This game is artificially difficult
Spoken without awareness?
Spoken from a place of irony?
Artificially?
This game is a construct
An edifice of artifice
All games are constructs
All edifices of artifice
Don't cry
Difficulty isn't
You not having countless powers
Artificial Difficulty
Would be
Perfectly balanced
Encounters
That wreck
Your shit
Or
Would be
Perfectly balanced
Encounters
That have
No chance of failure
Artificially
How
Difficult
Compared to?
Just as logical to
Claim
Your game is
Artificially Easy
Hm...this intrigued me. I think it's about life being neither hard nor easy, because those are arbitrary qualifiers, but I'm not sure?
It probably could be read that way, but I wrote this literally about someone who I briefly played D&D with and complained about how "artificially difficult" the version I ran was.
Oh. You made me be accidentally philosophical :lulz:
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 09, 2015, 11:39:03 PM
It probably could be read that way, but I wrote this literally about someone who I briefly played D&D with and complained about how "artificially difficult" the version I ran was.
:lulz:
Well a professor once told me that you can't over-read into a poem so long as you can support your opinion with in the piece.
If anything, it's about the uselessness of using a term like "artificially" to describe certain concepts. In order for a thing to be artificially difficult there would need to be a natural or default difficulty.
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on October 09, 2015, 11:48:35 PM
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 09, 2015, 11:39:03 PM
It probably could be read that way, but I wrote this literally about someone who I briefly played D&D with and complained about how "artificially difficult" the version I ran was.
:lulz:
She is one person I don't really feel bad about not being friends with anymore. There was some other fallout over the situation that prompted this.
But seriously, when playing one of the earliest versions of a game, its difficulty should be taken as a default.
Shit like that, people crying about how hard the game I am running is, is why I have basically stopped trying to run anything based on D&D.
https://soundcloud.com/ian-woolley-9/artificial-entertainment
I dig it. I always hear that term "artificial difficulty" from people who look down their noses at "casual gamers" and I never really got it. Look, there are some types of challenges you enjoy, some you don't. No need to hang an honorific on one.