See, the problem here is that you’re choosing to take this…

So, I regularly run Shadowrun as a “My first RPG” and as a “Wait, D&D isn’t the only game?”, but I do it by replacing the mechanics entirely.

… as a personal attack. That was my original reply. Just sharing my experiences of play. Not even intended for you specifically; this is an open discussion forum. I offered an experience and some suggestions that other people might find useful.

You decided that this counts as me attacking you for your choices about how to play games. That happened entirely in your head.

And to make matters worse, rather than clearly stating that objection, even if it was to an imagined insult, you instead responded with an argument about whether or not we’re allowed to say that we’re “running” a game if we’ve swapped out the system. Which is completely different from the objection you’re raising now. And that’s not the first time this has happened in this discussion. I’ve been politely trying to avoid bringing it up, but multiple times now you’ve basically swapped out or drastically re-framed your entire argument. None of your last post is even directly responsive in any way to my last. It’s just a new angle of attack fresh out of the blue.

To be honest, I don’t think you actually know what it is you’re upset about. While I’m sure I could accuse you of moving goalposts or engaging in other bad faith tactics, I think that’s what actually happening here is that you know you’re upset, and you’re unconsciously doing your best to come up with reasons why. That’s not to say that all of those reasons are untrue, but it’s what tends to happen when we feel an emotional response to something that we haven’t fully reasoned out on a conscious level.

And for that reason I’m going to step away from this discussion. Because while I feel perfectly happy defending my argument, I don’t think you’re happy making whatever argument it is that you’re actually trying to make.