David, you use a lot of words, but at the end you confirm that Windsor's Romantic and Cohen's Soloist are the same. I can't see the "contrast" you announced, apart of some tiny rhetoric nuances. As mentioned, I'm not at all interested in quibbles. It's only the conceptual meaning that counts.
Whatever, I used and still use the term Soloist synonymously for Windsor's Romantic, because I think "Romantic" can be misunderstood by many readers who associate it with love and romance. Same with "Classicist", a term than can also be misunderstood. Soloist and Drawist are clear and self-explaining. I used these terms long before I knew that you claim a copyright on "Soloist", which now of course I deny.
David E. Cohen wrote:Strategus wrote:Seriously though, I really find David E Cohen's post interesting. I never heard of the Romantic category before. But reading the suggested traits, I can't quite decide which fits me best. It would be interesting to do a questionnaire and see how people answer each aspect (strongly agree.... strongly disagree), and the percentages/stats on it.
Give Paul Windsor's article a read. It is interesting, even if i do not agree with a lot of it. I was aware of it when I wrote the Soloist Manifesto, though I do not think it influenced me in any meaningful way.
Of course it wasn't Windsor's article that influenced you. It was being a Romantic = Soloist that urged you to promote your player personality as superior, so much that you wrote a manifest. Interestingly, from the four personality types described by Windsor it is only the Romantic (= Soloist) who has an urge to claim for his style, that is soloism. Or have you ever seen a drawist, or a deviate, or a club player doing promotion for his style?
And that's the difference between your and Windsor's article. Yours is a manifest, a promotion for your standpoint, while Windsor's is the result and description of long lasting observations, and a trial of a classification based on that, hence an essay. You cannot "not agree" with observations, but one can decline a promotional manifesto. And I do so, as far as you think your Diplomacy personality is any better than those of your disdained "Newbies", or those you call disparagingly "drawmongers".
Jack