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Very odd to read an article in 2021 written for an (American!) audience that the editor judged needs an explanation of what D&D is. Can The New Yorker's audienc
by wly_cdgr 5y ago
Very odd to read an article in 2021 written for an (American!) audience that the editor judged needs an explanation of what D&D is. Can The New Yorker's audience really be THAT out of touch?
- eru 5y agoNot everyone is familiar with all aspects of (pop) culture. Giving a brief explanation helps the parts of the audience that need it, and everyone else can just quickly gloss over it. I am sure there's plenty of stuff that I found obvious that you don't know, and vice versa.
- nikanj 5y agoCan't please everyone, the next commenter is going to complain how some article assumes everyone knows the basic rules of baseball.
- theshrike79 5y agoAs a non-American, I have no clue how Baseball works. It's just chonky dudes chewing tobacco and hitting a ball really hard. Then sauntering over to a white pillow for a rest, right? =)
- eru 5y agoFrom what I've heard, Baseball is like a simplified, Americanified version of Cricket. Something like Baseball used to be called Rounders and played by pupils. (Of course, I have at most the vaguest idea how Cricket works.)
- wly_cdgr 5y agoBaseball is just golf for the working class
- eru 5y agoGolf also used to be the golf of the common people, too.
- wly_cdgr 5y agoI am not mad about it, I am just surprised. It's been a long time since I've met an American of any class or generation who hasn't heard of D&D. D&D isn't Firefly, it's Seinfeld