I don't know why I bother when you don't but here you go:
"Also, you keep doing the stupid thing. It's not a failure as the kit works fine and the Job is the most popular with players of all the Casters. The word you're looking for there is success. It's okay to say "I don't like something". That's fine. you can say that."
- I clearly imply it's a "success" if your only metric is accessibility, and that popularity is too nebulous a metric for us non-SE employees to accurately comment on. Too bad one of their stated goals was addressing the "system bloat" and starting from fresh, uh oh the old systems are still there, they're just sanded down to absolute simplicity!
"What I'm annoyed with is you lying."
- I'm not lying lol.
I clearly define what I mean by "disjointed", and you just...ignore it? Instead you supplant it with your own interpretation that it is presumably "easy to play"? Or perhaps "has a nice flow" (disagree)? Entirely irrelevant when I've defined my interpretation and you instead vaguely gesticulate at a different one and don't engage with mine at all.
If your idea of engaging with my definition is:
"New SMN - Demis feed into Primals, Primals feed into their sub-phase, Ruin 4 exists as a movement tool during two of the phases if needed, and that's the Job. The only thing "off to the side" (another way of saying "disjointed") is Energy Drain, Energy Siphon (though those prep Ruin 4, so they have a reason to exist, they just make less thematic sense), and Fester. Painflare, technically coming from Bahamut, thematically makes sense for SMN to have. The only part of the kit that doesn't thematically make sense is the Aetherflow part, but it IS connected to the Job as a whole as driving its burst as weaves between Bahamut GCDs."
Cool, oldSMN had all that absolute barebones shit as well, and then it also had defined synergies between systems with numbers and restrictive elements. So it's more cohesive, and less disjointed.
"Old SMN was very much more disjointed, if we're using the definition of "not connected, coherent, or continuous"."
- I clearly stated how the disparate systems were more connected and coherent (I even included the definition of 'coherent' I intended incase the context was too hard to read), oops guess that doesn't count and the fact that newSMN is all instant casts that you slam out with 2 buttons is way more uhhh "continuous" I guess (disagree)?
"(Note: Not having DoTs to interact with isn't part of a definition of connected or coherent.)"
- Says you? Even when they're a clearly demonstrated mechanical connection between two different job mechanics?
And that's just a couple posts back. I don't really have the free time to go further.
I get what you're trying to do, you're trying to exhaust under the false pretense of "good faith discussion" where you're just intentionally obtuse, or skirting the actual argument. Timeless-classic online argumentative strategy.
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