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TD-> What you're saying is not what I said. I said you're a fucking moron for claiming that Wizards uses "hundreds of thousands" to represent million based on the Magic statement, for reasons already outlined (it's an ambiguous statement. It's not Wizards saying "millions can be repre...

You know, if you swear constantly, it loses some of its impact. This isn't Gleemax. This isn't the WoTC Boards. This is TGDMB. Fuck off. The man can swear as much as he wants, when he wants. And he doesn't have to give a flying fuck about a four paragraph post from a moron who's trying to give a le...

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TD-> First of all, whether or not some people want 4E to fail or not is irrelevant. There are also people who would do anything to make it seem like a success because they want it to succeed (such as yourself and the 4E Avenger retards). What's important is that a person is able to seperate objectiv...

TD, for the last fucking time: going through a second or twentieth printing doesn't mean you are doing well, it just means that you were bad at selecting print run sizes. That particular piece of market speak is totally laughable. And now, so are you. -Username17 Hell, merely using the term "p...

Oh, and: Some are speculating that underperformance of 4E vs. expectations has Wizards of the Coast looking for reasons, and that led to attacking pirates and banning PDFs. Since you don’t report specific line sales, we don’t know whether either perception (performance of 4E or connection to PDF po...

YOU are retreating from your claims. You have so far argued that... 1) 100s of thousands was used because it looks bigger than millions. 2) That it doesn't look bigger than millions but looks bigger than nothing than millions does. 3) That it actually literally means millions because it actually ge...

Looks like they've only sold hundreds of thousands of books for this edition, which considering how well 3rd sold for its supplements, shows poorly in terms of pure revenue and interest (and therefore staying power of the edition). My one query would be the influence of the D&D Insider on peopl...

One could argue that someone like yourself might commit suicide if shown to be wrong, but let's face it: the world would only be a better place for it. I've admitted plenty of times when I'm wrong. Ask Caelic. He's not an ass of a debater like you even if we fundamentally disagreed on a lot of issu...

Guys, try not to analyze TD's arguments too much. You don't need to analyze in detail how wrong the basic argument is. It's better for your overall mental health. His tactics boil down to repeating already discredited statements (and pretending they aren't), shifting context to unrelated areas (i.e....

And you know, if they had done that those numbers can be added together under what you yourself call the "alternate" (and lets face it actual in any sane universe) interpretation of the "How many of these we have sold" statement. Except, of course, that when I posed the same que...

Okay, I am not one of those people who think that every idea that 4th Edition had was bad. Some of these ideas are preference/perspective issues, like the single-classing or WoWing of powers. Most of the time I hate on 4th Edition is because they had a good idea or at least a value-neutral idea and...

Let's take the phrase "Harry Potter books sell millions of copies." Does that mean that all Harry Potter books put together have sold millions of copies, or that any given Harry Potter book will sell millions of copies? The latter is a perfectly reasonable reading of the sentence. Complet...

TD-> Standard modus operandi again: Call the opposition and idiot for not understanding you, when you were the fucking idiot who made the asinine argument in the first place. We all saw through the outright IDIOCY of your claim that they chose "hundred of thousands" over "over a milli...

People get far more upset over a politician paying $10,000 for something extravagant than him wasting $10 million for some pork barrel project, because $10,000 is something they can relate to whereas $10 million isn't. You insist that "context matters", and yet here you are again trying t...

TD-> Nope. I'm saying you came here with the explicit desire to cause trouble. Hence I'm gonna point out what a big ass you are because I happen to like TGDMB without your presence polluting it. Though, judging from the thread with the 4E sales numbers, you've done a fine job making an ass of yourse...

Or... you know, they said that because it did sound bigger. I'm not sure that "hundreds of thousands" doesn't sound like more than "over a million". While if you put them side by side, people will say "over a million" is larger, people don't actually do very well with ...

That's true of 3.x as well. And 2nd edition. And first edition. And every other edition ever. I already said that. There's nothing about having the pottery skill that makes you a better roleplayer. Anyone who says otherwise is an idiot. I didn't say that. I just said it didn't hurt. Zinegata, I kno...

And some people think that fighters are balanced in 3E. Some people are wrong. So argue with those people, because I agree this is wrong. In MMORPGs, crafting does something for you. You can make shit like leather armor or whatever that actually helps you in combat, or you can sell it to other peop...

The problem here is your definition of "beyond the rules set." In 3E, there are no rules for wearing purple clothes. Literally, we don't care if your tunic is grey, green or purple. It doesn't matter, because there is no mechanical effect to doing it. So you could just as easily say you c...

Now if you want to say your character was a blacksmith's apprentice and knows how to make his own sword, just say so. Don't worry about feeling forced to reflect that story decision mechanically. Just write it on your character sheet. Liberating, isn't it? And now, they come out and just admitted o...

So 4E is broken. Because as Chris Pramas noted in a recent article, if you wanna roleplay in 4e "just write whatever you want" in your sheet. It's "liberating", but it's also outside the rules. Conclusion? Wanna roleplay in 4E? Go outside the rules and likely break the game. I d...

So 4E is broken. Because as Chris Pramas noted in a recent article, if you wanna roleplay in 4e "just write whatever you want" in your sheet. I'm going to have to ask you to back that ass up with a link. Sorry, meant Chris YOUNGS: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dred/2009August D...

This is moronic. All games are built around the idea that you play within the rules. If you violate the rules, there's a good chance you'll break any game. So 4E is broken. Because as Chris Pramas noted in a recent article, if you wanna roleplay in 4e "just write whatever you want" in you...

I never quoted that guy's figures, I used him as a link to the court case where WotC said under oath, that their total sales of Core Books were in the hundreds of thousands. As in, more than 100,000, less than 1 million. That is the sales range they gave to the united states legal system. Depending...