Foopydoopydoo wrote...
Allan Schumacher wrote...
Jimmy saying that it's risky is (by my estimate) his hypothesis. I don't feel his comments are condescending or anything.
Yeah I agree. Pretentious fits better.
I figure when devs don't smother hope in its infancy there's always a better chance of it actually happening.
Dismissing it as being merely pretentious, however, is a rather adversarial position to take. He has his thoughts, motivated by whatever rationale and logic he sees fit.
I'll agree that many people likely overstate their own logical assessments (myself included), but I'd rather the forum be open to people sharing their thoughts, as long as it's done in a respectful manner. If you feel his thoughts are pretentious, you're always equipped with the ability to not bother reading his posts.
I am reminded somewhat by reading some bizarre topics on twitter, where one person found another person's twitter remarks aggravating. For myself, I saw it more as "instead of getting into a fight about it, why don't you just stop following said person on twitter?"
There's a lot of things from a lot of posters on this board where I can recognize that they are filling in some of the gaps of things that they don't even recognize is there, when a lot of qualitative judgments are made. If we were to require posters to know all about the aspects of what they were discussing, it'd be a pretty blank board however.
As long as one is respectful, and open to the idea that there may be gaps in their assessment, however, I don't really think it's pretentiousness.
If I was more of a marketing guru (I'm definitely not), I'd be more able to talk with people about some of the pros and cons of various marketing decisions. And to be clear, I'm not saying whether or not our decisions for not saying much at this time are or are not entirely based on marketing and so forth.