suprisedcrankyface
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"I feel that peoples capacity to interpret meaning beyond the obvious has seriously declined"My college teachers would have a fieldtrip with today's generation. Hell even 8th grade teachers and 9th grade teachers would look at this generation in a funny way when they can't understand poetry. Albeit in 8th grade all you're tasked to do is copy-paste others' arguments about a specific poem or novel. Something that isn't available here. Then =/= than, its =/= it's It's very telling when you don't know the basics of English grammar yet you admit you're confused but in a way that's basically saying "Stop talking like a teacher." rather than "I should start talking like a teacher".
"I know I write in a wooden manner that does not invite discussion, however I don't believe this is why people do not engage with the topic".Yeah my OP and way of talking really doesn't invite the average beer drinker to chipping in his opinion in a fragmented way. It doesn't emotionally trigger and hang any carrot over someone's head. My way kinda assumes everyone would try to copy me as a guideline and try to dissect by themselves what I meant with no way to check the results. The way I also talk doesn't invite any curiosity. It's not playful and it's indeed essay driven.
It definitely doesn't start off easy by teaching someone from 0. It doesn't start off with a hello how are you doing today. Most higher tier conversation happens with old time members who are well acquainted to a very specific conversation that's been talked about for ages. And of course the average Twitter user cannot and doesn't like essays unless they have something emotionally and socially in common with it such as what e-celeb did to the other e-celeb.
"Most people like easily understood surface level discussions, with far fewer wanting to dive into the nuts and bolts of an issue"So why do people discuss politics in a very engaged way despite the supposed subject matter being hard as hell? 98% is just talking about the presidents and countries which is just social talk they can already do. In fact it has a lot in common with sports lovers when talking about presidents. The 2% of the discussion such as streets, economy, military power ... nobody talks about the technical stuff... at best 0-2% is technical stuff in between the 98% of social talking. Presidents sure as hell barely know how to design a street to avoid traffic.
"Most people lack my level of understanding, and it is their own fault. My engagement is perfect - its other people who fail to understand"The subject matter of game design much like traditional games requires a heavy dose of imagination in order to theorize but they also in a way teach you from 1 ... traditional board games have clear rules & guidelines from which to learn & copy from and most people absolutely do not have the design know-how to create their own detailed rules and guidelines for a theoretical game. The way I write it's basically like starting from college and going freeform. I also don't provide any technical engineering papers and instead only provide philosophy which doesn't attract the likeminded technical designers.
Over complication is the communicators problem, not the recipients. There is a term known as 'lexical density', and ironically the better you know a subject the better you can explain it for your intended audience.