Thommy H:
I just don't understand why you expect a business to be supposed to be doing what essentially amounts to creating art.
I'm not going to judge things solely by how successful they are commercially though - I already made the X-Factor comparison. When someone posts a picture of a miniature, I can only judge it on merit. If we all have to add caveats to our opinions every time we say something, we'll be here all day. Yes, I'm sure it'll sell very well. Yes, Felix is very clever. It's still a pointless figure though and in an objective sense, I don't like that he's not doing something more interesting with his talent. Maybe you find that condescending, but I'm not going to apologise for believing that talented people should make the most of their abilities. I actually do think that
everyone should "create art" at every opportunity. All human achievements should be beautiful, worthwhile and ethical. Why strive for anything but the pinnacle of excellence? But we're into philosophy now...
These are gaming pieces, they are made to work together with other similar ones. That's one of their main attractions. And that's a huge problem?
It's not a "huge problem". Someone posted a picture of a model and implicitly invited opinions. I don't
care, but if pressed for that opinion, this is what it is. I didn't exactly go out of my way to knock it - I just commented in a thread on a forum I frequent quite a bit.
Look, I'm sorry if you disagree with me and some others in this thread. We're not here to achieve consensus though. It's not an attack on anything. Someone asked us what we think and we told them. I'm not having a go at you for liking it. Go ahead and buy it - I want AoW to be successful (I've bought their figures before now - see my avatar) but I wish they'd break the mould a little more often, that's all.
I *was* talking about Thommy. Who "shuts down" those who doesn't write as well as he does
This, on the other hand, is just flamebait. I don't even know what it means. Are you talking about when I don't like something in a GW publication, or my opinions about some of the rumoured WF rules? Because it seems like you're implying that, because I write, I'm not allowed to talk about writing at all without it being an implicit comparison to my own work. And that's not really fair. I may have
humorously said things like, "why didn't GW get me to write this stuff, eh?" and I may sometimes have been frustrated at the way some GW books are written, but that comes from having a degree in English Literature: I can recognise bad writing. That's not always the same thing as saying, or even thinking, that I could do it better myself.
And I have never, never,
never denigrated the writing abilities of anyone on this forum, or any non-published writer whose work has crossed my path. I've collaborated extensively with other writers for years and accusing me of "shutting down" anyone who I don't think is good enough is tantamount to accusing me of professional misconduct.