User blog comment:Frostyflytrap/Miscellaneous Category/@comment-4628859-20151204201211

Well, it seems we have two opposite contained in this blog post. It first started out in a logical discussion and then ended in a personal appeal to the over-sensitive in attempts to avoid an arduous, entangled discussion. I sensed greatly an emotional undercurrent to this all, not implying any negativity whatsoever, which made me feel that you literally wrote down everything you had relating to the subject.

I feel the essence of this blog post is that some game components are such a combination of the aspects that we assign to categories that they belong equally in both, but cannot go in both; thus, you are going ahead with adding them to a special category. In simpler terms these components are hybrids or, in more humorous terms, platypuses (an odd mammal that lays eggs as opposed to giving birth to live young). In view of that, this blog post is likely intended to be an announcement and later reference for why you are doing such.

Now I have no qualms with you adding the category for the simple reason that we soon will have a list of all components that are unique. With what I am suggesting below, the category may not have the right name to fit but will serve the same purpose.

You did bring up a relevant point that some categories do not fit the subject, and for some they technically belong in one category when they appear like another. Rather than tell specifically how to deal with the articles you suggested, which would not be difficult as they are simple to solve, I believe we should create subcategories for components that have elements from another category. A good deal of the components suggests could be solved with the obstacles category, but some may not. Along with subcategories, we should likely create a banner-like template possibly named Template:Disputed category so that one can write why a main category doesn't fit, thus allowing a discussion to place the component in a subcategory or create a new subcategory.

I have the feeling you wont be surprised I read this in light of its length and somewhat complexity. I suppose I have an affinity for long articles and discussion... which I seem to cause.