Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
When I talk about people attacking me, this is the kind of thing I'm talking about. "Let's try to catch Ren breaking his hyperbole rule!" "Will that prove him wrong?" "Well, no, but we can call him names like hypocrite and pretend like everything he says can be ignored now!" "But...weren't we doing that anyway?" "Yes, but it will surely really annoy him!"
It's not about some sort of "gotcha!" moment. Imagine having an office job where your boss dictates that no one is allowed to have snacks at their desk and has frequently and publicly yelled at staff who bring snacks to their desk. Yet when you go into their office, you see they're always snacking at their desk. That would piss you off, right?

Well, you have regularly gone off on people for using hyperbole, tearing into them and accusing them of bad faith because of their use of hyperbole. Yet you have, by definition, been using hyperbole in recent discussion. "Pretty much no one did that" when you don't actually have data you're referencing is a very light form of hyperbole. Describing anything that isn't literally an airplane as "Stratospheric" is an extremely heavy form of hyperbole. If you really want to use some type of metaphor to describe your perspective... we're talking about skill "ceilings" as in how high the ceiling is of a building. Describing the collective stance you oppose that includes things like suggesting White Mage get 2-3 new attack spells as 30,000 feet in the air is an extreme hyperbole respective to that concept of a ceiling, because no ceiling is 30,000 feet tall, not even the damn Burj Khalifa. But maybe you would communicate your stance more fairly if you were to say something like this instead:

"Right now, every healer is a ground floor home, and I think we need some of the healers to have more floors, but all of you want every healer to be at least 2 stories tall."

Listen, I'm not saying you can't use hyperbole. Hyperbole isn't a bad thing. But people want you to be consistent. If you are going to chastise others for using hyperbole, then be consistent and don't' use it yourself. Or if you want to use it, then go ahead, but don't get on other peoples' cases when they use it too. It's all about being fair here.