The funny thing is that Delance's point in this thread is not whether Tolwyn is Space Hitler or not, or whether he wanted to kill everyone or not. His point was that several years ago you people said that it was stupid to call Tolwyn Space Hitler because he wasn't that.
"You people"? We pressed him on this and it turned out he was talking about an IRC conversation he had with someone who isn't even involved in this discussion. Good going, Brazilians.
And I sincerely find it very funny how you seem to almost hate most WC games. Everytime someone says "Oh, WC1 was great fun, with a grat story!" you come up and say "It was just some talking heads. no reason to be excited", and so on. You have some reason to dislike almost all games... Why do you invest so much time and effort in this universe you seem to hold almost in contempt??
You sincerely find that very funny? I guess we're both amused, as I find self righteous idiocy funny. I love Wing Commander, but I certainly do not think Wing Commander is perfect -- and I certainly certainly certainly do not think it's *intelligent*. Attaching these kinds of beliefs to the games is insulting rather than complementary to the source... Wing Commander is a fun, pulp science fiction story -- it's not a grand allusion.
No it doesn't. Military orders are specific. On WC1, Blair has specific orders to patrol a system, and then specific orders to escort a transport. Orders to attack a specific system doesn't mean no other systems will ever be attacked, certainly not since there are other statements claiming they would.
... but that's *not* what I'm trying to prove and you know it. You're smarter than that and it isn't cute. It's what *you're* trying to prove - that the fact that he has orders to attack five planets means he going to attack *every* planet. Blair being ordered to patrol a star system or escort a transport doesn't mean he's going to patrol every star system and escort every transport.
Not only that, but we are discussing the WCIV game, where Tolwyn made it clear he intends to use the weapons on everyone.
Well, that's my damned point - *does he*?
"We have tested it, and we shall use it!" is the line you like to quote -- but how does that mean he's going to use the weapon everywhere? I bet Truman said something similar about the atomic bomb - but it didn't mean that he was going to nuke every city in the world. I have this wrench, and I'm going to use it! Am I fixing every tractor in the world?
This is the part of the thread where we try to think instead of attaching pseudointellectual crap where it doesn't belong.
Its funny how you complain about supposedly far-fetched interpretations, but have no problems using them to interpret the game in a manner completely opposite to what’s explicit stated on it.
Oh, I'm so very sorry that I
cited a source. How unoriginal of me, I should have just gone on making up wild assumptions based on vauge quotes instead of bringing *facts* into the discussion.