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Comment Re:Occams Scalpel (Score 1) 962

Are you saying that the industry and gaming culture consider that acceptable behavior, or that a vocal minority of shitheads do? Extrapolating the behavior of the few and deciding the many think it's cool is of course, quite silly. Don't you think that suggesting the entire industry and all gamers have a problem is rather ad hom-y of you?

Comment Re:Pft (Score 1) 962

Do you think that because the average gamer is in the mid 30s that there are no vocal minority of immature, blubbering 12 year olds or those who act like them? Extremists and idiots always make more noise. And they either don't know or don't care (quite often both) if the majority doesn't share their opinions - if they did, we wouldn't be talking about them, would we? That's exactly WHY they do what they do.

Comment Re:TripAdvisor (Score 1) 424

It's certainly not the highest quality, but it's understandable. Coherent content; hardly butchering a language. You should probably get out more. I used to work with a guy who could reasonably clearly articulate words that were obviously English language, however I could never extract what exactly he was trying to say with those words. Obviously, he was an extreme example, but merely being non-grammatical or not spelling well doesn't mean you can't communicate.

Comment Re:Another child making unsupported claims (Score 1) 203

If you can't find a way around that but all the dummies can, maybe you aren't as smart as you think you are. Maybe they're not really as dumb as you think. I've seen a number of theoretically smart people turn out to be ultimately clueless. Even worse are those who can't do X, but decry anyone not well versed in their field as stupid. Think doctors who can grasp medical principles we couldn't dream of, but can't figure out that an Excel spreadsheet shared on a network makes for a crappy "database" for them all to be in and out of, constantly entering data. Some would declare them dumb, but it simply isn't their field. Looking down your nose at everyone else says a hell of a lot more about you than it does them.

Comment Re:This is dumb (Score 1) 192

"during time of war" is more broad than you would imagine. While the wikipedia article specifies the timeframe for the Gulf War I period of eligibility through 1995, I remember a brand new butterbar coming into our unit around the end of 1992, and we all made fun of him because he only had the "I made it through Basic!" medal.

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