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DonFerrari said: "Amplifying what you said to the extreme from what I can tell is a reduction ad absurdum, since if just pushed further from what you said (since you didn't say anything on the contrary or that could invalidate the inference at the time)."

Reductio ad absurdum is not amplifying anything.  It is taking a position to its logical conclusion.  I'll go back to the Nintendo example.

If I say Nintendo games are always better than Sony games, then the means always.  In every case.  If I truly believed that, I would have to believe that every single Nintendo game is better than every single Sony game.  Saying that I think Animal Crossing Amiibo festival is better than Uncharted 4 is not exaggerating or changing my position.  It is something that would HAVE TO BE true if my original statement were. 

On the other hand, if I said most Nintendo games are better than Sony games, that's a different story.  Me believing that Animal Crossing Amiibo festival is better than Uncharted 4 DOES NOT follow from this.  I can believe that Nintendo games are mostly better without believing this.  If you claim that I do believe Amiibo festival is better than Uncharted 4, then you are altering my position, which would be dishonest.

In the case of this topic, me saying that I care more about the OP than Eurogamer's review does not mean that I care more about anti-sjw stuff than sjw stuff in general.  I can in fact care more about this post than the review without necessarily caring more about anti-sjw stuff in general.  

Furthermore, just because I didn't say anything to the contrary doesn't mean anything.  Let's suppose I inferred that you want to suck Stan Lee's penis.  You have not said anything that can contradict this inference.  That doesn't mean I am justified in assuming you would want to suck Stan Lee's penis.  You can't just infer something because someone hasn't said anything to contradict it.  For an inference to be valid, you must actually be able to support it.  (This btw is a valid reductio ad absurdum.)

https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFallacies/30/Appeal-to-Extremes