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No More "Humans in Funny Hats": Racial Mechanics Should Determine Racial Cultures
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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8386026" data-attributes="member: 6704184"><p>Except it isn’t, you read a statement that your preference shouldn’t become the exclusive take of the game as somehow a statement that only one preference should reign supreme. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🙄" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" title="Face with rolling eyes :rolling_eyes:" data-shortname=":rolling_eyes:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /></p><p></p><p>What’s clear is a pattern of condescension, among other distasteful behaviors. </p><p></p><p>This is directly opposite the case. You are arguing an absolute, that all races must be alien in mindset. I am arguing that because we know factually that players are generally split on how alien races should be, we also know that the player base in general will be best served by not making every single race alien. I then said, explicitly, that it is also objectively the case that some races should be alien, to serve the preferences of players that want such races. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p>Again, I absolutely never claimed that any specific preference is better or worse. The <em>only</em> thing that is objective here, is what I claimed is objective, which is that the player base has a gamut of preference on the subject of alien mindsets in PC races, and thus <em>there should be races that cater to a preference other than your own. </em> </p><p> </p><p>That is literally what my first statement, that you tilted at a strawman of, means. That the game should not exclusively cater to your preference, but should instead serve both. </p><p> </p><p>Your intentional sniping in order to try and modify my behavior is wildly inappropriate, and in this case quite misguided. My first statement was stated no more “objectively” than what it was in reply to.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 8386026, member: 6704184"] Except it isn’t, you read a statement that your preference shouldn’t become the exclusive take of the game as somehow a statement that only one preference should reign supreme. 🙄 What’s clear is a pattern of condescension, among other distasteful behaviors. This is directly opposite the case. You are arguing an absolute, that all races must be alien in mindset. I am arguing that because we know factually that players are generally split on how alien races should be, we also know that the player base in general will be best served by not making every single race alien. I then said, explicitly, that it is also objectively the case that some races should be alien, to serve the preferences of players that want such races. Again, I absolutely never claimed that any specific preference is better or worse. The [I]only[/I] thing that is objective here, is what I claimed is objective, which is that the player base has a gamut of preference on the subject of alien mindsets in PC races, and thus [I]there should be races that cater to a preference other than your own. [/I] That is literally what my first statement, that you tilted at a strawman of, means. That the game should not exclusively cater to your preference, but should instead serve both. Your intentional sniping in order to try and modify my behavior is wildly inappropriate, and in this case quite misguided. My first statement was stated no more “objectively” than what it was in reply to. [/QUOTE]
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