"osu! is a rhythm game, therefore the PP system should value accuracy more."
"osu! is a rhythm game, therefore if you don't have acc, you're a bad player."
"osu! is a rhythm game, therefore Barusamikosu is god, therefore god exists, therefore checkmate atheists!" (Please, this is joke... not trying to spark debate about politics or religion!)
While I may or may not be the worst accuracy player in the history of osu! and I should be ashamed of myself forever, I do in fact think accuracy is a pretty cool skill. I'd love to be a better accuracy player than I am. What I'm saying is that I appreciate accuracy as a skill, and think players like Epiphany are really cool because they are really good at acc. But I still think "osu! is a rhythm game, therefore accuracy should be weighted more in the PP system" is a bad argument. Accuracy is important, but not because osu! is a rhythm game. Accuracy is important rather because it is important for making osu! into a fun game people can enjoy.
The problem is that the argument circular. Ask someone "what is a rhythm game?" and they'll say something like "a game where accuracy is important". So therefore when they say "osu! is a rhythm game, therefore accuracy is important" you can just substitute the word "rhythm game" with its meaning and the sentence is analytically equivalent to "osu! is a game where accuracy is important, therefore accuracy should be important". It's just saying that something should be X because it is X.
If you're still unsure whether it's a good argument or not, consider applying the same argument in other contexts. Here, the form of the argument is "something is X, therefore it should be X". Ok, so if we try to apply this argument to the fact that I'm hungry, we get "I'm hungry, therefore I should be hungry." Either the argument is good, and we can use it both the osu! context and the hunger context, or the argument is bad and we can't use it in any context.
PS. No, I don't have anything better to do than to provide the community with unnecessary walls-of-text on obscure topics that no one cares about. Get a life? Why?
"osu! is a rhythm game, therefore if you don't have acc, you're a bad player."
"osu! is a rhythm game, therefore Barusamikosu is god, therefore god exists, therefore checkmate atheists!" (Please, this is joke... not trying to spark debate about politics or religion!)
While I may or may not be the worst accuracy player in the history of osu! and I should be ashamed of myself forever, I do in fact think accuracy is a pretty cool skill. I'd love to be a better accuracy player than I am. What I'm saying is that I appreciate accuracy as a skill, and think players like Epiphany are really cool because they are really good at acc. But I still think "osu! is a rhythm game, therefore accuracy should be weighted more in the PP system" is a bad argument. Accuracy is important, but not because osu! is a rhythm game. Accuracy is important rather because it is important for making osu! into a fun game people can enjoy.
The problem is that the argument circular. Ask someone "what is a rhythm game?" and they'll say something like "a game where accuracy is important". So therefore when they say "osu! is a rhythm game, therefore accuracy is important" you can just substitute the word "rhythm game" with its meaning and the sentence is analytically equivalent to "osu! is a game where accuracy is important, therefore accuracy should be important". It's just saying that something should be X because it is X.
If you're still unsure whether it's a good argument or not, consider applying the same argument in other contexts. Here, the form of the argument is "something is X, therefore it should be X". Ok, so if we try to apply this argument to the fact that I'm hungry, we get "I'm hungry, therefore I should be hungry." Either the argument is good, and we can use it both the osu! context and the hunger context, or the argument is bad and we can't use it in any context.
PS. No, I don't have anything better to do than to provide the community with unnecessary walls-of-text on obscure topics that no one cares about. Get a life? Why?