Zouayne Shyce wrote:This is simply wrong. I understand how the system approximately works, the other people here don't even question that. And the debate was never about how it works, so there was nothing to prove wrong there. I said what I think whythe system is bad and pointed out which rather inconvenient, silly, stupid, annoying or whatever effects it can cause. Nobody ever proved anything of that wrong, they rather all evaded the topic, probably because they wanted to avoid getting involved in a debate they wouldn't be able to win. Because they somehow know, see or at least feel that I'm having a point there. You really managed to get everything wrong one can get wrong about this whole debate. You'd better go and get some sleep, maybe?
By the way, forced condescencion ("I'd like to see you settle in...") only impresses intellectually rather challenged people, for others it's more a cause for vicarious embarrassment.
Zouayne Shyce wrote:and the latter makes me think. It's a win-win.
If reading random stuff into badly modelled, random bs-stats inspires you, knock yourself out. If you like that kind of making sense of the senseless, I'd also recommend astrology and numerology.
The Church of Satan wrote:That's where we disagree. Your idea of fun and ours are clearly different. Nevermind that revamping the stats means revamping every issue ever written. All what, 1200+ of them? Your suggesting the entire system be changed because one person, you, thinks it should be different. So far, nobody seems to agree with you on that. More than that, one of NationStates' senior moderators has already said it isn't happening. Your suggestion died at that point. You'll just have to accept it. :-/
First of all, I seem to be the only person of all the people debating here who even fully understands what's wrong with it and what's the reason for many other things people complain about time and again. Most people won't even understand my very point, because it takes a little bit of thinking and the patience to concentratedly read more than two sentences in a row. It's quite telling that nobody here ever responded anything to my points as to why I think the system is so bad in the first place. However, I'm not the only stats-hater here and I won't be the last. My gf, who runs the region with me, is annoyed with it as well.
And you, of course, should have fun as you damn please. But why don't you just do it instead of posting in my thread all the time? I actually seem to have hit a mark you would have preferred to never see being hit and feel compelled to debate it out of the world - or at least out of your head. Right? You'll say no, but I know it's approximately what's going on.
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