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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5754956" data-attributes="member: 54877">I would expect someone that has lately been lobbying heavily against &quot;semantics&quot; in arguments to eschew such bad logic--especially in something that was clearly an analogy.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />&nbsp;I started to write a detailed rebuttal, but I think it will be better to simply state that everything is not a preference, and this should be obvious with a bit of thought.&nbsp; For example, the exact system you prefer is often highly driven by preference.&nbsp; Having a system to play an RPG is not a preference, but a requirement (even if very light and ad hoc).&nbsp; Eating pizza is a preference.&nbsp; Eating is not.&nbsp; <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;But more critically, not all preferences are equally popular.&nbsp; The question asked was what was immersion's claim to some pride of place.&nbsp; It is the same claim that pizza has if you passed a law banning it everywhere.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 5754956, member: 54877"] I would expect someone that has lately been lobbying heavily against "semantics" in arguments to eschew such bad logic--especially in something that was clearly an analogy. ;) I started to write a detailed rebuttal, but I think it will be better to simply state that everything is not a preference, and this should be obvious with a bit of thought. For example, the exact system you prefer is often highly driven by preference. Having a system to play an RPG is not a preference, but a requirement (even if very light and ad hoc). Eating pizza is a preference. Eating is not. :p But more critically, not all preferences are equally popular. The question asked was what was immersion's claim to some pride of place. It is the same claim that pizza has if you passed a law banning it everywhere. [/QUOTE]

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