Quote Originally Posted by CapriciousOne View Post
the only one who knows the truth is SE PERIOD. Everybody likes to think their view of a topic is the truth but that doesnt make it so necesarily. I include myself in that statement as well but we all see things how we want but whatever. Unless you yourself are part of the development team, anything anybody says is nothing but speculation without confirmation from them.
Wrong.

If this were true, the only way we'd know how much the sun weighed or what it was made out of is by going out, putting it on a massive scale, and taking a piece of it home with us in a lab. There is such a thing as applying relative knowledge. SE is not a super special snowflake. After enough time working with similar technology, you're able to identify how other code bases are likely handling things.

See: my explanation of Porter Slips.

Quote Originally Posted by CapriciousOne View Post
so essentially when we attack a mob we aren't really attacking but the mob is failing a defense check.
So, essentially, you're not reading on purpose.