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vivster on 18 August 2017
Bandorr said:
Aeolus451 said:

Huh? Did I read that right? Are you talking about just within this forum or about in the general sense?

In general. I think there are people out there actually proud of Nazi. Wanting to be Nazi, sympathizing with Nazi etc. Where as idiot and fanboy is just always an insult. If you wanted to refer to someones intelligence, or their feelings toward another company you have to use less vague terms.

But there are plenty of fanboys and idiots on this forum. How can you say it's not accurate to call someone that?



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VGPolyglot on 18 August 2017
vivster said:
Bandorr said:

In general. I think there are people out there actually proud of Nazi. Wanting to be Nazi, sympathizing with Nazi etc. Where as idiot and fanboy is just always an insult. If you wanted to refer to someones intelligence, or their feelings toward another company you have to use less vague terms.

But there are plenty of fanboys and idiots on this forum. How can you say it's not accurate to call someone that?

Isn't idiot specifically a term that's used for people in a specific percentile in the IQ test? So, unless they actually took an IQ test and made it into that group, I guess it's not definitive to say that.



vivster on 18 August 2017
VGPolyglot said:
vivster said:

But there are plenty of fanboys and idiots on this forum. How can you say it's not accurate to call someone that?

Isn't idiot specifically a term that's used for people in a specific percentile in the IQ test? So, unless they actually took an IQ test and made it into that group, I guess it's not definitive to say that.

Nah, it has  apretty broad meaning today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot

Incidentally idiots have an almost 100% overlap with fanboys so you have a very high success chance if you call a fanboy an idiot.



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VGPolyglot on 18 August 2017
vivster said:
VGPolyglot said:

Isn't idiot specifically a term that's used for people in a specific percentile in the IQ test? So, unless they actually took an IQ test and made it into that group, I guess it's not definitive to say that.

Nah, it has  apretty broad meaning today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot

Incidentally idiots have an almost 100% overlap with fanboys so you have a very high success chance if you call a fanboy an idiot.

Hmm, reading that, maybe ignoramus is a better term to use when describing them, instead of idiot? Or maybe fool?



vivster on 18 August 2017
VGPolyglot said:
vivster said:

Nah, it has  apretty broad meaning today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot

Incidentally idiots have an almost 100% overlap with fanboys so you have a very high success chance if you call a fanboy an idiot.

Hmm, reading that, maybe ignoramus is a better term to use when describing them, instead of idiot? Or maybe fool?

Those are certainly the more fitting terms but it's not like all the ignoramouses out there would know that.



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Aeolus451 on 18 August 2017
Bandorr said:
Aeolus451 said:

Huh? Did I read that right? Are you talking about just within this forum or about in the general sense?

In general. I think there are people out there actually proud of Nazi. Wanting to be Nazi, sympathizing with Nazi etc. Where as idiot and fanboy is just always an insult. If you wanted to refer to someones intelligence, or their feelings toward another company you have to use less vague terms.

Here's the thing about nazi. It's used too often to describe people who are not actual nazis or nazi sympathers. It's often used as an insult or as a mechanism to turn a group against someone. True, there's some who think of themselves as nazis but they are very rare. It's becoming a meaningless insult these days in the states.

There are idiots and fanboys in the forum but we can't call eachother idiots/fanboys because it's an insult. Nazi is getting pretty close to the level of those. 



Aeolus451 on 18 August 2017
NintendoPie said:
Aeolus451 said:

So you're telling me this? "Woo hoo, my team did really well. Woo hoo." ....in a dark corner, the others grow annoyed when the noise of his celebration reaches them.....  "Woo hoo. Woo Hoo. My team won. Woo Hoo".     .......They begin to growl as their rage begins to boil out of control....       As the happy go luck frog finally decides to move on, he is swallowed up by the darkness of the others......    ..as they begin to calm down they realize they need to justify their actions.....In hushed whispers, they rationlize it out...... "the evil frog was asking for it! He was taunting us with his hopping about"....."what right does he have to flaunt"......"That evil frog was plotting.....it must have been".... "no way we could lose control".....that damn frog...

The fact that you just made a very competent pity story out of the frog's post history is somewhat impressive, but also a weird stretch.

I'm just trying show to rol and others how ridiculous they sound with that. Also, you really can't expect someone to walk a tight rope that's not clearly defined and if they step out of it or not is determined on others' perspective. In Rol's prespective, someone being overly excited is egregious enough to ban them over it.  



Cobretti2 on 18 August 2017

Ok i am not reading 106 pages.

Ccan someone give me the tl;dr version lol



 

 

VGPolyglot on 18 August 2017
Cobretti2 said:
Ok i am not reading 106 pages.

Ccan someone give me the tl;dr version lol

No way am I doing that.



VGPolyglot on 18 August 2017
RolStoppable said:
VGPolyglot said:

Hmm, reading that, maybe ignoramus is a better term to use when describing them, instead of idiot? Or maybe fool?

Nah, idiot is just fine. It's a great word because it's unambiguous and gets straight to the point. It's like racist, sexist, troll and many others that get too quickly shoved into the corner of insults when they all actually have descriptive meaning and value.

Yeah, but obviously isn't working since you keep on getting banned for saying it. I don't know how much longer they'll put up with it for.