I win.

If you nerf nerfing... haven't you in fact buffed it?

Ooo, nice counter-attack. Although I'm not sure nerfing works the same as negatives. While a double negative indicates a positive, does a double nerf really indicate a buff? I think instead double (and greater) nerfs would instead lead to a more concrete status quo... no?

I would think nerfing nerfing would lead to a less potent nerf to everything else. But still a nerf.

http://www.firetoys.co.uk/juggling/pocket_nerf_howler.jpg

^^ Nerf this? By making it a lethal weapon? Or... by making it softer... *ponders*

The point can put an eye out, the idiots! :<

A less potent nerf is a nerf that is in fact less nerfed than before... anything that is less nerfed than it once was is buffed. QED

Vote Teh Ninny!

Ahh, so you suggesting we nerf the pre-existing nerfs, not the act of nerfing. Because if you are implying that nerfing the act of nerfing results in a situation where the object of said act of nerfing is, because of the nerfing of the nerfing, better off than it would have been before said nerfing of the nerf, and therefore buffed; Then I would argue that the term "buffed" is applicable only once all nerfing of the nerf is conclude, simply because it is a term that is applied to the end result (see the commonly used term "hit with the nerf stick" which implies that nerfing is an act, not an end result. No matter how much you nerf the act of nerfing, and because nerfing is an extractor, and because of the fact that you cannot exceed the status quo and still refer to something as "nerfing".... therefore....

....I've completely lost my train of thought and really quite dread the thought of spending the next hour drunkenly trying to sort that out...

...but you get the point.

Nope, nerf the nerf itself and it becomes a nerfed nerf.

What is nerfed is no longer as much X as it was before it was nerfed.

Thus, a nerfed nerf is no longer as nerf as it was before.

A nerf that isn't as nerf must be more of the opposite of nerf.

The opposite of nerf is buff.

A nerf that isn't as nerf as it was before is more buffed.

It's all as plain as nerf.

How the hell did you just reply to my post before I posted it?

/edit: oh.... (puts down the brownish white smoking thing in his hand....)

/edit: Right, so the end result of the nerf, not the act of nerfing...

Nerf nerfing nerfers!

*votes for Teh Ninny*

Let's reduce all ship stats to ZERO, so they are all, FINALLY equal. Then we can sit around in stations and talk more.

Buff nerfing. I don't care if 50 other people in this thread disagree with me and I'm the only one who thinks so. Nerfing should be buffed because I want it to be and I don't care what anyone else says.

Bump because this is nerfing awesome.

Damn you Cannibal Lecter....

I'd want Dr. Lecter to be nerfed, but he'd sue and end up buffed. I'm sure there's some nerf-nerf law he could use.

Anyway, on the topic, Nerf Nerfing implies that the nerfing process itself should be nerfed, and as such only applies to future nerfing.

"Decresed Prometheus hitpoints to 1700, but since nerfing is nerfed, it turned out to only be decreased by 2 points!"