LoPan
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This is why Excommunicator is one of my favorite fellow 2010 newfags*
TBH you don't really help your case by making statements such as these:I am now done with it, and quite embittered by it since I believe this entire post, if anyone reads it, will be considered by the reader a mere opinion--an impression, and not something which was considered and written for any particular reason.
All the ego-inflation aside, there have been countless discussions of why this or that works or doesn't work in Morrowind, why those of us who like it like it despite the things that don't work, both on this very forum and on others, and when it comes to this particular forum both before and after I joined (one of the Morrowind threads was IIRC one of the reasons I finally broke and joined). And the end result of the discussion with you was pretty much "you don't see in the game what we do"; which is fine, it doesn't mean we "won" and you "lost"; but it also makes it impossible to go further since, if you weren't seeing it after a dozen pages, another dozen wasn't gonna make any difference. All it would result in is a rehashing of the exact same arguments, and nobody wants that.Sadly, this greater issue, this larger picture, was never indulged or investigated by anyone other than myself
I always got the feeling you were more sad at yourself for not getting the enjoyment that others had, rather than at the game, or at DraQ. This post (specifically the bit about "there is nothing so remarkable and delightful as finding something out") makes me almost certain this is the case. Unfortunately, it just isn't a game you'll enjoy, or understand why it's enjoyed, no matter how much discussion there is. Just like I'll never learn to enjoy Battle Isle series no matter how much I'd like to.
* Do we even still count as newfags?
This angle of yours and Excommunicator is highly inconsiderate and reckless to the point of arrogance; through the written word we can only present so much, and we may make claims to our intentions, motivations and feelings but of course we can only claim they are so; however, to argue these claims is in essence to make 'nuh-uh' arguments since in writing there is no such thing as body language, tone, intonation, eye contact, and so on, to express the complex issue of human intentions, motivations, feelings, personality and general Habitus, and yet here I am being indicted as if a reliable impression can exist.
There is no appropriate way for me to respond, even if I were to present the implications of the accusations they would be held up as projection. I stated my viewpoint and perception on the matter and you make of it an indictment of my personal character and intention, and yet the post which you use as your staging-ground refutes all which you accuse me of.
The only thing I will iterate from my previous post is this:
"there is no way of exchanging information that does not demand an act of judgement."
This is very important to keep in mind at this moment and in the future, for it is a point on which all us fail with alarming insistence.