Traduttore, Traditore
This applies not only to linguistics but several fields of Logic and anything that derives from it.
One of the first things drilled in my Logics 101 class during College by a very adamant man that loved to single out bilingual speakers and then forcing us to translate key phrases.
It is IMPOSSIBLE, and there is even a field of it, to actually translate concepts in language (Untranslatability).
Why am I mentioning this into this thread?
I completely translated then decoded your message, which flies well out of the boundaries of the game yet easily fits within it, but at the same, applies so beautifully to the current issue at hand, and many others as well.
I have zero stakes in the argument, but felt forced to reply to this particular snippet of your post.
What you allude is something that is known by many of my colleagues and myself during therapy as well as colleagues in related fields.
Your feeling, so written, is also accurate on the level you portray the P99 developer.
Essentially, the statement of making the server as "classic" as possible , is a flawed argument, a self deception, not intentional, but when deconstructed it is shown to be in its ugly truth, its naked truth.
The whole thread is amazing to me as seeing the issue debated , if you remove all the trappings related to P99, Enchanters, Enchanter Spells, Camps and Game Mechanics, can be 100% reinterpreted , applied, poured into or plain copy/pasted into practically any argument relating to a point where the origin is unclear and all that we are left with is "original texts", or "words of the originator" "what the ancients said" "the motto of our company" etc, etc, .
It is fascinating on so many levels, I must confess until you wrote this particular snippet I had to do some analysis of my own curiosity to find out what was so appealing about it.
I had to share it, even some of the pre-fabricated replies by some posters are so astonishingly similar to other cases I have studied before that it made my hair stand on the back of my neck.
Just marvellous, simply marvellous.
I really really have a hard time following some standard threads here, but this one fell into such classical tropes I can only stare with awe at how similar, no matter the differences, all of us are, regardless of all our normal social trappings and "impersonas" we take in here.
Fantastic thread
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Much love as usual from the lonely Isthmus my dear friends!
I will now try to add a bit of something to the discussion, for the fun of it.