Ah, the killer retort of the online argument. “If you don’t care about this thing I’m mad about for no reason, why are you explaining how I’m wrong about it?”
See, the answer is “because you whining about it on the Internet bothers me more than the thing you’re mad about”, which doesn’t make anybody involved look good. I didn’t say I was a dignified commenter, I said the console wars nonsense is too undignified even for me.
Says he doesn’t care, then goes on to engage in a conversation about it and writes an essay
Ah, the killer retort of the online argument. “If you don’t care about this thing I’m mad about for no reason, why are you explaining how I’m wrong about it?”
See, the answer is “because you whining about it on the Internet bothers me more than the thing you’re mad about”, which doesn’t make anybody involved look good. I didn’t say I was a dignified commenter, I said the console wars nonsense is too undignified even for me.