The Business: Reactions To Being Told The Tech Writing Sucks Are Disappointing

The Beast follows up his Goodman Games video.

Beast here talks about a lot of reactions that are boggling to anyone that gets the point of competent technical writing.

The sole justification of buying any supplementary Tabletop product is to be able to use it at the table, which means you need to be able to find the information you're looking for at a glance. They are not coffee table status-striver products to be displayed, maybe read; they are to be USED.

Yet too many comments betrays that this is what they actually do and thus the comments are Revealed Preferences in action. No, morons, supplements do not need evocative language. That's what you need for writing fiction, not a supplementary product for a tabletop adventure game. You also do not need persuasive language either; you are reading a user manual, not an argument for or against a position. You need cold, clean, concise commentary on how to use the widget at that moment- no more, no less.

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Disappointing. Learn to use the right tool for the job; games are a Technical Writing medium, novels are Narrative Writing, and articles are Persuasive Writing. You lot routinely mistake Form for Function and then wonder why you fuck up so often.