Kind of a side note.
I think it's overly easy in political threads to get arguably off topic.
If you have a conversation about PlayStation, you might also talk about MS gaming and Nintendo to compare and contrast to Sony, to talk about their approaches to different things. To bolster the conversation about Sony. But it feels like that's a tighter subject matter.
But politics is ridiculously broad. What is a woke game pretty naturally becomes a conversation about what does woke mean; we're almost instantly talking about stuff that has nothing to do with games. A lot of these political threads feel like they've gone over a line to no longer being on topic, but I have no idea where the line should be.
| KLAMarine said: As for the savior talk, I'm referring to the whole vibe of the commercial: it feels like Google patting themselves on the back for phone camera tech that solves a problem that really just needed better lighting. |
Does anyone know what this is? It feels kind of strawman fallacy-y, but it feels different to me.
Where you exaggerate something to make it seem silly, feels like a strawman fallacy.
I've seen people act like being called racist is somehow worse than a death threat. And I've seen people act like doing a regular good deed is "savior" like material. There's this weird hyperbole where you act like something is being treated 100x more seriously than anyone in the world is treating it.
Unless this is literally the first commercial you've ever seen, no one is watching that commercial thinking that Google is patting themselves on the back as some kind of savior.
There are 5 million commercials that are patting themselves on the back for anything. Nike puts out commercials that make it seem like their shoes make someone an athlete. Plenty of tech companies put out commercials that make it seem like they're making history.
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