Democratic congresswoman shot in Arizona.

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Kasz216 said:

Mr Khan said:

richardhutnik said:

 

Also, I do know that a partisan rift can result in REAL ugly opinions forming, like the time where my thoughts of you being an uberawesome person on here getting tanked, because of what I was reading in a political thread.  That is NOT good.  This site is for VIDEOGAMES.  Why have an offtopic area topic cause changes in opinions?

Most of the prominent off-topic users just hang out here. Wesslewoggle and SciFiBoy did in their day, Highwaystar (though he seems to have disappeared as well), and Kasz, among others. It's like its own little bastion of VGC

I still read the other forums, I just don't post there anymore.

In offtopic you can debate stuff and a lot of it is based on opinion, so even if someone else has a REALLY crackpot opinion,  it's usually ok, because it's an opinion and it's somewhat hard to measure a number of this stuff.

 

While stuff in the sales forums are just outright insane.  I mean, with so much numerical precedent you get the most crackpot made up predictions based on nothing, to the point of where you could drop a whole mountain of historical information on why it wouldn't work and the people wouldn't be phased.

Like a lot of people trying to blow off Kinect's success... even though it sold ridiculiously huge early numbers.

I also read and post on the other forums but have cut back a lot simply because there isn't much new or interesting to debate about ...

Most of the "big games" people talk about are sequels to games that have already been released this generation, or have been in development for so long that there isn't much to talk about; and there isn't much to debate which hasn't been debated endlessly for the past 4 years.