Oh, I don't know, in some ways it's better to be a misunderstood, underappreciated
genius and martyr.

Dan Connelly wrote:

> Re writing -- the writing is important.  An example was the "PVC Man" image...
> with an alien among toy men with a question mark over his head.  Many voters
> said the alien looked too much like the toys.  The obvious interpretation
> of this is a lack of "tech"... reusing a model.  The author responded in email
> that this was intentional -- the alien was confused because he had assumed the
> figures, which bore his resemblance, were the most intelligent life forms,
> and thus sought to contact them.  Unfortunately this wasn't mentioned
> in text, so his tech and his concept scores both likely suffered,
> as voters assumed the simpler explanation.  Knowing what he intended, I now
> consider it a novel interpretation of the theme.
>
> Dan
>
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