Penny Arcade - Comic - Le Rouge
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Le Rouge
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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Magnus the Red is proof that brilliance and stupidity are not opposites, but can coexist within the same mind with disastrous results.
https://www.google.com/search?q=who+is+magnus+the+red
"You came in here like some kinda crazy judgmental Witch Hunter, burning everything down and accusing me of doing evil magic and making deals with demons when you didn't even have all the facts!"
"...were you doing those things, though?"
"...look this isn't about me."
Or something.
I hated that in DA2.
"Thank you for defending me against those nasty accusations of blood magic. Now excuse me while I magic some of this blood…"
Don't use Fandom-affiliated wikis if you can help it!
https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Magnus
I like to compare it to intelligence vs wisdom. Yeah, you may be very smart/educated/etc, but have absolutely no common sense as to how and when to apply that intellect. And because of that intellect, you can do even more damage than would otherwise be possible when using it poorly.
You run into this issue with alarming frequency in highly specialized fields. Arguably brilliant people that (mild hyperbole) would forget to breathe if their body didn't have autonomic functions handling that for them. And because they lack scope of experience to know better, they think their brilliance applies universally, and that anyone not matching their specialization is a lesser being whose input is irrelevant.
Okay, you are going to have to explain this one to me. What is wrong with fandom affiliated wikis?
Intrusive ads, heavy-handed corporate editorial control, lower quality compared to independent wikis, constant layoffs...
The other relevant metaphor is that if your dad tells you that he's going to take a nap and not to disturb him but the house starts burning, you might reasonably assume that he wants to be woken up in that instance as opposed to being allowed to nap. The Emperor's unwillingness to fill in his children on the delicate nature of his project, e.g. in this particular instance not to disturb him even if the house is burning or even to delegate handling of such emergencies to another contact (admittedly possibly difficult if said contact was in on the coup), was also a coexistence of brilliance and stupidity. Plus a lot of pride as well. The primarchs all took after the Emperor in a lot of ways and not always in good ways.
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Fandom the company is pretty terrible.
Fandom in general is wonderful, but the company is focused on commodifying the word and blurring the lines between fans and the media company.
Here are some of the issues:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fandom_(website)#Controversies
And the current owners (very different from the founders):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPG_Inc.