@Schwartzritter:
All I will say is that, I once staunchly resisted TMO for the very same reasons you claim to. I
read about it. After having tried it myself, I quickly realized that I had made a lot of fuss over nothing. Yeah, TMO was harder than Stock and in different ways, more difficult than RFB. But TMO, IMHO, is by no means or by any definition of the term, "
brutal".
When you replied, "
I accept criticism for dispensing a judgment without trying the mod", the first thing that came to my mind was that, I wasn't criticizing you. I was merely stating a fact according to your own words. That's not criticism. That's repeating, albeit in more clarifying words, something that you've already avowed. It would be childish for me to criticize you simply because you criticize TMO, even though you've never played it. To each his own and I respect that.
Trust me, no one did, or was going to, convince me to try TMO. I was
that adamant about it. I had to learn about it on my own and by my own initiative. After having tried TMO, and recollecting my behavior toward some of the members who tried futilely to assure me of it's playability, I learned a big lesson about myself.
No, I wasn't criticizing you. I don't develope a point a view about someone based on their selection of mods (
chuckle). I can say this: You cannot appropriately convince a point of view based on hearsay, or someone else's experience with something, especially if they haven't tried it themselves, or they gave up on it right away because they became too accustomed to a simpler way.
Try it for yourself, w/o a biased inclination, and then I'll take what you say seriously.
