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

[Parmandur]

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."

Yet here we are, having fun. At least I am. You see, we can circle over and over and over because in my bloviation I could argue about the exact shade of blue in the sky all afternoon. Because it's fun!

Journey, not the destination.

I see what you did there, too.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

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

“Spokane-style pizza is the most underrated pizza,” Scherer says in the video before plopping dough into a baking dish to begin the cooking demo. “You start off with with a Pyrex [glass pan], because Spokane actually invented the casserole.” He goes on to pile the dough with fry sauce, canned salmon, bell peppers, onions, a ton of mozzarella, and strawberries. After the pie’s baked off, he adds another zig-zag drizzle of fry sauce on top. Scherer claims that the concoction is “awesome” and that “I can see why the entire city of Spokane... really loves this pizza.”

 

[Umbran]

Yet here we are, having fun.

No. I'm not having fun. I am trying to combat an inaccurate of how discourse actually happens on this site, because this myth provides cover for bad behavior that I am tasked with addressing. Basically, you're making my job harder. Please rethink your position.

 

[Mannahnin]

This is pretty meta, man.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

This is pretty meta, man.

 

[Mad_Jack]

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 really do miss some of the 3.5 rules arguments - these days, you can't get more than half a page into a discussion before somebody starts in with the "No, that's wrong, and you're stupid. And you smell funny."...
Some of the folks on the old WotC CharOp forums were among the most skilled and articulate debaters I've ever had the pleasure of listening to.

 

[payn]

I really do miss some of the 3.5 rules arguments - these days, you can't get more than half a page into a discussion before somebody starts in with the "No, that's wrong, and you're stupid. And you smell funny."...
Some of the folks on the old WotC CharOp forums were among the most skilled and articulate debaters I've ever had the pleasure of listening to.

Yeap, these days the arguments about what the rules should be and how they should work instead of how they do.

 

[Gradine]

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.

Yeah, this is basically my entire life

 

[Gradine]

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."

The bulk of the arguments on this board are folks one-true-waying their personal preferences at (or more accurately, past) one another. There can be legitimate debate, earnest attempts to sway each other, but mostly it is "This is what I think, and it's not like I'm going to be wrong". I'm having (traumatic) flashbacks to that one guy who was always banging on about "meta-gaming" versus "role-playing". You know who I'm talking about.

I try to avoid wading into those kinds of discussions; when I let myself get into an argument I'm either doing so semi-ironically, mostly adding jokes to introduce some levity, or it's about something that I know is legitimately harmful, and it gets to the point that I don't really have a choice but to keeping pounding away at it. I have a very personal stake, for example, of people patronizing the Wizarding World, for both myself and for people I care very deeply about it. And that's certainly not about fun; it's about survival

 

[Parmandur]

No. I'm not having fun. I am trying to combat an inaccurate of how discourse actually happens on this site, because this myth provides cover for bad behavior that I am tasked with addressing. Basically, you're making my job harder. Please rethink your position.

No, I quite accurately have fun with verbal back and forth. I have zero expectation that I will or even can "convince" anybody of anything.