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potato_hamster on 24 June 2017
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zorg1000 said:
potato_hamster said:

I have never once used the argument that they have done dumb things so they will make dumb things. I said they have done dumb things so it's foolish to assume they won't do dumb things. But again, arguing against things I've never said (which is a textbook definiton of a strawman argument) tends to be par or the course around here.

Yes, Sony and MS are guilty of both making greedy decisions, and limiting player freedom. What makes you think I'm ignoring it even if I haven't talked about it on this site? Most of the time much of what I would say is already covered by other posters. What do I have to add to the conversation by simply repeating what others have said one more time? It's not like I can "like a post" like on facebook to show I agree with it. Besides, what do you expect? For me to keep track of the number of times I've shit on Nintnendo, Sony and MS to make sure they're all equal?

As for what I said against Sony and MS - I've made close to 5000 posts on this site in a little over 2 years. Just because you didn't see me say something doesn't mean I haven't said it.


1. essentially the same thing, my point remains.

 

2. it doesnt make any sense to single out a company and criticize them for something that holds true for the entire industry.

 

3. true, but there is no denying that you have been far harsher on Nintendo than MS/Sony despite them being just as bad, if not worse than Nintendo on many occassions. almost everything you post in Nintendo threads is negative so its no surprise people think you are biased against them.


1. Not essentially the same thing at all. One thing makes me sound like I think Nitnendo is a bunch of bumbling idiots that can't learn from their mistakes, and the other acknowledges that Nintendo is full of human beings who aren't perfect, so I don't assume they won't make bad decisions.

2. Ohh okay. Should people make sure they dump on Sega and their bad decisions around the Sega CD and 32X every time they want to talk about a poor choice Nintendo made about the Super Nintendo? No? Why should do effectively the same thing?

I'm not singling out any one company. It just so happens that many conversations on this site about Nintendo feature people holding Nintendo to different standards than they do Sony and MS. I hope this isn't a point of contention, because it seems pretty obvious to me. But besides that, I have no obligation to focus on the big three equally. If I choose to comment of Nitnendo's bullshit more, that's my perogative. That still doesn't mean I hate or even dislike Nintendo. Do you praise Sony, Nintendo and MS equally? Do you shit on Sony, Nintendo and MS equally? I bet you don't, so why are you expecting the same from me?

3. See the whole thing about MS/Sony being "just as bad, if not worse", that's a matter of subjective opinion. I do see Nintendo as overal being worse than Sony on a consistent basis especially since joining the site, and MS is such a non-player to me in the video game space that I really don't care about their bullshit. But that brings up a logical inconsistency doesn't it? I call Sony out on their bullshit far, far more than I call MS out on theirs. By the same logic you're using to claim that I'm "biased" against them, doesn't that mean that I should also be "biased in favor of MS" since I by my own admission, I shit on them the least? That's completely non-sensical.

But still, Even if I do call out Nintendo on their bullshit by a large margin more than the other two, that still doesn't mean I hate or dislike them. I scold my kid far more than I scold his friends for acting like little shits. Does that mean I'm biased against my kid? Of course not.

I wasn't on this site during the PS3 launch, so you didn't get subjected to the ravings I made about that console's launch, and how many balls were dropped.  I wasn't on this site when I had the frustrating experience of playing my legal copy of Monster Hunter with a friend who was playing on a modded PSP, and his game ran much better than mine. I wasn't on this site when Sony spent 20 minutes with that stupid AR book bullshit during E3. I came on this site in the middle of Sony getting their groove back on the PS4, and making a lot of right choices too keep that console experience awesome while Nintendo was in the middle of fucking up the Wii U, the bullshit that is the NES Classic, and the launch of the Switch. But that doesn't mean I didn't shit all over Sony to my friends, and other corners of the internet when that Sony bullshit happened, I just wasn't here shitting on Sony at the time.

But hey, if you want to keep making assumptions about me, be my guest.