For me, to be immersive a story has to be at least mostly plausible. Which is why I greatly dislike the type 1 protagonists. It's just the classic James Bond villain, or the evil empire's convenient … (View Post)

@Stinky Except that I'm not using 'art' as some dressed-up synonym for 'awesome'. I can see something as art despite it not leaving a very lasting expression on me personally; I can experience someth… (View Post)

Indeed. Because the abilities you have when reaching ToB is the only reasonable point of comparison when comparing the classes... (View Post)

I would say that the cathedral actually is a single work of art, since you cannot separate out the individual contributions into smaller works of art. Even if conceived of by multiple people, it stil… (View Post)

The problem with that view is that it pushes the notion of what constitutes art into an entirely subjective realm. Basically, it becomes defined as "an object or performance that affects [you] i… (View Post)