Rhade said:
Furthermore, it is just a minor section in a niche indie video game message board, so me saying that some ancient duelist may or may not have used dual wielding efficiently in the past becoming OMG SUCH SUPER SERIAL BUSINESS BECAUSE NO HE DIDN'T, HE JUST ADVOCATED IT AS A STYLE AND NEVER USED IT IN LIVE COMBAT, TRUST ME I AM AN EXPERT is pretty ridiculous. Even if you feel you're right, the smugness of posters when they disagree, I can't help but respond a bit aggressively and thoroughly attempting to embarrass them for their poor logic and reasoning themselves.
I'm not putting weight on the claim that he didn't use it in battle on my authority, I'm putting the weight of it on you. The standard procedure to arguing something is to back it up with a source when you're claiming something about the real world. I would like to point out that you haven't given a source about the claim that he ever used it in battle. I'm pretty sure you wouldn't take anything I claimed about the world seriously unless you have prior experience with it or I gave you a credible source to that claim, so why would you expect me to take you seriously when you claim things about the world? You could ask me to believe on the basis of your authority, but considering your abilities of arguing something seems to consist of yelling really loud and your rhetoric limited to two very basic ad hominems, I'd pass, thank you.
Moreover, in the exchange between you and me, not only do I feel right, I am
actually right concerning what we've talked about. I'm not contesting Musashi had written about fighting with two weapons, I'm saying it was never used in a battle. Further, I'm saying he never meant to use it in battle given that I've not yet heard of any of his students or followers actually use it in battle either. In fact, I'm pretty sure I'm right given that if it were a good system, and a system designed for live combat, everyone after him would have adopted this way of fighting. And to go even further, even for a person who misunderstands the difference between a katana and a wakazashi, I'm pretty sure he can point out the Japanese didn't have divisions of dual wielders running around.