This is the thing you seem to have an issue with, because you keep stating your own opinions as if they were the cold hard facts of the book.
I never said anything I've been going on to be canon other than to say that the mechanics and the themes of the setting are not in alignment. The first thing I said was that perfect defenses are not a win for good storytelling - none of the comics in the books or without show Solars nuking 10-15 Dragonbloods with perfects and then dying to empty mote pools. The Usurpation Dinner says nothing to Perfect Defenses and Surprise Negators, nothing of poison immunity or shaping immunity, nothing of punching Sidereals into Malfeas so they have to wait 10 days before they can come back and aid their conspirators. That was the first thing I spoke to - that the mechanics and the themes of the game are broken and do not communicate.
My flaw is that I spoke from confidence and passion - which was misconstrued as preaching canon and being neckbread about others inability to read what is in the book. I've explained that some authors have written one thing and others have written others - I simply followed one rabbit hole and others another, then over ten years debating it in forums or with friends, refined my own understanding of the setting. I've said I "disagree" and "here is what I think/feel" - I think that was read as "No, the book says this - you all are blind". I think there are some great writers and some deep minds on here, I don't accuse anyone of being blind, I only think we allow the setting to be a little less complicated than maybe it should be sometimes. Allow the setting to exist in a lesser form because it was written - I mean the Perfect wants to build 1000 factory cathedrals in canon, that's pretty shity writing. People will not even talk about Halta they hate it so bad. Many of the weak parts of the writing, we recognize them, but we make excuses for them. Over time those excuses become canon through the echo chamber - I think that's part of what I'm getting at. TAW, ripping out bad canon by the throat and putting something better it - that's what the community should do all the time. Let something better be the new canon. If you think mental-disorders in world-bodies is a better way to run with Yozi, that's cool. I'd just like to see another option be acceptable. If someone wants to run Core Lunars over TAW, that's cool, you can tell different stories - the option exists and most accept both. Freedom and choices, that's good, I just don't want to see the community be too hidebound or close their eyes to other reinterpretations of the setting.
I am sorry if it was taken that I was speaking to canon. Only my own personal canon - only another way to play, only my preference. I'd still want others to be able to play mental-disorder Yozi. I enjoy them from time to time, I just hate memes and inso giggle giggle death death as a Yozi.
you could be an incredibly nice and open guy
My students tell me that I'm their favorite teacher and that I'm nice all the time. My coworkers often remark on how nice I am. I have not made more than one personal attack in this thread, and that one was made to point out that a personal attack was made and getting gaslighted about receiving personal attacks.
I am speaking very openly, I have not veiled my opinions or hidden my motives. I understand the lack of tone, but their is some human-bias to see a differing opinion as hostile.
I am very stiff, formal and judgmental. In real life people seem to not mind that - or my humor smooths the edges. I am sorry that I have not done that here - I've never been one to use humor online. Humor is a peculiar thing with me, generally I hate canned humor and memes - cliches are my bane.
So stop trying to play the victim by twisting everyone else's words to fit your narrative.
Play the victim, I'm playing at nothing - I however, have about twelve people twisting my words. I didn't twist anything, I simply cut a snippet of your text out to point to the personal attack, no one needed to read the meat of your argument again or be confused to what I was speaking to. Less is more. To accuse me of twisting words is laughable, considering the situation, but then I doubt anyone within the community would see it that way. I'm arguing with their buddy, so I'm intrinsically the bad guy. One need only look at the posts getting 37 likes talking about nothing or laughing about some joke, while an outsider drops a charm set or a game invite and gets one or zero, it's obvious that a close clique exists within the Exalted thread. I just don't want to see that prevent growth and vibrancy within the fandom - or force newcomers to melt with the groupthink for acceptance, stunting the flow of new ideas and development.
Example:
Words in my mouth...
Alright, obvious statement here: they claim that on top of not fitting with ANY of the rest of canon, not fitting with the thematics of the Titanmachy, that it is not interesting, that it cripples interesting stories involving the sub-souls as it stands, that it doesn't add anything to the game, and that it in fact subtracts interesting things in favor of...nothing in particular that is actually usable for an ST/writer.
I've told plenty of stories, for highly discerning players, for several years now - I have only heard praise for my representations of the Demon Realm. Kobold_Bard, I don't recall his name on here other than that the avatar is Princess Celestia, he has espoused recently on r/Exalted that my ST skill is high caliber. dal_segno, a mod of r/Exalted, would also corroborate that I am able to tell very interesting and entertaining stories with just such a formula as has been professed as impossibe in the above quote.
Have you seen the true face of god? No, angels are sent, or demons in this case - acting on his order/whim or not. I like the idea that we are too small, as young exalts, for such Powers to feel our presence. I like the idea than an Exalt has room for growth and will be different at 1-100-1000 years of age. I know many look back to vampire and hate on the idea that ancients were basically untouchable gods that played their power games with the pawns of their childer, I liked that. Different strokes.
