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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 4886304" data-attributes="member: 18280">If you like.  Statements of the kind I was replying to are, IMHO, hazardous to leave unchallenged.A dichotomy requires, by definition, that there by an opposing and mutually exclusive distinction between the terms.  The terms can have value, and be used, without accepting any such division.  Indeed, there is a great deal of difference between saying "there is no dichotomy" and "there is no division".I would suggest that (as with edition wars) this is largely due to a perceived (or real) desultory denial of the other side's position.  For example, there is no edition war where people are willing to accept that any given edition is going to have good and bad properties.  Edition wars exist specifically as a direct result of the claim that (1) Edition X is without flaw, or (2) Edition Y is mostly flawed.  Both are, essentially, ways of saying "My game rocks of choice, and yours sucks poodoo."  If you enjoy what you are playing (and if you do not, why are you playing?) it is a difficult cheese to swallow."OS does not exist" is exactly that sort of desultory denial.  If nothing has changed (i.e., there is no division between OS and NS, and the term is meaningless), then those people playing OS games, or playing NS games in an OS way, are self-deluded.  What they enjoy simply doesn't exist.One can acknowledge the existence of multiple game/play styles without fighting over it.  One cannot disavow their existence without starting a fight.RC</blockquote>

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