theprof00 on 13 March 2009
So I say:
congratulations now we are talking semantics. But i guess that is your only argument to begin with. (Your argument now solely rests on targeting meaning exclusion of other demographics)
I guess they just appeal to women by chance, because there obviously was no "targetting"- targetting meaning to aim at a certain direction. (At this point I am really tired of your argument and I pose a quetion sarcastically. How does something appeal to something if it was not designed that way?)
What I like about those WoW commercials is that they all feature men (shatner, troyer, Mr.T, ozzy) I guess it is just coincidence though. (another sarcastic comment. Obviously I am really tired and I'm done with being polite. This is evidence against your "Just because an ad for a game targets a demographic, it doesn't necessarily follow that the game also does" argument) PS: What you need to understand is that, for the most part, advertising will try to come close to the ratio of demographic that the product "appeals" to. In that way it is easy to estimate the demographic of a product by looking at who the ads "target". This is all scholarly written fundamentals and journal articles so I wouldn't expect anyone to know this. I am just trying to inform whoever wants to know. (This is all proven material, I am backing up my point with facts again to really try and drive the point home)
Your last reply:
I know, it's frustrating how these words we use actually mean certain things. (apparently you don't know the meaning of some of them, like "target") And if you use the wrong words, people think your saying stuff you don't actually mean to say. (you mean like how I said that it was good to have games that appeal to women but you took it as me saying that nintendo should exclusively target women. Whats really funny is that your argument hinges on the word target but my original wording used "appeal" ROFL)But language is all scholarly and stuff, and so I don't expect you to know this. I'm just trying to inform you that when you use the word 'targeted' it means you're only trying to hit the specific target and not everything else around it. (A target can be in the middle of a spectrum. It doesn't have to be one or the other)
To summarize: Most of these misinterpretations were yours, as not only did you misquote me in the beginning, but you also misrepresented the commercials of the games you talked about. I think that at this point, your only argument is that "targeting is an act of exclusivity". If you find the answer to that problem, the answer I already know, you will understand why your argument is stupid.
