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<blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 6346122" data-attributes="member: 87792"><p>This is you reading things into what I am saying <em>that explicitly contradict what I have said on this thread.</em> There is a difference between trying to figure something out with terms you think fit (as was done initially) as working terms that aren't ideal, and waving banners around.</p><p></p><p>I have no problem with the initial choice of terms. It was, as I have said, trying to think something through. But they should have been left on that thread.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>OK. My position is that the dichotomy is both inaccurate and condescending.</p><p></p><p>If we want more accuracy, a desire for mismatched fights should replace Combat as War with Combat as Bullying - and a desire for any means necessary including destruction of habitats, burning down forests, and collapsing dungeons, when undertaken by a small cell of people, isn't Combat as War so much as Combat as Terrorism.</p><p></p><p>It's condescending and inflammatory because of the gap in seriousness.</p><p></p><p>Both need dealing with if the term is to be useful for anything desirable rather than as a banner in the edition wars. And although the insight of strategic vs tactical play is useful using terms that are simultaneously inaccurate and insulting is going to get you nowhere useful.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Neonchameleon, post: 6346122, member: 87792"] This is you reading things into what I am saying [I]that explicitly contradict what I have said on this thread.[/I] There is a difference between trying to figure something out with terms you think fit (as was done initially) as working terms that aren't ideal, and waving banners around. I have no problem with the initial choice of terms. It was, as I have said, trying to think something through. But they should have been left on that thread. OK. My position is that the dichotomy is both inaccurate and condescending. If we want more accuracy, a desire for mismatched fights should replace Combat as War with Combat as Bullying - and a desire for any means necessary including destruction of habitats, burning down forests, and collapsing dungeons, when undertaken by a small cell of people, isn't Combat as War so much as Combat as Terrorism. It's condescending and inflammatory because of the gap in seriousness. Both need dealing with if the term is to be useful for anything desirable rather than as a banner in the edition wars. And although the insight of strategic vs tactical play is useful using terms that are simultaneously inaccurate and insulting is going to get you nowhere useful. [/QUOTE]
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