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Forums - Microsoft Discussion - Epic find Gears 2 reviews “humbling”

Daddo Splat on 04 November 2008

haters will always spin crap I did think it was negative at first until I read what he said then I understood. Still haters cant unserstand they can only spin if this game goes off its another thorn in they're flesh. And it kills them so all they can do is hate.



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theprof00 on 05 November 2008
Khuutra said:
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That is a long post that doesn't say a lot.

Mike Capps made the statement, not Cliff B.

“It’s really humbling to see such great review scores coming in so far, and we’re glad that reviewers have been excited about the many changes we’ve made in the sequel,” he told CVG.

When something positive is humbling, it means that it's far and above what you were expecting. This is not hard to draw from context.

Tell me how you got that from the title. Because that is what I've been talking about this whole time. Does someone need to slap you with a trout?

 

 

I would suggest, next time, that you simply read the OP.

I would suggest, next time, that you and jasoncc realize that we are talking about the title. Within the context the title implies bad reviews because of natural tendancy to take that phrase as negative. It is a linguistic thing. I know that words have different meanings but sometimes there is such a predominant meaning that supercedes the other psychologically.

In takes context in order to derive this secondary meaning sometimes, and that is why when I came in I said to myself "huh, it got good reviews after all".

The phrase was said twice. Once in the OP with one context, and once in the body of the OP within another context. If you cannot understand the concept of context then there is nothing I can do for you. You are so focused right now on proving that 'humbled' can mean 'thankful' that you aren't even reading what I'm trying to say, and you are automatically assuming that I'm trying to tell you wrong.

Unfortunately, this will be the fifth time I say this. "I was talking about the TITLE" I know it may sound confusing given such big words as 'talking' and 'TITLE'. (which in this case means the heading, and not the 'championship')

 

 

More lots of talking without saying much.

Read the OP before commenting on the title. Otherwise you miss the entire point.

Yes it is saying a lot of nothing because apparently you need a few hundred pages of extrapolation before you can understand for the seventh time that "I was talking about the title" The title threw me off and I was surprised to see that it was meant in the accepting way, because the titles context and the body's context is different. JESUS

You made a great quote the other day about picking the ten best devs being hard etc etc the best dev was the easiest to pick.

I thought that was really smart. Now I think you probably stole the quote from someone else.

 



Khuutra on 05 November 2008

I am saying that the title is a completely asinine thing to get up in arms about when the intent of the quote is so obviously different and that if the title was you original topic then you were inviting confusion in the first place. That's no one's fault but your own.



theprof00 on 05 November 2008

I'm not up in arms about the title I was just joking around and pointing out the use of the word as it is a big part of thread. It (the word humble) completely conveys the emotion and tone of the article and the developer. In the body it is different than the title.

The up in arms situation started when people started critisizing a harmless post by calling me an idiot.

Rule of thumb: You should know exactly what someones position is before you go and smack them upside the head. you should definitely not only read some of the posts or part of some posts.

It would be as if someones title for a thread was:
"Miyamoto partially involved in ___________"
and then the body saying something to the effect that Miyamoto is partial to a game. Two different uses and perhaps a play on words.
One of the definitions of 'partially' is: biased in some manner.

So, at first glance someone would say "oh he's making a slight difference in the game" whereas hes saying "I'm making a big difference in the game, _________, because it is one that I am biased to"

the bolded part you should definitely read because it is the exact kind of scenario we are talking about.

Someone would say something about it.