IGN Finally Gives Smash Bros Wii U a 9.8!

[naruball]

Super_Boom said:

naruball said:

Not exactly. You can disagree with a review all you want but when you make a general comment about a site for its reviews ("IGN is trash anyways", "you can't spell ignorance without IGN", "I stopped caring about IGN years ago"), then you most certainly can't praise them when it suits you. Well, you can but it's still hypocritical. Of course that is not limited to Ninty fans. I've seen other users being hypocritical about IGN and Gamespot. And to an extent Polygon.

Herein lies the issue. You're basically trying to reconcile different groups of people that are taking fault with first review. Of course, people who claim all reviews by a certain site should be dismissed, only to turn around and cling to another review by the same site, are most certainly being hypocritical. I don't think anyone will disagree with this. 

 

The problem is not that anyone will disagree with this; it's that they won't admit that they're being hypocritical. Name one person who has admitted so, no matter what evidence you show them. The reaction you'll get is either flaming, telling you that you're derailing the thread, telling you that they won't bother reading your reply to them and to never quote them again, that they're done with this, or anything in order to deflect the question you are asking them.

I fail to see how that leads to a healthy discussion, as you say. All you end up doing is wasting yoru time because people simply refuse to admit that they are wrong.