$100 says they rule that if you no longer meet the prereq for an Equipment, it stays Equipped but you can't use it (in line with Entities) and then they will realize the problem this causes with Pym Particles and make a contradictory rules for them specifically.

Anyone wanna take the bet?

That wasn't even me beign pedantic, that was me asking you to provide your reasoning, and you trying to use "no one knows anything" to somehow back up your point. (THIS is me being pedantic.)

Can't I just make baseless claims like the other 60 posts is this damn thread? Why do mine need supporting documentation?

You ask for reasoning and I'll whisper back, "No."

Cool story, bro.

Were I to bet, I'd bet they do something more along the lines of making a new definition of standard character that only excludes such things as team bases, vehicles, duos, and colossals and is completely at odds with what's currently in the rulebook, then pretending it was that way all along.

Past experience indicates that this one has good odds.

Unacceptable. Provide reasoning and resubmit.

Well I'm kind of cheating since the "must be standard character to be equipped" already falls into this category.

I'll get right on that, as soon as you provide your reasoning for why it's pretty clear that "standard character" means single based.

Seriously, if you had just given an actual reason for why that was what you thought, this whole pissing contest would have been avoided.

I didn't say it meant that. I said it seems the designers think it means that.

You were saying something about pedantry, too.

Eh, sorta but not really. It's all about macro phrasing, man. What's the whole point, as painted by the whole post or body of posts? And the general inability (or unwillingness) to demonstrate an understanding of my simple (idiotic even) point in a way just confirms that point: Heroclix designers don't use language with much precision or accuracy, so debating rules as if they do, which is what the gurus here must do, is ultimately counterproductive.

Again, I'm not implying this is good. It's sorta terrible, because if they don't know what they're saying, how the hell do we know what they're saying? The only way to fix it is to force them to get better, not by coddling their lazyness by playing or ruling as written IF doing so feels wrong. And in this case, it sorta feels wrong. In a case where someone asks how Sidestep works and it's clearly defined and right there, then yes, fine, rules pros know their ####. But nobody is a pro in the grey areas. And, unfortunately, because the rulebook is NOT a reliable narrator, too much of this game is slipping into the grey area.

Plus, I think Vlad wants to make out with me, because his incessant nitpickery of my questionable syntax is bordering on flirting.

Tl/dr: The WES crew needs to get their #### together.

Perhaps it would help if they started using Capitalized Terms when they refer to something that actually has a definition somewhere.

As would be done in any business contract.

Capitalized Terms: words which have a specific meaning, regardless of the particular context. Contrasted with generic words which mean whatever a judge says they mean.

Yinz must be from around here.

I was remembering the Blackest Night definition for "standard," too. I understood which symbols were "standard" but didn't realize a "standard character" must be "with" all of them in order to not be considered "non-standard."