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@Abetillo
"Almost no one has read a gore comic", Oh boy, a heavily generalized statement about everyone's lack of understanding about your self-proclaimed niche. I remember making these a lot back in college. lol
I was like you a while back too when it came to RPGs. I used to run around correcting people about the definition, even though games that are 'technically' RPGs are almost nonexistent compared to the hundreds of modern RPGs today. (there are some watered down Wizardry clones on handhelds atm, but nowadays a lot of action games are defined as RPGs). Fact is, entire generations are growing up with games like Fallout being called RPGs. Am I supposed to argue with their entire childhood to correct them? lol
My advice to you is to only bring up your definition while keeping common sense in mind. Because if "most people" don't know your niche and those same "most people" are into a niche that goes by the same name that has held ground for decades, they'll only get confused if you argue while they don't know your stance on the definition.
It's like telling someone "I'd like a drink" when you're at an American bar. They serve you alcohol and you argue for ten minutes as if the problem is obvious, only to finally say "Uuhh, no one would serve that this time of day where I come from ." and you happen to come from some country in Africa with niche alcohol rules.
No one is really at fault in that situation if you aren't aware it's an issue to start with, but you can avoid some unnecessary back and forth once you know. And that's ten minutes you could be sipping dat good ol African vitamin C!
"Almost no one has read a gore comic", Oh boy, a heavily generalized statement about everyone's lack of understanding about your self-proclaimed niche. I remember making these a lot back in college. lol
I was like you a while back too when it came to RPGs. I used to run around correcting people about the definition, even though games that are 'technically' RPGs are almost nonexistent compared to the hundreds of modern RPGs today. (there are some watered down Wizardry clones on handhelds atm, but nowadays a lot of action games are defined as RPGs). Fact is, entire generations are growing up with games like Fallout being called RPGs. Am I supposed to argue with their entire childhood to correct them? lol
My advice to you is to only bring up your definition while keeping common sense in mind. Because if "most people" don't know your niche and those same "most people" are into a niche that goes by the same name that has held ground for decades, they'll only get confused if you argue while they don't know your stance on the definition.
It's like telling someone "I'd like a drink" when you're at an American bar. They serve you alcohol and you argue for ten minutes as if the problem is obvious, only to finally say "Uuhh, no one would serve that this time of day where I come from ." and you happen to come from some country in Africa with niche alcohol rules.
No one is really at fault in that situation if you aren't aware it's an issue to start with, but you can avoid some unnecessary back and forth once you know. And that's ten minutes you could be sipping dat good ol African vitamin C!
