Subject: I must object to "awesomely powerful."
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Posted on: 2013-06-27 02:24:00 UTC
I suspect you were just being facetious there, but that's exactly the sort of thinking I'm trying to get people away from, and why people trying to make OOC resistance into a Big Thing worries me. It's not a big deal, it's not awesomely powerful, and it should not be treated as a status symbol to make anyone's favorite characters more special—especially when the question involves making them friends with agents aware of the PPC. That way lies the Urple Side.
However, when the circumstances are appropriate, it should be used to point out that driving normally wise characters to say moronic things is bad, and it should be used to call out the fanbase for sidelining characters that aren't "hawt." Those reasons involve insight and potentially humor, and are good.
Quite possibly you didn't need that lecture, but I needed to stress the point again.
On another note, correct me if I'm overreacting, but I'm getting the sense that you find the fact that we're strongly rooted in LotR to be a bad thing. I mean... yeah, the PPC is originally based in the LotR fandom, for a long time most of our members were big Tolkien nuts, and many of our core concepts and traditions come from that time and that group of people. It's not a conspiracy, just our history. Do you see that as a problem?
~Neshomeh