kowenicki said:
spemanig said:
Oh, for Pete's S-
WHO. CARES?
Is "subjectivity" the new "that's your opinion" now? Who cares if progress is subjective? That literally changes nothing about what I said. Being able to play new games on old hardware and upgrade when you want instead of the artificial cut offs we have now is progress. Having every new piece of hardware be backwards and forwards compatable is progress. There is literally no downside to a system like this. It is, by the numbers, superior to what was there before in literally every way. It isn't even like digital only where that would at least mess with collectors. This literally harms no party while adding flexibility were it was once technologically impractical to do so.
Bringing up that progress is subjective in such a dry numbers case as this is a careless abuse of the leniency of the word. Sure, calling forward compatibility progress is "subjective." Calling the cotton gin progress is "subjective." Calling the assembly line progress is "subjective." Calling the internet progress is "subjective." Calling the smart phone progress is "subjective." Everything is "subjective." Everything is "just an opinion." We live in an era where everyone is a delicate little flower and every idea has to be equal and no idea is wrong because hey, technically that's not how opinions work!
Well guess what? Having an opinion in-and-of itself doesn't make it valid, or intelligent, or hold weight. Stop trying to use subjectivity as some catch-all argumentative "get out of jail free" card so that you don't have to validate your arguments. If you think that your "idea" is more valid than mine, stop hiding behind the "it's just your opinion, bro" defense mechanism and actually support it. "That's subjective" isn't a valid response to anything. It's just using redundancy to meekly deflect attention away from the point of view being contested. That's all it ever will be. An underhanded way out. But not today.
Stop muddying the discussion with ubiquitously obvious semantics. If you have something to argue, argue it. If you think your opinion is more valid than mine, show me up by out-supporting me. If you don't, don't respond. Or be dignified by waving a white flag. Or do literally anything more classy than "that's your opinion"-ing me.
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what a fantastic post. Bravo.
OT. Why are people (deliberately?) misinterpreting what has been said here? It's like some people have a fixed agenda or bias or something? Surely not...
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It's easier to read just the headline and post according to your usual attitude than to actually read what has been said, of course.
