I quit playing for reasons unrelated to the game, but stayed away because of the shady practices of the company regarding sexual harassment and cowing to authoritarians.
Since I’ve been posting here in the last week, all I’ve done is try to convince people to stop arguing against your conspiracy theories. We all believe in some conspiratorial thinking, I really don’t care if a person refuses to understand the intricacies of a skill ranking system that’s not a bracket or W/L ratio.
In the last 4 years, I’ve seen this thinking in far, far more important realms than a near-dead video game. I used to have an interest in keeping people from getting tilted and giving up, so that MY games would go better, but I no longer have that interest. If taleswapper does, I’ll let him do it, but I advise against it. OW and GMAT aren’t on the same level of importance and he’s not dealing with the same caliber of people.
I am interested in Cuthbert. He’s an interesting character that has some idea that is far more complex than what many of his detractors OR ACOLYTES think. You may think you agree with him, but I doubt you do.
I really would like to know what he actually thinks, what the actual problem is. Even though the term “handicapping” leads to confusion because it sounds like “disability”, he’s not really using the word wrong nor is his apparent conception of how the system works wrong. He knows how it works, it seems, for the most part, but still thinks it’s bad and I’ve never understood why.