Dude, Star Wars is obscenely powerful. Never mind that the Empire built giant energy cannons powerful enough to detonate a planet like a hand grenade multiple times, Star Destroyers canonically have main guns in the gigaton range. One Star Destroyer is enough to completely depopulate a planet.
I know. There is a forum (at least one) which was originally created for the whole "Star wars vs Star trek" debates and they did some math, at least as far as they could. Star wars also has much faster FTL engines.
bbs.stardestroyer.net. I was a part of it since 2004 or 2005, but I rarely go on it now; a lot of the longtime members are complete assholes. The site freely allows you to mock people during debates as long as you have a point behind your post (so no ad hominems where you do nothing but insult the other guy without simultaneously pointing out how he's wrong; they really hate logical fallacies), but it's influenced the veterans enough that they can barely even communicate at this point without swearing and insulting whoever they're disagreeing with, no matter how mild the error.
Ok. I've only occasionally skimmed the site so I hadn't noticed that (or had forgotten.)
I kinda approve that kind of rules since I don't mind arguments as long as people don't go completely overboard and with the no-adhominems rules it might have been hoped that those rules keep it to being different ideas arguing rather than just people arguing.
Though apparently it didn't work.
Like, in theory I approve of it. Actually writing down "We don't care what kind of language you use in a debate" stops one of the major logical fallacies: style over substance. The substance of the argument is what people have to debate, rather than tone policing or claiming that you refuse to debate someone because they get offended by your blatant stupidity and call you a fuckhead.
The problem is that many of the more curmudgeonly ones have gotten to the point where they just can't
not fly into a frothing rage or call you a shitmonkey for minor mistakes in etiquette. The usual response to asking them to chill is to "Get a thicker skin" and continue coming up with creative names for you.
