dsheinem wrote:Ack wrote:
Admittedly though, our threads go off topic or change entirely quite often. The Random Gaming Thoughts thread recently turned into a discussion on collecting comic book collections, the film thread has turned into discussions on television, and other threads have gone in wildly different directions.
Those threads are more random by design. "Random" is in the title of one.
Sure, but comic book collecting doesn't seem related to our thinking on video games, even if they are random thoughts about games.
dsheinem wrote: To add a qualifier in a thread like this just doesn't seem so evil a sin to me.
No argument here from me as it is certainly a closely related tangent in a mostly defined thread. But the qualifier WASN'T there in the necrobump. It would have been nice if he stated it in the
post that he caught so much flack for though, instead of several pages and several of his own posts
later.
Maybe, but people still immediately started replying by using his qualifier of personal exerpience. These ocurred on the next page:
AppleQueso wrote:In my experience Sega CD is a lot more reliable than its given credit for, especially given its age.
Jagosaurus wrote:I really enjoy the Jaguar. I don't own any post-acquisition Atari titles (homebrews or late titles such as Worms or Towers II) but even in its main life, plenty of great games. My favorites in order:
BogusMeatFactory wrote:For me a lot of the worst consoles ever were the early CD systems.
As for the critical response, I'm more disturbed by how harsh it was from the get go:
Retrodude wrote:And you call yourself a gamer? I'm sorry, but you just lost all credibility. Unless you're just trolling for the lulz. Are you?
This just came off as rude to me.
