The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

"X thing doesn't matter at all, and I hate that Y happened."

"It might not matter a lot, but it does matter. The fact that you care about this topic proves this."

"So you're saying that it matters more than literally everything else!!! See how extreme your opinion is!?!?"

I swear, this exact exchange has happened literally dozens of times on this site over the past two years.

 

[Ryujin]

"X thing doesn't matter at all, and I hate that Y happened."

"It might not matter a lot, but it does matter. The fact that you care about this topic proves this."

"So you're saying that it matters more than literally everything else!!! See how extreme your opinion is!?!?"

I swear, this exact exchange has happened literally dozens of times on this site over the past two years.

"But I don't care about the thing. That's why I came here to say that I don't care about the thing."

 

[Umbran]

Well, technically... yes, that's exactly right... You're attempting to turn something that's entirely a matter of degrees into a binary yes/no paradigm where the dividing lines are arbitrarily set by your personal preferences.

Well, yeah. How else are you supposed to win the argument and probve the other person is Wrongity-wrong, with wrong sauce?

 

[Parmandur]

Well, yeah. How else are you supposed to win the argument and probve the other person is Wrongity-wrong, with wrong sauce?

It's not about winning or losing, arguing is just fun. It's about the journey, not the destination.

 

[Deset Gled]

It's not about winning or losing, arguing is just fun. It's about the journey, not the destination.

One of the things I miss about 3.x edition was really good, high quality rules arguments. The rules lawyering we get in 5e just isn't up to par.

 

[Umbran]

It's not about winning or losing, arguing is just fun. It's about the journey, not the destination.

This is belied by all the insults that get worked into it. Sorry.

 

[Parmandur]

This is belied by all the insults that get worked into it. Sorry.

That's wht the ignore option is for, when the fun stops and becomes tedium.

 

[Ryujin]

One of the things I miss about 3.x edition was really good, high quality rules arguments. The rules lawyering we get in 5e just isn't up to par.

Don't make the language in rules ambiguous, if you don't want me to rules lawyer the crap out of it

 

[Parmandur]

One of the things I miss about 3.x edition was really good, high quality rules arguments. The rules lawyering we get in 5e just isn't up to par.

I mean, they fixed it, what is there to argue about?

Arguing about anything is just as good. Like pizza toppings.

 

[Umbran]

That's wht the ignore option is for, when the fun stops and becomes tedium.

So, you see, the fact that you need that proves your assertion wrong. If, to the assembled posters, it were about the "fun of arguing," folks can and would just politely disengage. The fact that you need to force the issue is evidence that it isn't about "fun of arguing."