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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ruemere" data-source="post: 1502804" data-attributes="member: 5515">Unbelievable.From the very start Alzrius managed to ignore all Hong's points (and queries).FYI, the stubborness of Alzrius apparent ignorance... oh, there was no rebuking any significant points by Hong, but I am willing to give the A-Kitten benefit of doubt - hence the use of "apparent"... anyway, the sheer will required to carry on with dodging all Hong questions is unbelievable.Ah, the bittersweet taste of nostalgia from days of .advocacy...Anyway, for the benefit of all:- "deus ex machina" (quoting Merriam Webster online) "2 : a person or thing (as in fiction or drama) that appears or is introduced suddenly and unexpectedly and provides a contrived solution to an apparently insoluble difficulty"Point goes to Hong. As everyone can see there is no Deus ex Machina in the story, merely a somewhat expectable deity intervention somewhere in the beginning.- Alzrius: "Cool. That changes the context - and had it been clear that he was some sort of militant atheist, I'd have said differently; since that changes the tone of the entire story."This is General RPG Discussion. The only thing changed are unwarranted assumptions, like assigning d20 qualities to Blackguard term or assigning nonexistent prestige class prerequisites to Blackguard prestige class or overinterpreting core rules of d20 on divine spellcasters (what deities are listed as granting divine spells to Druids in the core rulebooks?). Point awarded to Hong.- Alzrius: "I'm making the apparently safe assumption, based on the text given, that there's no reason to say this world would be different."- Alzrius (a bit earlier): "And if this webfic was about Darth Vader, you'd have a great point; but it isn't. Basically, there's no reason not to assume this is a D&D-style setting. Why not? Everything about what was posted above smacks of it, down to the deities who interfere in mortal lives. Nothing Gez said gave any reason to assume this was anything other than a D&D-type blackguard."This is not how the logic works. I'm rather glad to say but these statement are very easily falsified and as such are a little... to put it nicely... lacking in value.Point awarded to Hong.Round one ends here as the rest of this discussion is rather repetitive.Alzrius:Hong 0:3Regards,RuemerePS. I'm always amazed how it is easy for the people to defy reason because they cannot seem to acknowledge that they may have been wrong.</blockquote>

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