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But that's what fans are for

People talked about it a ton when it was new.

I think you missed the point of why I said that.

Yee. As an aside, by "education", I mean any kind of knowledge. Many successful people have at least a small degree of intuitive knowledge— stuff they understand but weren't explicitly taught. They may not even realize that they understand it and others don't, because it came naturally.

1. A vent is a vent. Usually people are looking for others who understand where they're coming from even if they disagree.
2. It was a non-rhetorical question. What really do I know for sure?
3. Others' opinions and insights, potential for my viewpoint to change. It's almost as if sticking to your first opinion and being stubborn about it is dumb, yeah?

Okay, yeah. Basically magical thinking— thinking that if someone succeeds, they are just special. Which is wrong. In reality, most of it is education, hard work, being first, getting good exposure, and plain old luck. And finishing a novel— even a shitty one— is hard work.

That's fair, though Sorcerer's Stone really wasn't written better than later installments.

Thanks for this. Might give it a watch later. ^^

I would also like to call "third-party" content creators "fans" in this case too, in which case that is absolutely true. Extended universe? Clone Wars show? Comic books? Novels? All that third-party Star Wars content is pretty passionate. This is also true of Sonic— Archie and the ascended fan game Sonic Chronicles cared a lot more about Sonic's universe than SEGA did.

By that last sentence, do you mean "but you can't seem to accept", or "you should accept"?

No. You can succeed at something and still be a moron. Look at Elon Musk. Look at George Lucas' early drafts and his acting-direction we have footage of. Both Han Solo and Padme told him the dialogue was amazingly stupid, and George just argued with them that it would be good.