Otherwise, going with "things I think a lot of people should have different perspectives on" is a very broad, very bad way to start classifying what is important. Besides, something being important to someone doesn't make it universally accepted as being important; my important is so much fluff to the majority of people I know.
Where the battle thread is concerned, you'll note I responded where I could in the beginning and left the conversation when I realized I was in over my head. For the latest one, those different scenarios didn't lead me to believe anything changed enough to alter the outcome; Bean, according to the Shadow series -which I grudgingly hold as cannon- is the better strategist and is supposedly smarter than Ender. I think Jason said that or something so similar I saw no point in trying to argue. The people you're pitting against each other, as near as I've been able to tell, have been lopsided in abilities. Just because two characters are popular to you big bunch of geeks or are often pitted against each other doesn't make it a smart or good match. I'm not claiming this is genius, it's probably just as lopsided when you start to look closer but because the characters interest me and the worlds interest me, I'd have a jolly ol' time looking at, say, some from Harry Potter vs someone from SW. Magic vs the Force. Does that mean a lot of different people, who might conceivably have opinions, are going to weigh in if I ask them how they think the mechanics of it all would work out? Probably not.
Now, I say this with the knowledge that I'm a hypocrite (no, doesn't make it any better) and with the knowledge that you are young and are in fact doing exactly what I'm about to say but, grow up.
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I have so much respect for people like Ali, who can suck it up and at least try. Effort goes so very, very far with me.
P.S. Syphon, if you haven't broken 1000 by now, I hate you for the next 10 minutes.
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