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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 7856568" data-attributes="member: 18">Your argument is fundamentally wrong. Canon is not a synonym for history or knowledge. Canon is what is regarded as true or untrue in the current "official" version of a setting. You can know this without knowing the history of a setting or franchise or whatever. In fact you often see this today - many younger hardcore Star Wars fans know what is current "canon" whilst knowing very little about the history of SW. Obviously you can have an opinion whilst being completely ignorant. Many people do! But that opinion is of low value if no knowledge backs it up. You claimed you want to "discuss" these sort of issues. That cannot really happen if you are ignorant on the topic. If I want to discuss the October Revolution, but know nothing about the history of communism beyond "Stalin was a bad dude", I am not going to be very capable of engaging meaningfully in that discussion. So far, you've simply joined in insulting me because I know stuff and have an informed opinion rather than an ignorant one. I don't think that's very cool. So to reiterate. Yes, if you know nothing about Planescape you can have an opinion about changes you know literally nothing about. But you have a rubbish opinion. It would be like me discussing the Seattle Seahawks performance in 2007 or something. Yeah I can say they rock or suck, but I'm talking rubbish.</blockquote>