Well ... damn ... that was really odd.
Two missing parts of my rubric(a guide listing specific criteria for grading or scoring academic papers, projects, or tests )
YouTube - Solving Simultaneous Equations by Elimination Example 1 simultaneous equation example
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Are what required me to "go longhand" and call out for objective review.
I have made much (of late) about "logical construction" and how >anything< based on an Fallacious precept ..
generally does not turn out well ...
this remains a truism that , after objective testing/consideration, is actually in some small way "truer".
Mainly because I "re-discovered" / "re-reviewed" the "foundations" *tip o-da-Hat AesSedai* >
of MY precepts<(me "logics" if you will)
I avoided the common error of "
self confidence" by not selecting any review that maybe "sympathetic".
I farmed the precepts/syllogisms/ conclusions out to ...
hmmmm ... how to say ... persons not inclined to "give me a break" ... grudge bearers perhaps?
(not actual enemies per se ... I am somewhat feared for my past history with such ... and those who "might be" are quite deep in hiding)
I am confident to a high degree that I received an aggressive and honest assessment.
(think of it ... a chance to publicly(in that circle) Prove Fayled Wrong. Booby-traps and sand-bagging will, {as always} prove to be fatal flaws.)
Shades of Hari Seldon ... It is possible for one small (single character size flaw! single signed bit even !! )
One Small Error MAY not only be created ... it MAY disappear into the >software< In An Undiscoverable/Undefinable manner.
Stealth bugs
^^ THAT answered MY question:
Is it possible, given the long history of bugs being present in UO ... that a
deeper causal flaw >>
may have inadvertently been compiled INTO the base code of UO ...
Such that the UO client will always create bugs ... An RPG in concept ... BUT a bug/meme generating construct in fact.
Perfect in concept, on paper, boot it up and fail. Patch the software in QA, good to go, deploy & fail, return to test bed ... holy crap ... it is intermittent; think its patched ... stress test fail, patch that ... stress test passes ... single shards fail ... wtf? Ha! >new client< .... AAAAAAARGH! bugs ... where the frak can they be coming from?
recent data point.
Rather prescient, now that I look back:
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains,
no matter how improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes
There were actually TWO "problems" that I paradigm shifted on ...
I WAS originally attempting to extract some zero knowledge data about Mythic (*Tips hat to Tina*) ... during variable assignment/definition (my equation was of the same form as the ZK link provides ... more variables and different scales ...custom cut, if you will)
It fell out that independent of hardware, Players and software appeared to overlap, as is easy to see, present day ... they MUST "overlap": the players "play" ON the software.
It was when I was separating the overlap with occams razor, that MY paradigm shift occurred.
War does not determine who is right - only who is left. -Bertrand Russell

hehehe ... you are likely at the same place as what I "discovered" (re-discovered? re-realized? affirmed as axiomatic?)
Some of the "accepted precepts" of the local forums are
revealed here to be Fallacies in their nature.
Especially as regards "what players want".
Tastes and fashions change ... yes? ... so too the "bestest" way to waste ones time ...
WOW is the top's of MMORPGs ... at ~~10 millio's ... right?
*ahem*
62 million active users and over 24.6 million "application fans" ... is whom?

*shrugs*
Goes to rebuilding a "basic precept"(without fallacies) as to what might bring peeps back to UO.
On top of (combined with) bug free software ...
My ZK slapped me for a "making a stupid declaration" and my simultaneous equation rated that a 10/10 as an "appropriate response".
And *hand to gods* I caught the faint echo of the universe
laughing at my question.
it has already been done
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