impertinence said: Mummelmann. I probably should also have called out John Lucas earlier for his guesswork on your cynical state of mind, as you point out that kind of stuff has no business in a thread like this and should not be even approached upon in his post. I guess I didn't fully see it in between all the cascades of rhetoric and I fully understand that you get pissed off at that attempt. You are also correct in identifying this as a suppression technique and are in the right for calling it out. Harshly. However, you are in no position to make claims about someones mental health based on what you read on a forum. This is twice you have moved to diagnose John Lucas with a serious mental condition, something you know full well you do not have the competence nor knowledge to do. In fact, I immediately stopped reading your reply when I got to that section as that alone discredits the post in my mind. It is a shame, because I have been looking forward to your rebuttal, and it was going very well for a while too. That kind of posting is also what will probably get this thread locked again, to the joy of Seece and widespread sadness across the rest of VGChartz. Anyway, I touched on this last night and got called out for being off topic so I will give a few comments on the parts I did read: I think you are too set in your belief that the 'casual' market has forever moved on to tablets. I think you are reading too much into the unfriendly practices of Nintendo and the liberating force of the PlayStation brand. Even if that was the case, this is decades in the past and it is very poor decision making if 3rd parties are carrying this fall out over into the 8th generation. The best parts were when you linked John Lucas' description of the failed Sony business model to the current state of Nintendo. That was clinical and a complete dismantlement. |
Fair enough. I just don't understand how a person can be so completely and utterly infatuated with himself and I've never seen anything like this before, comparing yourself to the likes of Leonardo Da Vinci and the Wright Brothers is just really, really off the grid in my opinion.
I do appologize if anyone is offended by that particular play, it might have been petty and wrong of me but I must interject that he actually diagnosed me in his post... Regardless, I won't stoop to that level in future posts, and thank you for having the balls to come right out and say it, impertinence, I think you're a good poster with a fair mindset.
If ayone is wondering why the formatting is the way it is; let's be honest, no one wants to scroll through more than one 35.000 word + post in here, I know I don't. You don't need a million words to convey an opinion or pose an argument. And it's also about not playing his game, he wants me to see a wall of text, be discouraged, run out of steam and patience and run screaming.
I keep it to the point, and will continue doing so. I will shift even more focus away from his person and unto his arguments.
PS: For real though; with that behemoth post, he didn't really refute the main arguments, they were mostly side-stepped and this fact was hidden in a storm of philosophical rants. He could just as easily have presented his case with 1/10 of the words and probably have had a lot more impact. A massive, hulking post does not equal a massively intelligent post.
He's a decent writer but has trouble staying on point.