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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5977300" data-attributes="member: 54877">I realize this is a definitional dispute, but I disagree with the idea that &quot;modular&quot; equals &quot;house rule.&quot; I will agree that it is often more a matter of degree than of kind, and there will be a lot of fuzzy areas. There will even be some where to get it to work the way you want, you activate a module, and then house rule from there. But there's a huge difference between working systems that I can swap in or out, dial up or down, switch on and off -- versus something I put together myself out of duct tape and bailing wire. &nbsp;Not least of all, I disagree with that thinking because it sets a really low bar for &quot;module&quot;. It turns &quot;module&quot; into &quot;some crap the designer through together and maybe tested a bit,&quot; or more positively put, but the same thing, &quot;a designer's house rule with professional presentation.&quot; <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />&nbsp;&quot;Modular&quot; is when you take one kind of trailer off your truck and put another trailer on the hitch, switching out the light connections. &quot;House rule&quot; is when you weld a piece of metal with a hole in it to the back of your truck frame, then wire the lights up yourself. They may both haul your boat equally well in the end, but one is a heck of a lot more work than the other.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 5977300, member: 54877"] I realize this is a definitional dispute, but I disagree with the idea that "modular" equals "house rule." I will agree that it is often more a matter of degree than of kind, and there will be a lot of fuzzy areas. There will even be some where to get it to work the way you want, you activate a module, and then house rule from there. But there's a huge difference between [B]working[/B] systems that I can swap in or out, dial up or down, switch on and off -- versus something I put together myself out of duct tape and bailing wire. Not least of all, I disagree with that thinking because it sets a really low bar for "module". It turns "module" into "some crap the designer through together and maybe tested a bit," or more positively put, but the same thing, "a designer's house rule with professional presentation." :p "Modular" is when you take one kind of trailer off your truck and put another trailer on the hitch, switching out the light connections. "House rule" is when you weld a piece of metal with a hole in it to the back of your truck frame, then wire the lights up yourself. They may both haul your boat equally well in the end, but one is a heck of a lot more work than the other. [/QUOTE]

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