(Quoting isn't working for me right now. Not sure why, I apologize if this is hard to follow.)
First off, let's keep the tone civil, please. I'm glad your passionate, but getting abusive makes you look bad.
Second, I was using something that could be validated to make an example. That's all it was, it was an example. However, your response tells me that you treat Fenspace as a jealously-guarded sandbox and you don't want people to play in it if they have different ideas than you have. I know it's late, you could just be tired and responding out of being tired, but, it looks bad. However, the example I used fits with the "does Handwavium work as intended outside of Fenspace" discussion by reversing the situation. If you are unwilling to accept other literary facts as having priority, why should external authors/GMs accept yours as having priority? Handwavium is a literary MacGuffin. It's an interesting MacGuffin, and has birthed an interesting world. But, at the end of the day, it is just another MacGuffin of Plot Device.
Third, my "confusing" statement was about your "Bureau for Interdimensional Chastisement." To be polite, that's the literary equivelant of a shojo mallet. It's a "my Mary Sue can beat up your Mary Sue because I'm in charge" argument. I know countless people who use constructs like them to "keep the peace" failing to understand that their simple existance renders stories and adventures in those worlds moot. It's very Star Trek with their "isn't it nice these deific beings let us play with our little starships?" situation. The way you keep people who abuse the privelage under control is that you don't make their stories canon. Which, having had to deal with something like this in the past, gives me a sick and twisted idea. Mwahahaha-ha-ha!
BA, I think you're too close to the discussion to understand the outside point of view anymore. You're looking at it through the eyes of a Fen, because, well, you are a Fen. Every gamer I've shown Handwavium to has either looked at me with a horrified expression or said "that's really cool, but keep it away from me!" Being Fen, you know it's ultimately safe. Not being Fen, we look at it with the "Great God in a Bottle!" expression realizing how horribly it could be perverted (and, as a pervert, I'm quite familiar with perversion! Nudge-nudge).
First off, let's keep the tone civil, please. I'm glad your passionate, but getting abusive makes you look bad.
Second, I was using something that could be validated to make an example. That's all it was, it was an example. However, your response tells me that you treat Fenspace as a jealously-guarded sandbox and you don't want people to play in it if they have different ideas than you have. I know it's late, you could just be tired and responding out of being tired, but, it looks bad. However, the example I used fits with the "does Handwavium work as intended outside of Fenspace" discussion by reversing the situation. If you are unwilling to accept other literary facts as having priority, why should external authors/GMs accept yours as having priority? Handwavium is a literary MacGuffin. It's an interesting MacGuffin, and has birthed an interesting world. But, at the end of the day, it is just another MacGuffin of Plot Device.
Third, my "confusing" statement was about your "Bureau for Interdimensional Chastisement." To be polite, that's the literary equivelant of a shojo mallet. It's a "my Mary Sue can beat up your Mary Sue because I'm in charge" argument. I know countless people who use constructs like them to "keep the peace" failing to understand that their simple existance renders stories and adventures in those worlds moot. It's very Star Trek with their "isn't it nice these deific beings let us play with our little starships?" situation. The way you keep people who abuse the privelage under control is that you don't make their stories canon. Which, having had to deal with something like this in the past, gives me a sick and twisted idea. Mwahahaha-ha-ha!
BA, I think you're too close to the discussion to understand the outside point of view anymore. You're looking at it through the eyes of a Fen, because, well, you are a Fen. Every gamer I've shown Handwavium to has either looked at me with a horrified expression or said "that's really cool, but keep it away from me!" Being Fen, you know it's ultimately safe. Not being Fen, we look at it with the "Great God in a Bottle!" expression realizing how horribly it could be perverted (and, as a pervert, I'm quite familiar with perversion! Nudge-nudge).