The answer is simple, but you don't like the answer so you come up with this multipage explanation through

an obtuse labyrinth of reasoning that you alone can follow

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SW-User

This is why I dont like people who talk.

DDonde · 31-35, M

@SW-User Here I'm thinking of people who like to come with any other explanation for something other than the simplest one.

SW-User

@DDonde As a way to deflect or make themselves appear more clever?

DDonde · 31-35, M

@SW-User Sometimes. Or sometimes I think they just really don't want to accept a certain answer so they'll come up with any other answer besides the one they don't like.

SW-User

@DDonde Yep.