[Dylan16807]

His comment, despite being placed as a reply to mine, did not address what I was arguing.

I'm particular the "clearly no" does not work. The "clear" thing was not what I was contesting.

And I want to state here that I don't want to relitigate anything in the original discussion. I'm only replying because you seem to misunderstand what this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41607486 meant in the first place and I'm willing to explain in other wording what it meant.

[Phiwise_]

This is a stunning lack of self-awareness.

[Dylan16807]

Do you want to explain that in any way, or do you just want to be rude while you keep saying incorrect things about my comments? In particular, I never accused anyone of being off-topic.

Early in this conversation I made a comment that shifted the topic slightly, but was also a reply to the argument in the parent comment. tptacek's reply to me was not a reply to the argument in my comment. It was arguing past me. Or I could say it was strawmanning me, but that makes it sound too intentional.

I think that situation is pretty simple. It also seems pretty simple that you misunderstood my comment #41607486.

What's your actual criticism, other than the incorrect idea that I accused tptacek of being off-topic, and other than vague petty snipes?

[Phiwise_]

This game of repeating my argument back to me but worse has gotten old.

[Dylan16807]

> repeating my argument back to me

So I'm not missing anything. You had exactly one criticism, and I explained over and over that it's not what I meant. You can't change what I meant no matter what you say; that criticism is flat-out invalid. And you have no replacement criticisms, despite implying you had some.

Cool, that means I'm clear of all accusations!

[Phiwise_]

"I'm clear of all accusations" lmao dude we're not in court