Arakasi, please would you adjust your profile to state your place of origin, because if English is not your first language, perhaps we're having a communication problem.

An Opinion cannot be fact.

An opinion can be based upon one or more facts.

A fact is something that is without, question, doubt, nor is it subject to opinion.
A fact is a reality, it exist; contrary to nothing.
Please consult your dictionary if necessary (no insult intended).

The problem *I* had with his comments had little to do with the content, but to do with presentation, specifically, the comments were presented to be *Definitive*.

A definition is similar to a fact, it exists, it is a reality, there is no opinion upon a definition.

Certain comments, opinions, experiences, were presented as definitive and factual. They were not.

I object to anyone "presenting his opinion as fact".

Further and Finally, what has occurred is a complete about face.
What previously was presented with an air of definition and fact, is, now, being contradicted.

Regarding *my* post, NO! my post does not do *that*.

So if I think that RTW is as good a game overall and has the potential to be the better game, than I'm wrong and you're right?
First, the above is a VERY general statement of opinion. You are neither wrong nor right, you have simply stated your opinion with no basis of fact.

Now, if you were to follow up your *opininon* with statements of *fact* upon which you have based your opinion, then there *might* be points for disagreement or argument (in the literal sense, not the emotional).

Regarding your viewpoint upon my comments, as demonstrated by these words, "admit that we were right all along":

First, you shouldn't put those words in quotations, as I did not say that. It is *your* inference from my comments.

Second, I was responding DIRECTLY to the Post, meaning that Reply was based upon the original post of this thread AND upon previous comments by the poster. Unless, you were privy to the previous posts, you may be at a loss to fully comprehend.

If you are privy to that which precluded all the above, then its rather simplistic to discern what I am conveying is an unsophisticated, "admit that we were right all along". From my viewpoint, this is neither here nor there.

What disturbs *me* is when anyone presents THEIR experience and knowledge as being the sum total of; as such that the experience and knowledge of others can be discounted without credence, because one is not open to the possibility, let alone the probablity, that one's experience is, indeed, not the sum total of.

Using the medium in which we are communicating, how can anyone prove to anyone that one's experience and knowledge is greater than another's? It is extremely difficulty and, finally, impossible, if one is closed to the possibility, and particularly, the probability that one's own experience and knowledge is less than definitive or factual.

It is impossible to argument against such a mindset. Any attempt to do so is bound to devolve to a *personal* level.

This is what I believe occurred and there's little I can do to explain it better. I do hope I have proffered something for your comprehension.

That's all I have to say.

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Now, if you want an OPINION from me, its this: I think that many people come to the Org, with the mindset that this is just another forum. The same as any *game* forum on the Internet. Some come here and conduct themselves and continue with a mindset as they might within those forums. To the contrary, the Org is unique and special place. I, personally, consider the Org, its admins/mods, and members to be a 'cut above'. Some notice this straight away, and some never get it. Some like it and stay, some don't and go. Some like it and never adjust to the difference, some adjust and and don't like it.

Whatever, I came here to figure out how Protectorates work....

later