The power of Framing

[Grumph]

“Gatorade has the electrolytes plants crave!”


Here’s a fun video. titled ‘Yeli Stall’… interesting framing from a dude called the Shidiot?

In particular with video evidence. Providing a play by play is such powerful framing because ain’t nobody got time for watching that shiz.


However, maybe there’s enough contrast in the two following narratives to pique your curiosity:


Opinion 1 (24 seconds):

0:34 Lord Yelinak engages Detoxx (V)

0:41 Detoxx (V) is out of range of Yelinak

0:57 Nexii (R) targets Detoxx (V) who is at 100% health

0:58 Detoxx’s (V) health drops to 90% when he is hit by Yelinak.



Opinion 2 (30 seconds):

0:34 - Lord Yelinak engages Detoxx! <Vanquish>

0:41 - Detoxx <Vanquish> seen standing in the middle of the room out of range

0:50 - Detoxx <Vanquish> moves up slightly but still out of range

0:53 - Vanquish Clerics position in room and start casting (Aegoboy)

0:54 - Detoxx <Vanquish> moves up slightly but still out of range

1:01 - Detoxx <Vanquish> assumes a defensive fighting style

1:04 - Detoxx <Vanquish> moves up, Detoxx & Lord Yelinak begin melee-attacking


But rest assured travelers, this discussion is about deep and meaningful character issues:

“it’s important that guilds do not engage a mob until they are ready to kill it.

The spirit of the rule… is to prevent guilds from locking up a target…

… you want an exact number of seconds, or players, or DPS done. (?!?!?!?!?)

But

the fact is that’s just not realistic…with guilds…vastly different in numbers and strength… competing for the same content.”

You see we’re discussing spiritual issues. Not just a 6 second difference. And assuredly not a manipulative attempt to guilt trip for free mobs.

And the spirit is that you shouldn’t waste others time with weak attempts - but it’s not up for discussion what a legit attempt is because we can’t exclude another competing guilds no matter how small and weak they may be.

Logic! Spiritual Logic!

The most important thing here is the statement about the spirit of this rule stated above.