Some People Need To Learn To Calm Down.
So this guy comments on my “Best of 2010” post, telling me how stupid, inane and retarded both my choices and my style of writing are. How no game I like is actually any good and I should consider myself a moron for even considering liking it. I honestly don’t know why I’m writing this except it makes me feel better about the matter. So here goes.
First of all, I am perfectly capable of writing well if the occasion calls for it. Sometimes, I write loosely. Not every situation calls for serious and in-depth detail. If I want to wrap up the year in a few sentences, that’s exactly what I’m going to do. Or did the phrase “Brevity is the soul of wit” never cross the vacuous orbs you call your eyes?
Second of all, if I were to do a serious review of something, I’ll bloody well put “Review” in the title. Let’s not mince words. While we’re discussing words, ‘gameplay’ is of course a meaningless term thrown around more often that sense would dictate, but it has entered the lexicon as a very general term for the controls and features of a game. Rather than construct lofty and pretentious wording about the games in question, I choose to generalize because to most people in the world, that makes perfect sense. Maybe in your world, everyone speaks with the eloquence of a English Literature professor and has tea and crumpets every afternoon in the parlour. But sadly, everyone else has to live in reality, where not everything is perfect, and sometimes people generalize things to get their point across easier.
Third, and most importantly, who do you think you are? You claim to love gaming, yet you apparently hate every game, decrying it as some catastrophe against common decency and sensibility, as if nothing is worthy of your high standards. Games exist for people to have fun. Might the story be worthy of a Pulitzer? Definitely not. Are the controls always perfect? No. Are some games so easy that a child could complete them? Definitely. But what ultimately matters is one very simple question: Did you have fun? But I suppose someone who who finds fault with everything without bothering to simply take it at face value doesn’t have fun. You merely subsist on the smug self-satisfaction you get from callously insulting the work of people who merely want to put content out there for people to enjoy.
*deep breath* Okay, I’m done.
Some People Need To Learn To Calm Down.
So this guy comments on my “Best of 2010” post, telling me how stupid, inane and retarded both my choices and my style of writing are. How no game I like is actually any good and I should consider myself a moron for even considering liking it. I honestly don’t know why I’m writing this except it makes me feel better about the matter. So here goes.
First of all, I am perfectly capable of writing well if the occasion calls for it. Sometimes, I write loosely. Not every situation calls for serious and in-depth detail. If I want to wrap up the year in a few sentences, that’s exactly what I’m going to do. Or did the phrase “Brevity is the soul of wit” never cross the vacuous orbs you call your eyes?
Second of all, if I were to do a serious review of something, I’ll bloody well put “Review” in the title. Let’s not mince words. While we’re discussing words, ‘gameplay’ is of course a meaningless term thrown around more often that sense would dictate, but it has entered the lexicon as a very general term for the controls and features of a game. Rather than construct lofty and pretentious wording about the games in question, I choose to generalize because to most people in the world, that makes perfect sense. Maybe in your world, everyone speaks with the eloquence of a English Literature professor and has tea and crumpets every afternoon in the parlour. But sadly, everyone else has to live in reality, where not everything is perfect, and sometimes people generalize things to get their point across easier.
Third, and most importantly, who do you think you are? You claim to love gaming, yet you apparently hate every game, decrying it as some catastrophe against common decency and sensibility, as if nothing is worthy of your high standards. Games exist for people to have fun. Might the story be worthy of a Pulitzer? Definitely not. Are the controls always perfect? No. Are some games so easy that a child could complete them? Definitely. But what ultimately matters is one very simple question: Did you have fun? But I suppose someone who who finds fault with everything without bothering to simply take it at face value doesn’t have fun. You merely subsist on the smug self-satisfaction you get from callously insulting the work of people who merely want to put content out there for people to enjoy.
*deep breath* Okay, I’m done.
Posted 1 year ago Notes
