2009-03-26, 02:03 AM
Harrisonized Wrote:Your first example with the "Better safe than sorry" can apply, but not all people care about being safe. If you want to apply this to your analogy, then you could just tell your mother that it fell in the puddle by accident.
Really though, the analogy with your mother's sweater doesn't apply, because that's just disregarding politeness, and you are affecting another person. For the analogy to work, the ownership of the sweater must shift to yourself. The branch noses, after all, are untradeable. Let's say then, if you throw your own sweater into the puddle, then would you say "better safe than sorry"?
I think what Retalion is trying to get at is you being honest. You're taking a very American version of "ignorance", meaning you'll still play by the rules, but you'll be "baiting" the regulators quite a lot to the point that they might just say "screw you, banplz". Of course that obviously doesn't happen... yet.
Harrisonized Wrote:1) The bigfoot glitch wasn't a glitch until they declared it a glitch. Only people gaining more than a certain ratio of exp gain after the announcement were banned for misconduct, and even so, misconduct bans don't take you off rankings.
Just wait until something much more serious comes along.
Let's say there's some hydrochloric acid in a Sprite can. I'll tell you it's really Sprite, then you'll drink it. Then you'll say "this isn't Sprite!" Then I'll say "It is Sprite, because I declared it to be Sprite. It's even labeled on the can!"
Let's take a more precise scenario. Glitches are specific scenarios where people tend to and should avoid them. If you don't agree with that for some reason, I'll gladly make another comparison to counter your new claims. Kkz, now the scenario. You are quietly enjoying yourself on the beach, intending to soak up as much vacation relaxation as you can. You take some bottled water from your SUV to drink. You suspect that it looks a little funny, but you can't exactly tell what. Whatever, it's vacation, don't worry about it, and you really want a nice, cool drink anyways. After taking a few gulps, you sit back down on the lounge chair on the beach. You turn on the radio and hear a report by the FDA that details food poisoning outbreak of Cryptosporidium in AquaPod-brand bottled drinking water. Hearing that the disease is related to bottled water, you take a look at your bottle, and find it is AquaPod brand! The advisory further states not to drink bottles that have a certain product number (yes, food products do have these) or any bottles that have a slight brown tinge to them, in case there are more shipments of water that have been contaminated. Oh, that's what that strange quality was. The bottle of water you have has a slightly brown tinge! You couldn't tell before because the sand was somewhat brown and tan.
The radio further describes the symptoms of Cryptosporidium. You do NOT look forward to having a vacation with nasty diarrhea. (if AquaPod is an actual brand, then I'd like to say this was made up on the spot.)
Relating the "it's not a glitch until Nexon says it is" belief, you'd better ask the people who got banned for buying dupe White Scrolls. I mean, really, someone has over a hundred of them in a shop, and you suspect they were gotten by illegal means, but there's nothing else saying that buying them is wrong. Bad mistake.

