Killed in a Smiling Accident.

Thought for the day.

Can it really be called crafting if you just press a single button and then go and watch a movie for half an hour?

Posted by Melmoth at 8:13 pm

6 Responses to “Thought for the day.”

1. Fuzzy Says:
   February 11th, 2010 at 9:08 pm

   Well, there’s always A Tale in the Desert.

   anti-spam word: smeggle!

2. Stabs Says:
   February 12th, 2010 at 2:04 am

   A lot of care and love can go into that button press.

   My antispam word is frumious, even more frumious than Melmoth.

3. Melmoth Says:
   February 12th, 2010 at 6:53 am

   @Fuzzy: I’m probably being unfair but ATitD seems to be at the other extreme of the Scale of Crafting, where you need to expend five hours of intense concentration in order to whittle a stick to a sharp enough point that you can stab yourself in the ear and end the nightmare.

   @Stabs: About as much care as goes into my cooking in real life, although there is some symmetry in it, because at the end of both I’m left with a steaming pile of unusable crap that I throw in the nearest bin.

4. pjharvey Says:
   February 12th, 2010 at 12:07 pm

   My anti-spam word is: ‘It’s possible to look at the effort required in crafting being the collecting of all the required materials, particularly if some of those materials need to be crafted themselves. Having to forage for and find all those materials that go together in order for you to make that button click can take a fair bit of time.

   ‘Of course, that can easily be dismissed as not ‘crafting’ but ‘gathering’, and quite reasonably. A gatherer could hand all the materials to the crafter and you’re left with your single-click-of-unskilled-craftiness. Your excellent cooking analogy works here too.’

   That’s a big captcha, and amazingly coincides with what I was going to write anyway.

5. Stabs Says:
   February 12th, 2010 at 1:23 pm

   @ Melmoth So what you’re saying essentially is that it’s a remarkably accurate simulation of real life. Well done everyone! Champers all round!

   @pj Now that sir is a truly remarkable coincidence. My capcha as it happens is an original composition for bass and trombone which I hope to be conducting at the Royal Albert Hall this autumn.

6. Dblade Says:
   February 14th, 2010 at 3:50 am

   Is it really being heroic when you beat up on rabbits and sheep to become more powerful? Slippery slope that keeps on slipping.