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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 4544108" data-attributes="member: 18280">Can we please avoid this pettiness?Hussar has some....personal issues....with me.  He sent me an email saying "This constant sniping is making both of us look bad and it's really not very constructive.  We bury the past, let it stay buried and agree to go back to arguing the hell out of things we disagree about?"  I told him I wasn't sniping (and could not), that I wasn't reading his posts (except as quoted by others), and suggested that he put me on Ignore.  I am afraid that I was not very kind about the way I said it, so I am afraid that there is probably quite a bit more "sniping" that I am not aware of.However, there is nothing wrong with saying that neither way is wrongbadfun, but that one way is less likely to result in absurd results for most users.  If you can avoid the absurd results -- don't think about it, don't narrate it, or make certain house rules seem to be the most popular ways of achieving this -- and the system gives you other things you like, why would you care what I think or what I prefer?That the new paradigm isn't the one EGG created doesn't in and of itself make the new paradigm silly, either.  It does make it a new paradigm.  There have been many shifts away from the EGG paradigm over the years, as has already been noted, and they are certainly not all (or even mostly) silly.  Some even have a level of realism or deadliness that would make EGG's hit points look silly in comparison.The aforementioned, though, isn't going to make me deny that the long-term survival of EGG's paradigm isn't indicative of the many strengths that it has.  EGG created a fantastic paradigm.That a person can argue that two things are different, rather than that one is better than the other, even though that person believes one to be better than the other shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.  Certainly you can argue that a dolphin and a shark are two different things without prefering to swim with one over the other somehow colouring your perception that they are different?RC</blockquote>

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