WELL ACTUALLY* if system doesn’t matter why are we talking? You’re over there having fun not caring what system you’re having fun with, I’m over here noticing the differences, all that’s going to come of this conversation is me ruining your fun when you notice some of those differences too. Stop talking, system-doesn’t-matter-dude. Stop. Go have fun instead. Talking to me will only make you sad.

It feels like what I have to do when someone tells me all about their homeopathic cold pseudomedicine: I can point out that they just paid seven dollars for a sugar pill and teach them how to read a damn FDA label, or I can shut up and let them get the benefit of their placebo. If you’re just trying to pass on a tip about how you took this once and your cold went away**, cool, I’ll shut up, say thanks, and let you get on with your placebo-boosting belief structure. But if you want to argue about it? I might be about to ruin your ignorance. It could happen.

*I have a long and shameful history of being well-actually dude. Like a cold, it’s basically incurable without the aid of enchanted water.
**Which is FUCKING MAGICAL, you know? Colds never go away. But little do you know, I have a magic couch. I had a cold once and I took a nap on the couch and a few days later my cold was gone. MAGIC. Big pharma doesn’t want you to know about my couch.