In defense of Microsoft: A response to DMeisterJ

[Final-Fan]

starcraft said:

Final-Fan said:
What gave me that idea was the subtitle "A response to DMeisterJ" and you saying that "he vehemenently declared that GTAIV, far from helping the Xbox 360, is the standard we will look back on and associate with the console's death." This clearly refers to the OP even if he put it in the form of a question. He did not advance that line of questioning at all (that I remember) in subsequent posts, only adding a couple of remarks to things like the unrelated SW post and a shit-ton of clarifications aimed at people refusing to properly read the OP. If you had made the subtitle "A response to thread 25845" (or something equivalent but better-sounding) then it would make sense to include responses to things other than the OP and on-topic discussion descending from it (in this case basically none IIRC). 

The thing is, I went on to qualify the subtitle by discussing DMeisterJ's comments throughout the thread. I also specified in the OP that I was talking about the entire thread. At the end of the day, you can reasonably argue that I didn't specify specifically in the thread title that anything in the thread was up for debate. But at the same time, I can reasonably argue that I did specify that I was responding to all of DmeisterJ's comments in the thread.

OK, but that part of your OP ("DMeisterJ attempted to change his thread to specify that it referred only to hardware (which as I have shown, is clearly not beginning to end) but not before qualifying software discussion with this comment: / "Ahh... / "360's last stand, software. / "What's next? Revenue? LULZ") seemed to me to be implying that that comment related to the discussion topic of the OP.  I guess I was wrong.  Sorry.