FrankTrollman wrote:you literally quoted a part of the text where it said that the "cost" of "succeeding at a cost" at the action "try not to get seen" was "getting seen."
I am genuinely uncertain as to whether or not you read the right post, because the only quoted text that is even slightly relevant is when someone succeeded at not getting seen, and the MC said he got spotted, and then backtracked because
that is not a valid result for a success. The actual result of the example is that he's hidden for now, but they'll find him before long, giving him a narrow window of opportunity to respond. So he got a partial success and was partially successful at hiding.
You can keep doing this bullshit where you claim the reason you didn't respond to that at the time is because you (and, apparently, everyone else, something which you confirmed through some kind of secret poll?) couldn't be bothered, but since you went on responding to
silva that is obviously not the case.
It's not a gish-gallop when there
actually is a mountain of evidence refuting your claim. It's just you having made a really stupid claim.
EDIT: @Schpeelah: Have you considered reading the entire quote you're critiquing? Specifically this line?
Are any of them doing things offscreen that, while invisible to the players’ characters, deserve your quiet notice?
This includes stuff like "setting up an ambush."