But nonetheless they are parrying. It's one big clunky abstraction where Turbine are having to fiddle things. Trying to RP along literally with that would mean taking that sort of crude hack at face value and having to explain it in RP terms. Some games have mechanics that you can take at face value in RP; this one doesn't.
Meaning that you would not be RPing so much as having to excuse the game mechanics.Quote:
And so?
Obvious evasion is obvious :pQuote:
"Obvious 'X' is obvious" is even worse. You're saying it's obvious simply because you think it's obvious. "Obvious" is often what people say in an argument when they have nothing substantive to say. A weak, transparent rhetorical device.
If you kept saying 'I doubt I could explain it to you' or some such then it would become very evident that you were having to evade answering.
I didn't see you 'going with the flow' at all for lurkers on that other thread, you got really wound up when I said the idea behind the things wasn't actually all that bad and they just look goofy. And even when the general 'flow' is raw sewage lore-wise, the RK still stands out as that one huge glistening &&&& you can't help but notice as it goes floating by. That class was designed to draw attention to itself.Quote:
No explanation needed. And I see you're still evading the Lore-master and Minstrel issues. That's the problem you have. Simply for matters of personal preference, which you couch in "lore," you accept some lore-breaking nonsense and reject others. I don't find Rune-keepers terribly lore-friendly, but if we're gonna have the game topped off with loads of other lore-breaking nonsense, the better course is to simply go with the flow and accept that LotRO is Turbine's Middle-earth, not Tolkien's. That's the way I deal with lurkers without mentally giggling every time I see one.
No, it's just your unwillingness to accept that I do generally go with the flow but that I point out where I think Turbine have gone too far even allowing for it being their Middle-earth rather than Tolkien's. Apparently I'm not allowed to do that, for some reason. Sorry, but I don't have to follow your approach just because you think I should.Quote:
So again, it's really not your positions on X and Y and how lore-friendly or lore-breaking they are I take issue with, it's your cherry-picking rationalizations.