pokoko said:
Trunkin said:
Yes, it is just a word. Words are used to express ideas or concepts. While words themselves don't really change, the ideas they represent do depending on the context, or simply just over the passage of time. The word "gimmick" used on gaming forums has primarily meant something along the lines of, "a feature that adds no useful functionality to a system's gaming capabilities, and which exists for the sole purpose of marketing or giving a console a unique appearance on the surface." It is absolutely used almost exclusively as an insult, and this isn't anything new. It's been consistently used this way for the past 10 years.
It's also pretty clear from his later posts that the OP means exactly that with his use of the word, so it looks like everyone is on the same page except you...
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If by "same page" you mean becoming offended over a word that really isn't offensive then, trust me, I'm okay with not even being in the same chapter, much less on the same page. Becoming all politically correct over a electronic device is just silly. Businesses use gimmicks in marketing and advertising. That's just the simple truth.
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But you are always on the same page when it comes to make jabs at Nintendo and its fan, the thing that baffles me the most is how you believe nobody realizes of what you do when actually you always make it so damn obvious is hard not to see it. In this thread you are suggesting Nintendo fans have a ridiculous inferiority complex because they sometimes feel offended by a word that has been used on an offensive way for more than a decade, amazing.
