User blog comment:Madman97/You know what really grinds my Wabbajack's? S3E1: I can't kill these guys/@comment-25109952-20131025182427/@comment-13446185-20131107204003

Yes, I did know about the "protected" system.

Because you didn't mention the "protected" setting once in any comment until I mentioned it, and you claimed that if the NPCs weren't set to essential that it was inevitable that some would die to in-game hazards.

When I did mention the protected setting you replied this:

"Bethesda was just lazy and didn't feel like going over every "essential" character and setting them as "protected" instead."

Then after that you replied this:

"Because I've seen bugs posts on forums where "protected" characters ended up dead anyways. From personal experience,"

Your first reply seemed to imply that you agree that setting NPCs to protected might have been a good idea and the reason it was left out was because of Bethesda's laziness. But your second reply gives an explanation to why it is a bad idea, defending Bethesda's choice on making NPCs "essential'. This made me assume you looked more into the "protected" setting after my comment.

I'm sorry if I put words into your mouth.

I also never said the "casual gamer conspiracy" doesn't exist,

I never said you didn't, now you're putting words in my mouth.