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Thread: Do any FSXP grinders feel the same way I do about the CU?
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LandonRyuu
Sat Apr 09, 2005 2:27 pm
#53
I was expecting a reply similar to the one you just structured, full of even more fallacy and assumption. You laid on the straw man rhetoric a little thick though IMO. The play for high ground with the "I don't know about you MR. ANTI AMERICAN, but I'm joining the ARMY! Go USA!" schtick was obviously the weakest point. Using your implied logic, anyone who is not Republican, and anti-war is anti-American. Excuse me sir, are you from a red state? I think the notion of killing others (who have not explicitly attacked you) to express your patriotism is a little jihadist in nature, don't you? But I digress, I've never attended an anti-war rally, and consider myself very loyal to my nation. (Never burned any flags either! OMFG! I'm not a stereotype, how are you going to displace my arguments if I don't fit into the box you're used to placing people you don't like in!)
Furthermore the implications of your argument suggest that any stateman or woman who questions the current administration's or any government agency's policy is deemed anti-American. I bet you've already bundled the democrats into that basket, eh? Well, while we're here...
Analyzing your government is the most patriotic thing you can do for your nation. The checks and balances are based on this school of thought. So if you want to be a grunt that doesn't question anything, go ahead. (Pretty risky assumption too since you don't know if I'm already in the Armed Forces or not, IMO.)
In your first post you even ignored my original statements as to why I have not attained my Jedi character, along with ignoring my original argument which was very plainly stated. Straw man!
Wait, instead of just writing a sentence I'll use the block letters you're used to seeing on the short bus you take to your "philosophy class":
STOP CHANGING THE FS SYSTEM
Now, even though they are not revamping the Jedi system as a whole changing the rate at which players gain xp would affect the core of the FS system which is? Yes, it's GRINDING.
I don't need to quote a philosopher for you to understand that logic do I? Ok, great.
While the various philosophy names you dropped and how they would react to the argument you addressed (that was actually not my argument, but your distorted interpretation of it for the sake of improving your own) might impress the uninitiated I considered it a very ham handed move on your part. You've read some textbooks for credits, great. If you're a major I'd expect that soon it will be time to move on to the big boy pants and try classes where you study and debate over the original works. I don't need to address which school or type of institution I assume you are attending to know your education is rudimentary at best.
So you're probably wondering, why did I even reply to your post at all in the first place? Am I a nihilist? Nah, Jean Paul Satre just told me I could. :-P.
Furthermore the implications of your argument suggest that any stateman or woman who questions the current administration's or any government agency's policy is deemed anti-American. I bet you've already bundled the democrats into that basket, eh? Well, while we're here...
Analyzing your government is the most patriotic thing you can do for your nation. The checks and balances are based on this school of thought. So if you want to be a grunt that doesn't question anything, go ahead. (Pretty risky assumption too since you don't know if I'm already in the Armed Forces or not, IMO.)
In your first post you even ignored my original statements as to why I have not attained my Jedi character, along with ignoring my original argument which was very plainly stated. Straw man!
Wait, instead of just writing a sentence I'll use the block letters you're used to seeing on the short bus you take to your "philosophy class":
STOP CHANGING THE FS SYSTEM
Now, even though they are not revamping the Jedi system as a whole changing the rate at which players gain xp would affect the core of the FS system which is? Yes, it's GRINDING.
I don't need to quote a philosopher for you to understand that logic do I? Ok, great.
While the various philosophy names you dropped and how they would react to the argument you addressed (that was actually not my argument, but your distorted interpretation of it for the sake of improving your own) might impress the uninitiated I considered it a very ham handed move on your part. You've read some textbooks for credits, great. If you're a major I'd expect that soon it will be time to move on to the big boy pants and try classes where you study and debate over the original works. I don't need to address which school or type of institution I assume you are attending to know your education is rudimentary at best.
So you're probably wondering, why did I even reply to your post at all in the first place? Am I a nihilist? Nah, Jean Paul Satre just told me I could. :-P.
Message Edited by LandonRyuu on 04-09-2005 02:35 PM
acvoelcker
Sat Apr 09, 2005 3:31 pm
#54
I think people are taking this way too seriously. I am not a Jedi, nor do I think I will be one any time soon. I want to become one, but for crying out loud, just enjoy the game, and try to make the best of the changes to it whether you like them or not. I tried the nade grind, and managed to finish 1 whole line and 1 more box with it before that became boring. I was a master commando too. I just hate doing the same thing over and over. THIS IS JUST A GAME, not real life. I for one think that it will be much sweeter getting Jedi and actually knowing you busted your butt getting there, not simple buying tons of grenades and tossing them at everything you see. I say play the game and have fun with it. What's so fun about getting the best thing in the game early on, and then what? you have nothing left to really do....
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