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<blockquote data-quote="Lord-Archaon" data-source="post: 7864619" data-attributes="member: 7017713"><p>Look, my position being weakened by how I put myself (in your eyes) as a "true believer" and all... It doesn't matter to me at all. Actually it's even better, because I want to demonstrate that this shouldn't be a matter of agreement with the community, but of agreement about a concept.</p><p></p><p>This stance of "there's not a single good way to look at it" is as wrong as saying there's only one way, which I didn't by the way.</p><p></p><p>There must be boundaries, agreement on what the concept is. Then there are countless ways of doing things within those boundaries. But if we take the stance of "anything can be right if it works", we just lose the concept. Then don't call it psionics, call it something else. Or call it psionics, but lose all the fans of psionics.</p><p></p><p>I brought the argument taking the most unconvincing and hostile stance, and unsurprisingly I didn't convince anyone or nearly so. But you know that if I would have been more diplomatic about it, you would have admitted that the things I was pointing at were actual problems given the concept they were trying to portray, or maybe admitted that the portrayed things were not the ones generally called Psionics.</p><p></p><p>I didn't even try to be convincing or diplomatic, because I don't think this is how the problem will be solved. This thing needs a MESS, a STINK to be noticed by the designers. I tweeted directly to the designer as well, and fortunately got a bit of attention.</p><p>The majority of people just act like they don't care, because they care more about how they are perceived in the community, so they want to take the stance of those who find good and bad points everywhere and everything is interesting, but not too much etc. This stance will never move the designers in a clear direction. And seeing how things are going so much against tropes, you will thank me later if my "weak position" will actually make enough noise to justify a steering of direction. Because if things stay like this, Psionics is not going to be the only thing going to hell.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lord-Archaon, post: 7864619, member: 7017713"] Look, my position being weakened by how I put myself (in your eyes) as a "true believer" and all... It doesn't matter to me at all. Actually it's even better, because I want to demonstrate that this shouldn't be a matter of agreement with the community, but of agreement about a concept. This stance of "there's not a single good way to look at it" is as wrong as saying there's only one way, which I didn't by the way. There must be boundaries, agreement on what the concept is. Then there are countless ways of doing things within those boundaries. But if we take the stance of "anything can be right if it works", we just lose the concept. Then don't call it psionics, call it something else. Or call it psionics, but lose all the fans of psionics. I brought the argument taking the most unconvincing and hostile stance, and unsurprisingly I didn't convince anyone or nearly so. But you know that if I would have been more diplomatic about it, you would have admitted that the things I was pointing at were actual problems given the concept they were trying to portray, or maybe admitted that the portrayed things were not the ones generally called Psionics. I didn't even try to be convincing or diplomatic, because I don't think this is how the problem will be solved. This thing needs a MESS, a STINK to be noticed by the designers. I tweeted directly to the designer as well, and fortunately got a bit of attention. The majority of people just act like they don't care, because they care more about how they are perceived in the community, so they want to take the stance of those who find good and bad points everywhere and everything is interesting, but not too much etc. This stance will never move the designers in a clear direction. And seeing how things are going so much against tropes, you will thank me later if my "weak position" will actually make enough noise to justify a steering of direction. Because if things stay like this, Psionics is not going to be the only thing going to hell. [/QUOTE]
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