Quote Originally Posted by Alhanelem View Post
It was a joke at the time, not an insult. Also, it's the only such thing Ive made in this entire thread. I have not been insulting you or anyone else who disagrees with me, whereas I've been called multiple names including "moron" for my opinion. Have I called you any names? No. Have I called anyone else any names? No. Others have been FAR, FAR more disrespectful and demeaning to me.
You aimed your "joke at the time" (so what is it now) squarely at me and I didn't call you anything. You just categorized everything I said as nonsense, and it isn't no matter how you feel about it.

There's no justice around here, I'm the one being attacked for my opinion. I've made it very clear that I'm not trying to attack anyone or anything, that inspite of my view I still find significant flaws in the merit system, and that while I hold this viewpoint, I do understand and respect the view held by others. So why you all seem so hellbent on attacking me, calling names, and making me look bad, I really don't know. As I said before, if I've made up my mind and I've acknolwedged the other viewpoint and I'm in a minority, why try so hard to break me down? If SE decided they wanted to make changes to merits based on this thread, it's pretty obvious what they'd do so it's not like you have anything to worry about.
Again I haven't called you anything, but please don't let that fact kill the mood at your pity party.

Actually, I'm strengthening my argument. If their impact is minor, they are totally fine to remain as they are. Customization doesn't have to be extraordinarily useful. The benefits are minor but so are the pitfalls.
If customization doesn't have to be useful then let's make all customization come from purely cosmetic sources and leave weapon skills, stats, and abilities out of it. Looks like we've finally found common ground. I knew it'd happen eventually.