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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Swarmkeeper" data-source="post: 7800041" data-attributes="member: 6921763">You are not implying that someone isn't debating in good faith are you?  Or would that be ok since it was more than 1 post ago that you said:<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />Actually, I really don't think you are, I'm just having some fun to prove a point:  interpretation is key.Really, I think when playstyles are being discussed, we all bring our conscious and subconscious preconceived notions about how examples are being played out at a table as if the examples were being played out at our own table.  So, at times we may completely misinterpret what someone else is saying and it seems like it contradicts something they've previously said.  Tone and subtlety and the unspoken words of the playstyle all come into... um... play here in the debate.  Gotta say, for example, I'm still scratching my head at [USER=22779]@Hussar[/USER]'s insistence that one cannot fail in a contest.  I'm sure there is an interpretation that makes sense there somehow, but it makes zero sense from the perspective of my own playstyle.Hang in there, [USER=6795602]@FrogReaver[/USER], you've helped make this thread a more interesting one by drawing out many key points - made possible through not just approaching it as an "us" and "them" issue.  There's more overlap in playstyles than certain posters are willing to admit.  But, I digress, we're not really talking about playstyles, where talking about action resolution in the context of one playstyle...EDIT:  also, it appears [USER=6801328]@Elfcrusher[/USER] already summed this up much more succinctly than I did a few posts ago...</blockquote>

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