My Thoughts on Cheese

I need to write this down while it's in mind. Was going to put in a post, but I didn't want to risk diverting the thread into an age-old debate (Yeah, like anyone listens to me ). Perhaps I'll get a chance to copy and paste it when its more relevant, which should be in about a week. We've got a new set coming and a lot of old "cheese" is being retired. There's a slew (sp?) of threads speculating the new dominant strategies. Everything goes in cycles, it seems.

Right. My analogy:

Cheese does exist (Sorry, tchipley. I never was the church-going type). Using it is like bringing a gun to a knife fight (the stabby kind, not the don't-move-your-foot kind).

Now, you've got all sorts of knives. Machetes, switchblades, combat knives, even those weird serpentine daggers that no one would ever use except to stab someone who's already on a slab (But you know there's someone who's an expert fighter with the silly thing). Still they're all knives. They follow certain conventions. But a gun is a very different weapon.

Now, no one ever said that you couldn't bring a gun. Same way there's no real restriction on lead pipes and hatchets (these are un-comic themes, like colors or archetypes, for those keeping score). In fact, bringing a gun is probably the smartest thing to do until you run into that lanky knife-thrower from the Magnificent Seven.

Still, bringing a gun to a knife fight is considered very unsporting and generally frowned upon. If one person starts packing heat, then everyone starts carrying and whole thing escalates. And nobody wants that. It doesn't make for a very fun knife fight and the people came for some blade-on-blade action, or at the very least to watch Jackie Chan fight a mob with a pair of chopsticks.

The moral: Jackie Chan needs to do a samurai flick or wire-fight movie. Wait, that's not right...