(03-02-2015, 06:02 PM)Unnamed Mercenary Wrote:
I believe the mods have said enough, but I just wanted to note that I find value in discussion itself for its own sake, and I don't necessarily require that the other party fundamentally change from it, though obviously I have no interest in trying to speak with someone who is blatantly disrespecting me or my position from the off.
And, yeah, it IS a public forum, so even if the person I am talking to doesn't necessarily take it in and think about it properly, there are lurkers who will. And that, on its own, is enough for me.
(03-02-2015, 06:03 PM)Knight Kat Wrote:
Man, I see this argument a LOT.
The problem with it is that Eorzea is still a world of pure fiction, made by human beings with all the values and perspectives of humans from our own planet Earth. And of course, the other people playing those characters are all human beings themselves, all from planet Earth, and there is simply no way to ignore this. It colors everything, sometimes in small ways, sometimes in really overt ways (the dragoon gut window and the ninja hakama being really obvious examples, among others). Ideally both the developers and the players would focus on making the fictional world as believable and immersive as possible, but this doesn't always happen... hence this discussion.