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The analogy doesn’t work because your philosophy clashes with someone else’s. My fun is from eating progressively spicier hot sauces to build a tolerance to capsaicin, until I can talk with Sean Evans about our opinions on General Satan’s Colon Evaporator. If you extracted the capsaicin from General Satan’s Colon Evaporator, it is no longer General Satan’s Colon Evaporator, and you can’t actually contribute to the conversation.

“Everybody” that plays in the NBA is literally on the same playing field. “Everybody” at a basketball convention likes basketball. But those are two very different groups of people.

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starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
That’s the wonderful thing about options, is that their optional. Me having the option to make the game more fun for me does not remove the option to make the game more fun for you.

If your stated goal with a hot sauce eating party is to “bring everyone to the same level of discussion and the same level of enjoyment,” are you going to feed everyone General Satan’s Colon Evaporator, or do you think that would bring some people to a “different” level of discussion and enjoyment?

If you extracted the capsaicin from General Satan’s Colon Evaporator, it is no longer General Satan’s Colon Evaporator, and you can’t actually contribute to the conversation.

What an incredible insult to Miyazaki’s writing. If you took some of the health out of Ebrietas, you’d still be playing Bloodborne. If you and I both beat her at the same level of relative difficulty, what’s stopping us from having a conversation? Why am I only able to join the conversation when I have a harder time with her than you do?

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- DonkeyStar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Who said anything about a party or feeding anyone sauce? Playing the game is the option. I’m setting a goal for myself to get to that level. I’m getting the sauce for myself. I don’t need you to be part of the conversation.
  
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  - starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    I don’t need you to be part of the conversation.
    
    Too bad, I guess? I’m here anyway. If you don’t like reading my comments you can always block me
    
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    DonkeyStar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The hypothetical conversation with Sean Evans.
    
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