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You may chose to read some of the former pages, in any case.
I'm still baffled by the absolute mediocrity of Connor's logic and claims.
Just a quick examples here, since I cannot resist:
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Connor MacLeod, Sep 24, 2011 wrote:Maybe Mith in his infinite wisdom, since he so clearly has everything figured out, can provide an explanation of how the supposed mass lightening works, and then provide further explanation how this is supposed to apply to nova cannons, much less any other weapon.
Oh yeah, with proof. Because we wouldn't want rampant speculation to sully the thread now would we? :p
Connor considers that if the opposition cannot explain the physics behind a given piece of technology, then said piece of technology is to be ignored.
How many times have we seen bad debaters use such silly logic, really?
For some reason, he also finds anti-gravity less complicated than mass lightening (as he puts it here, while trying to rewrite what the text from Eye of Terror clearly says).
I'm still to finish reading that thread, although by a quick look at it, it seems they've been spending pages trying to ignore this clear evidence of application of MLT to most space ships.
I'll return to this later on; there are too many humourous moments awaiting, mostly because of the over-boiling hypocrisy in it; you won't be able to help but just laugh your arses off. ;)
Now, after rereading the quote from Nemesis and then the one from Prospero Burns, it dawned on me how Connor's past work (which he says to have started between 06 and 07) might clearly influence authors who, not being cautious and going for some quick cool background information, may easily be drawn towards what would really be seen as an easily reached beacon of misinformation: Connor's work at SDN on Warhammer 40000 and the all too often linked Grand Sticky 40K thread. :)
It's so easy for a writer, the kind who has no time to waste on learning a few things about physics or even getting proper information of all elements of a background relevant to his future book (BL writers can even ignore what annoys them), failing to get a basic understanding about the magnitudes of the effects they have in mind or decide to describe, yet to let Google drive you to Connor's works where his senseless and dogmatic paradigm -one where a warship's mundane firepower brings more destruction to a world than the rare, much dreaded and memorable use of Exterminatus weapon arrays- is literally all over the place.
The same kind of issue that would happen with Saxton and Wong's work. Fortunately enough, it seems that very few authors cared about the silly numbers they argued for, and there had been some resistance from inside LucasPublishing, but after taking notice of the weird 40K canon, there's no reason for such a thing not to happen.
In the game of versus debates, this kinda represents a problem, when one side may get its views validated in official literature in the age of Internet, where a few keystrokes won't be enough to tell you that the information you're reading is patently inaccurate.
[ultra late edit to add the quotation of Connor's words]