Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25615397-20160301032615/@comment-29564364-20180312102332

DYBAD wrote: @ Alpha: It doesn't really matter as mentioned previously, precisely because there is nothing at stake : no game to speak of, only questions and answers, [...] And since the thread starter doesn't care enough to settle things one way or the other, there is no reason we should overthink it either. Then why are you overthinking it?

[...] hence why loopholing one's way to broken heights isn't quite as satisfying as it would be in a video game or paper RPG for example, so I don't fully understanding the appeal of it in this context. I wouldn't have done it if I didn't find it satisfying in the first place and again, the appeal of it is safety in my case. I have repeated that multiple times, so the only reason you still don't understand it is that you've not been listening to what I'm saying.

I guess powergaming is its own reward as Solipsius suggested, the stronger-than-you emotional gratification derived from it being a sufficient incentive in itself. Again, I didn't choose Preemptive Adaptation for power, I chose it for safety, so that "stronger-than-you emotional gratification" does not apply to me.

Though maybe answers should be divided in two categories : with and without loopholes, as the first explicitly have a huge advantage over the later, so comparing them would be unfair (kind of like how fighting sports are divided into weight classes). This is just a double standard. If both kind of answers conform to the established standard that is the rules, there's no reason to treat them differently. This hypothetical counts only three weight classes: non-almighty powers, almighty powers (almighty powers include omni and absolute powers) and (nigh-)omnipotent powers, and only the former is allowed to be picked. There's no way I'm not sounding rude saying this, but all I'm seeing here is you whining that it's unfair because I adopted a different strategy than yours to achieve a different goal than yours.