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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheCosmicKid" data-source="post: 8039119" data-attributes="member: 6683613">You skipped the part asking why you're driving this conversation in circles and whether that's getting you anywhere in order to double down on driving this conversation around in circles. Why did you do that? Is that getting you anywhere?Anyway, there's only one new point I'd like to address; the rest is reassertion, and I'm not interested.Yes. That's exactly what we're doing. Reading a one-paragraph description and applying it to a game for dozens or hundreds of sessions is always going to be a process of interpretation. What's going on here is not that we have the canonical truth of the matter and you don't. What's going on here is that we and you have competing interpretations. We read the words one way, you insist they be read another way.You might think at this point that the issue becomes subjective and there's no more to be said. Under other circumstances, that could be true. The problem here is that your interpretations lead to silly contradictions, and our interpretations don't. And that you're trying to convince us to adopt your interpretations. Why on earth would we do that? Why would we throw away something that works for something that doesn't? You seem to be actively trying to make things worse, and you keep dodging the question of why.But anyway: competing interpretations. You go on to wonder if our interpretation has something to do with emperorship versus kingship -- you're speculating about what our interpretation is. But you don't need to speculate. We have been trying to tell you all along how we interpret these concepts. If you want to know, all you have to do is stop rejecting, contradicting, or ignoring what we're telling you. When I explain, e.g., how despotism can be chaotic if it causes chaos through instability, instead of reasserting your own contradictory interpretation again and again, try just saying, "Huh, that makes more sense, I understand better now how this system works for you, thank you."Or you could keep arguing at people who are very obviously not buying what you're selling.Up to you.</blockquote>

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