Ami AngelwingsMar 5

#QuestionOfTheDay what's the most tedious fandom/hobby argument you've ever been apart of? (no judgment)

And what's the most interesting fandom/hobby argument you've ever been part of?

#fandom #fiction #anime #manga #videogames #gaming #fantasy #scifi #ttrpg #ccgs #books #Boardgames #music #movies #film #TV #television #musicals #comics #comicbooks #superheroes

Show threadHecco the DolphinMar 5
@ami_angelwings the most tedious one for me recently was Helldivers 2 fans trying to paint Super Earth as being "good", just because everyone else is also bad. They're strapping nuked to teens and telling them to run at the enemy, they're not "good" by any means.
Show threadHecco the Dolphin
@ami_angelwings one of the more interesting (but completely unimportant at the end of the day) discussions I've never had was about what constitutes a "piece of music".
Is every recording of Moonlight Sonata a new piece of music? Is the original manuscript the piece? Are reproductions of the score the same piece of music? What if they misprint a note? If someone transcribes it by ear and they hear different rhythms than Beethoven intended, have they made a new piece?
Mar 5 at 9:16amWeb
Show threadHecco the DolphinMar 5

@ami_angelwings If a player makes stylistic decisions, have they altered the piece? Is it a new piece?

It seemed a lot of people considered a musical to be a piece, but no one could agree on what that piece was. Is it the original score, the first performance, the first recording, or even the first filming? Was every performance of it a performance of the same piece, or were they different?

Show threadHecco the DolphinMar 5

@ami_angelwings Does the order of the songs in a show matter? Because Love Never Dies changed song order several times, and the filmed production has a different order to the album. Heck the show had substantial rewrites, is it still the same show?

It's very Ship of Theseus, but with extra layers because the Ship is a physical object, while a piece of music is... so many different conceptual objects and also several physical ones, all stacked on top of each other.