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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9642701" data-attributes="member: 6790260">That was the point. There isn't one. Because being D&D-alike gets in the way. The whole point is that the hyper-centralism of DM authority gets in the way. This isn't a criticism (as I've said like four times now...). I think the DM/GM role is useful and have said as much. But as with any tool, its use comes with both utility and limitations. That is the nature of all tools, be they concrete or abstract. The Law of Non-contradiction is a tool, which limits what we are allowed to talk about (it makes it so we cannot engage with contradictions in a meaningful way), but by adopting it we gain the extremely powerful ability to do proof by contradiction. Using it, there is more we can prove, but less we can say (with any significance or meaning, I mean.) Avoiding it, there is less we can prove, but more statements we can make with valid meaning: its use or non-use is a trade-off between richness or description and analytic power. It is not objectively better nor worse to not use it; it is only better for particular purposes. And, much like using a DM/GM role, most of the time this tool is worth using, and the things lost when we choose to not use it may be sufficiently painful that the gain is not worth the loss. (Inconsistency-tolerant logics are fascinating, but often more for exploration than for use.)I was responding to comments I saw as needlessly reductive and adversarial first.I don't like being adversarial. At all. But when people are brusque, flippant, and dismissive, I get quite annoyed. So when I see a comment which strikes me as flippant and dismissive, I respond by inverting the logic thereof, to throw a spotlight on how the reasoning behind it seems invalid to me. It is a pithy and efficient way to do so, which thus avoids the usual problem people have with my posts, that they are too long-winded and unnecessarily detailed.(And, incidentally, this is exactly what I'm talking about when I say that if I post a long post, people complain I never get to the point; but when I post succinctly, people get mad about the succinct argument lacking nuance and detail.)No. People are putting words in my mouth and getting upset about things I never said, sometimes literally saying things as if I were somehow disagreeing with a point I had made hours or even more minutes before.</blockquote>

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