exindguy said:
This would be another in a long line of cases dating back to the ancient Greeks where someone mistakes that their opinion should be and/or is the universal view--in other words, an interesting, if clichéd, fallacy that, seemingly, never quite goes out of style. (In other words, it isn't enough that you enjoy a game/book/movie a great deal, but anyone that disagrees must, by extension, be foolish, wicked or stupid when it could just be, to that individual, the game/book/movie in question simply does not resonate or, put more simply, their opinion differs from your own for any number of reasons.) (And, for the record, I generally enjoy Valve's work, if not quite to the cult-like level on display in this quote.) |
I refuse to amend "IMO" to a statement which is reflexively my opinion, which cannot be anything but my opinion. Obviously Portal's quality is my opinion - I am not even referring to the general consensus (and there is much on this point) that Portal was the game to beat in 2007, or at least one of the top two.
I appreciate your attempt to curb the fallacy that opinion = fact, but a more rampant fallacy on this website (of which you have fallen victim to) is that "statement of opinion = statement of opinion as fact" in all cases where an "in my opinion" is not tacked onto the end of it.
