on his acrostics.
As far as I can see this is nothing more than a case of laziness on the part of those who are supposed to help these sorts of people get better, not just on the part of those perpetrators insulting the character profile establishment. Yes, let's not teach and instruct these people on how to get better with their prefered method...let's ban the method instead! So much easier.
Here, since you have a habit of blatantly ignoring logic and arguement, I'll rephrase and repeat; you claim that this is simply a case of a few bad apples ruining the bunch, in the case of scripted format. However, there are plenty of bad apples within your beloved paragraph format bunch. By the logic of your statement and arguement, we should do away with paragraph format, too.
Oh, but wait...does it somehow deserve special treatment because it is your prefered method?
You seem to have forgotten, or blantantly overlooked (which seems to be the prevailing case in this thread), the fact that the example is of the worst case scenario for both sides, that we are not deciding which one is better than the other when taken at its best, but whether one should be eleminiated because of its abuse at its worst; neither profile is going to be anywhere near acceptable. However, with a list of 1-3 word facts, no matter how few, I at least know "okay, it's a white guy with blue eyes of a slightly short type of build that like to wear some type of suit." With even such a bear-bones base, we at least have a starting point from which we can flesh out this character.
As opposed to a mess of "creativity", full of colorful wording, yet with no substance...or, where the substance is so drowned in "creativity", that we have no idea whether this is a cross-dressing hippie, a hypocritical priest in a nun's habit bearing a cross, or Hypocrates spilled dressing on his acrostics.
As far as I can see this is nothing more than a case of laziness on the part of those who are supposed to help these sorts of people get better, not just on the part of those perpetrators insulting the character profile establishment. Yes, let's not teach and instruct these people on how to get better with their prefered method...let's ban the method instead! So much easier.