So I am going to be as brief and positive as possible. I do not think it is helpful to try and just argue something without understanding what the person was saying. I think if you look at what I wrote, you probably realized that I probably wasn't
advocating for a call Jake system. Which ... yeah.
Here, I would point out that what you are saying is neither correct nor incorrect, but wholly orthogonal to what I was saying. I will be completely explicit-
the whole point was not that the method of adjudication doesn't matter for other reasons, but that for a ruleset, once an outside referent is used for adjudication that will return a result, that process is considered "complete" for purposes of the ruleset. The actual process doesn't matter. It was really more
Chinese Room (which I referred to) than anything else.
It's really not that hard. You could add in "roll dice." "Call Larry." "Use random numbers generated from the phone book." "Play Rochambeau." Or ... whatever. That was the point!
That some methods are preferable to others ... was not the point. Yes, dice can be loaded. Coins can be manipulated. Hidden rolls can be fudged. You might not know anyone named Jake. Larry might be on vacation. Phone books might not exist anymore. Etc. So if you want to get into a conversation about your favorite methods of adjudication, feel free to! But you know- maybe not with me, and not using my post?
Good? Great!