Chopper Rollins wrote:Alavaria Fera wrote:Diomedes Calypso wrote:Hunting
The analogy is Hunting.,......snip ....
No Fight needed.
No fight needed for the activity to be an activity enjoyed for hundreds of years with guns... thousanands with arrows etc (prey might have varried)
Whole cultures are built around the sport. Some people hate it but alll that matters is that some people love something for it to have merit to some people. Other's opinions do not alter the merit of the activity for others.. and honestly held with priorities diffferent than those that do not like the idea.
And then the magic space deer drops on you and explodes your gun and other equipment
Oh yass yass, imagine for a moment, if you will, a deer that has evolved the equivalent of ECM. What was originally a malformed nasal passage proved no detriment and was given the required millenia to morph into a powerful echo chamber. A new species of deer that can squeal when it senses your presence and make you dizzy, blur your vision.
The Squealing Deer call can fill a valley with disorienting noise, nothing feeds on them except microscopic parasites.
The Hunters pray that their prey will be nerfed.
The Squealing Deer gently drink the Hunter's delicious tears from their disoriented, semiconcious faces.
Oh yes, computer guys and maybe even most of the twitter generation don't understand the purpose of analogies.
Somehow they think that using an analogy means "everything about what the analogy is compared to must make sense" and miss the idea that analogies are usually used to describe ONE FACET of a larger subject to contemplate in all its nuances.
Of course, the notion that reasoning is more important that "takeaway's" is alien in itself.
The fellow in the OP "mused" about his inablity to understand a situation where lots of people waited patiently for over 30 minutes in order to find and swoop in on one kill where the kill itself was never in doubt.
The analogy of the pleasuers and efforts undertaken for the "sport" (not the "need to feed my family somehow or they'll starve" ) aspect of hunting was quite apt,...
remember too that it was not the act but the "state of mind" and "motivation" and the "challenge" and the "pleasure" that he brought into question. For me to address his question..
nothing else about hunting needs to apply to the space ships... clearly it was issues of motivation and steps in planning and tedious waiting that I was drawing the analogy with..
In no way does that make a sweeping connection between all space ship pvp and hunting ....
is it that hard for people to understand that any subject can be taken down into fragmented portions for individual exploration of the nature of those portions, without suggesting that the nature of one aspect of a situation applies to all aspects of a situations.
Yeah. .Mr Twitters will give me a WAT. ? conditional clauses and use of the subjunctive tense in applying additional qualifiers escape people who want a clear answer,, not food for thought.
And yes . my grammar is sloppy as i don't get it all right as I type as my mind wanders... you're minds are flexible enought to guess what I'm trying to get at rather than trying to find something to take fault with.
(musing is an invitation for more musing.. not request for an "answer" answers are no good anyway without hearing the thought process that allowed people to arrive at the answer.