And I had thought that we were done arguing. I guess not.
That argument over your RtD concept lasted a lot longer than it needed to, simply because you did a lot of arguing and very little explaining.
That's because I'm pretty sure nobody asked questions. I see only a few question marks by you and Drag. I'm pretty sure I answered all of them.
On the other hand, I never got many responses for mine.
People gave you constructive criticism, and you responded with nothing constructive of your own, just defensive hostility. And then it became an argument.
I don't get what you mean by nothing constructive. I gave my reasoning and my opinion and why I'm doing X and not Y. What else was I to add?
You tend to be snippish-sounding and don't really go into much detail, which makes it sound like you're irritated at having to explain things you shouldn't have to. As an example:
I never said that. Just that if such a thing needs to be obtained or such a person needs to be assassinated, the leader of the army is likely to hand the assignment to the squad that's clearly got the best track record. Also, calm down a bit. ^^^; I'm not sure if you're mad or not, but you're coming off as overly defensive.
What's to say you've got the best track record?
What about those other couple thousand people who are accomplishing things equal or even better than what you're accomplishing?
The whole "What about this? What about those
thousands of others who are
even better than you?" part sounds like you're exasperated with someone, not just explaining a concept or reasoning. Then you don't really go into much detail about what/how/when you'd be doing/thinking/reasoning instead, which is one of the reasons it just sort of keeps going afterwards.
Did I say they were not going to be the focus of the story? I say in a curious voice because apparently everyone needs that.
That was another good example of insufficient explanation. You keep saying they won't be "the heroes" or "solving everything" and so on, without going into much detail as to exactly what that means. Thus, a lot of people assumed you meant "not the main characters somehow" or "part of a faceless blob doing trivial things," because you never said otherwise.
That might be a good way to denote actions in RTDs, come to think of it... as long as no one uses the color red for their character's speech/thoughts.
* IronyOwl prefers bolding.