So, I decided to remove my avatar for now, until I got the mod team to approve it. Am I allowed to use this?:

Absolutely not.

So, I decided to remove my avatar for now, until I got the mod team to approve it. Am I allowed to use this?

- Mod Edit -

Removed image, added a link instead. We don't need that on the page.

Carl

Just for the record, I liked it. Those women are in love.

I've got an avatar waiting of Chun Li in a whole different engagement. But we can't have it sadly. Unfair and cruel.

The counter-argument to Pagan's posts can be backed up with plenty of evidence. What Pagan said is actually comparable to saying that the Earth is flat.

When Pagan portrayed the other side as "give me gimmicky games", it was equal to "we want shitty games" based on the context of his previous posts. That's plain insulting and comes with a clear intention to rile other people up.

It's not like the mod team isn't aware of this. zorg1000's ban note contains explicit agreement with zorg's posts which makes it all the more baffling that the instigator was let off the hook. When someone makes a claim, the burden of proof is on them. What the mod team does, however, is to hold the opposition to a standard where it is a must to follow all rules and procedure, making it a necessity to disprove claims. Meanwhile, the initial claim isn't held to any standards; apparently people are free to say whatever comes to their mind and don't have to back it up with anything. If that's how VGC is moderated, then intelligent discussion will have a hard time of happening, because the illogical and unreasonable gets preferential treatment.

As for your reasons to side with Pagan, you have one that you didn't mention: He made an argument against Nintendo and that falls in line with your own argumentation. In the past you've made unreasonable claims like "Nintendo doesn't make games for adults" and "artificial shortages and artificial demand", so it is in your best interest to have a forum where you are free to say such things without being held accountable for them.

The existence of a god or gods can neither be proved or disproved, so by my standards neither stance would be a bannable offense.

Your example of religion isn't comparable to the presented case here. After all, the games Nintendo made are facts.

I attribute malice to his posts because his opinion is inconsistent with the facts.

1. He says that the IPs NIntendo put out in 2017 were good while the same IPs were present during the years he describes as no good.

2. He says that Labo is what he doesn't like and that during some years of Nintendo's past they completely focused on such games.

These are major contradictions and that's why he isn't merely having an opinion, but arranging pieces to get a rise out of others. The facts do not line up with his claims. That he made an additional post for the sole purpose to insult others makes it clear that malice was in play.

The mod team has yet to comment on this case. Since I am aware that they loathe it to say that I am right, I take their silence as silent agreement while they are sitting in mod chat and hope that the issue ceases to be interesting and stops being discussed.