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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7823272" data-attributes="member: 4937">You might be surprised that I agree with you in pretty much every particular.   The problem is that the X card isn't the solution either.   If the X card is too weak to create regular negative situations, it's too weak to create regular positive situations as well.   At best (and at worst) most of the time it is just a replacement for verbal communication.  It doesn't harm much but it doesn't help much either.I'm not sure it is ridiculous. I'm 100% certain it will happen. But if by 'ridiculous' you mean it's an extreme example that will rarely occur, then I fully agree with you. But equally, all the justifications for the X card are at least as ridiculous and involve at least as rare of situations. (And notably, the less rare the situations justifying the X card are, the less rare the disruptions will be as well.) I mean multiple people advocating for the utility of the X card admit that in 100's of games they've played with it they've never once seen it touched. They just feel good about it being there even though no one ever uses it. That was the essay (or video or whatever it was) that really raised my eyebrow and started me thinking hard about what was actually going on from a psychological perspective. Maybe.  Maybe not.</blockquote>