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Why should we refrain from personal attacks on defenders of the ending?


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majormajormmajor

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It bothers me how intellectually dishonest most conversations about the ending are in most places.

The people who hate the ending are attacking the ending itself, the writing of it, it's messages, etc. etc.

You get articles like that Gamefront one linked to above which point-for-point explain what was wrong with the ending and why they hate it.

I don't really see people with any kind of volume making attacks against people who like the ending, like "If you like this ending clearly you are an idiot" or anything. I'm not seeing those kinds of articles, I'm not seeing people post giant rants blaming fans for liking the ending.

Yet, conversely, you have articles like the one Colin Moriarty at IGN or Ben Kuchera at PA Report have done, essentially attacking people who hate the ending and questioning them personally. Instead of trying to defend the ending on its own merits, they resort to basically insults,  calling people entitled whiners who don't understand real sci-fi and just want happy endings with ice cream and cake.

This is what this PA comic is doing too, and it's dishonest and lazy. Gabe's newspost earlier this week tried to address people's actual  criticisms with the ending, but it was still full of attacking the people, not the argument.

I think it's pretty telling when one side is critical of the material, and the other side is critical of the people.

Modifié par majormajormmajor, 17 mars 2012 - 10:38 .


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Bryan Johnson

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Just keep in mind the ToS.

Personal attacks will not be tolerated on this forum.

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Bryan Johnson

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AlexXIV wrote...

Bryan Johnson wrote...

Just keep in mind the ToS.

Personal attacks will not be tolerated on this forum.

From both sides or just from us? Because then you can start going through threads looking for the word 'whiner'.


Definitely both, there is a lot of posts moving through this forum so it is hard to keep up with them all (especially at this hour). When a topic has the words "Personal Attacks" it is pretty hard to ignore. The debate currently is trending such of civil argument vs arbitrary which is acceptable.


Edit: minor spelling

Modifié par Bryan Johnson, 17 mars 2012 - 11:08 .