 plushies [side-content],” “Thats where the real hobby [game] is, collecting [playing] plushies [side-content].”
You then ranted about players complaining about side-contents implementation and the way it affected future implementation.

Both of those were about working on and adding side content. A single sentence straw-manned that side-content was actually main content.

No. It is not comparable. Saying buying MtG plushies constitutes playing the game is comparable to saying buying Hearthstone merch constitutes playing the game. The only reason why you would switch it to MtG merch here is to hide the fact that it isn’t comparable. Buying merch does not interact with the game at all. Side-content does.Nicholas Fuller, in a typically thoughtful post, outlines his own definition of a good detective story:
For me, a good detective story is also a good story in its own right. Story-telling, atmosphere, characterisation, and theme are as important as, if not more important than, the problem. The problem is crucial, but ideally, it should be the result of the theme and the characterisation.
I agree - to an extent.
As a firm believer in art for its own sake, I don't see the need for detective stories or any other kind of fiction to be "about" something. The masterful plotting of And Then They Were None and the haunting atmosphere of The Hound of the Baskervilles are sufficient justifications for the existence of the books. So "theme" to me is an irrelevant notion.
Also, while I value story-telling, atmosphere and characterization as much as anyone else, I don't think they should be given as much importance as the problem when it comes to assess the quality of a detective story, for the problem is the core, the identity of the genre. Vivid characters, convincing atmosphere and good story-telling are very rare things indeed but can be found in other genres, while the puzzle plot is a trademark of detective fiction and real mystery fiction. Call me a genre nationalist, but I think it's worth preserving and defending.
Now, as I said above, I basically agree with Nick that a detective story with not only a brilliant plot but also good story-telling, atmosphere and characterization is certainly better than one which is abysmal on all counts but the problem - and is much more frequent than critics of the genre would have us to believe. That's indeed why I like R.A. Freeman better than, say, S.S. Van Dine. But I also believe a loosely-plotted detective story cannot be quite redeemed by fine writing or sense of character. It may be good as general fiction, but as mystery fiction it's just bad.
06/01/2008
What Makes a Good Detective Story Good?
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I'd venture the suggestion that 'And Then There Were None' does have a theme which is admirably integrated with the plot - and it's 'doing justice'. It might even be said that figuring out the theme is the key to guessing whodunit in that particular book.
Indeed. But my point was not that ATTWN doesn't have a theme, but that it doesn't really matter whether it has one: its plot brilliance is enough to make it a work of art, just like Chandler's prose is enough to secure him a place in the Valhalla of American literature.
I can see Barry chuckling as he reads my praise for Chandler's writing...
Detective stories seem to show the strain of our hero as he struggles in his own little world of drink and silence only to come alive at work.
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