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My feelings on this more or less remain the same. I strongly disagree with it, and I also think it's largely impractical to cover so many huge cosmology upgrades in a single thread.
@Catzlaflame @Mr. Bambu @Firestorm808 @Maverick_Zero_X @FinePoint
Could I trouble any of you to suffer through the above and help us come to a conclusion? Here is a summary of the current arguments:
I think this is a very good thing. Reports involving those matters almost always become total circuses in the RVR thread and it would be best to handle them with more discretion.
Chiming in, I don't think the other two user's behavior are warning worthy. Tdjwo was unambiguously the provoking party and went in much more on the insults. The worst Zeona said was "clown" in response to being called a clown. If Tdjwo had done nothing wrong and I'd been in the thread at the...
I think it'd be better not to respond. This has essentially devolved into a full on non-staff CRT. This does not help anyone. I am going to be deleting some of the above comments and ask that @Wankbreaker and @Nightshade do not participate any further.
I'm not sure. I am deferring to how Ultima...
Fate Zero:
According to hermeticism, there's a power that governs dimensional theory outside of this world. It's called the 'swirl of the root', and it's a coordinate that's considered to be the beginning of all things. It's the start and the end of all creation. It's the throne of God...
This type of rhetoric is not helpful.
I am strongly in favor of this rule change, but I am not interested in moralizing it, and that sort of framing is a good way to see this proposal crash and burn and prevent us from reaching a common understanding.
As to the thread at large I'll reiterate...
My counterargument would be that the "harm" done by this level of strictness is effectively non-existent. The vast vast majority of users do not have anything like this on their profiles, and the only inconvenience inflicted upon those that do is having them change the picture. It depends on...
The discussion is ongoing. The last thread got out of hand so this one serves the purpose of acting as a reset now that the main points of contention have been established. The intention is to go point by point until the arguments have been laid out clearly, at that point Ultima is going to come...
Okay, I have applied this. I have been busy with other matters, but at some point I'll pick up the task of future threads. There's still a mountain of things that need to be removed, so it's going to be a very long process. I'll lock this thread now.
I don't think it's prudent to have the same debate with two people at the same time, so if ShadowWhoWalks still intends to produce his own response, I'll limit my reply to that once its posted. If he does not, I'll respond to you instead.
Except Shiki's dialogue literally has her saying this to Fujimaru:
What do I like? Of course it's you, the Master who summoned me.
Even if our encounter is nothing but a fleeting dream.
That's fine, but that does not mean that every slight change in dialogue comes from him, nor do I think...
I suspect that it won't be considered a potent anti-feat, although I would be interested in clarification from @Ultima_Reality as to what, if anything, would be considered an anti-feat for an entity that has apophatic statements. In the real-world analogues that use apophatic theology, it...
I can't agree really that it is pending substantiation. The purportedly omnipotent/omniscient Void Shiki asserted:
Shiki was forever floating off in a sea called the Swirl of the Root. All alone, in the shape of Shiki, inside of 「 」."
This is an excruciatingly direct assertion. She was...
There's no conceivable reason why Shiki's meeting with Mikiya in some normal location would be referenced in a description of the Root instead of the meeting in the Root that happened in the same game with this character.
To be clear, that's not at all what the word "strawman" means. In any...
Were you given permission to comment multiple times on the staff discussion thread? Staff permission is only for single post to provide one's perspective, not to continually argue with staff, unless it's renewed by somebody. I've removed your comments in the mean time, but I'll restore them if...
Essentially, I think it comes down to justification. We can justify putting Do-S's picture on her profile because that's her character design. But on a forum, I think it's reasonable to expect that users are not putting BDSM in their profile pictures or banners, even if it is official art. We...
Personally, where NSFW official outfits/designs are concerned, I am mostly of the opinion that we should only be using them when required. If a character like Do-s is hard to display in any capacity without it delving into the territory of being NSFW, I accept the reasoning that her official...
I wouldn't agree with this. Our new R>F standards stipulate a "baseline" level of existence, and in DeMatteis' cosmology that would just be the material plane itself. The notion that there are dreams underneath it wouldn't make destroying the material plane 1-A.
I don't think this follows...
Right, we could, but unless we're delving into the point of defining skimpiness so specifically that we need calc mods do a pixel calc to determine what percentage of someone's boobs are covered (and if we do I'm making @Mr. Bambu do it), we are just going to have to leave it to the good ol'...
I think it's valid to be concern about falling into a subjective rabbit hole, but unfortunately it is unavoidable. There's a famous phrase from the U.S. Supreme Court along the lines of "I know it when I see it" with regard to obscenity, because trying to define it in very specific terms is...
I see.
I won't say that there's no basis for contesting Shiki scaling to the Root, but there's already a fairly dense staff discussion going on about the Root that needs to conclude, and this thread is kind of a mess in terms of formatting. I am going to close this for now.
This is not a General Discussion thread, please don't use it as one.
With regard to the CRT: I am not even sure what exactly is being proposed, and the formatting is very difficult to follow.
It's simple. This is a description of the Root, delivered through a Craft Essence that is obtained through Shiki. The description describes a brief and impossible encounter with a noble figure as a dream. I suppose we could theorize that this is just random nonsense, but it's just very logical...
Wildstorm was an independent comic label that was later absorbed by DC. Elements of Wildstorm were introduced into DC at large, but I would be wary of accepting anything cosmology related from a Wildstorm story.
I agree, but I also think the language used to describe them has other problems as...