Comrade_Beric said:
Personally, I watched the show religiously every week when they were here and I did follow them to Youtube, but I got massively turned off of the show when James hijacked two whole episodes to talk about how he used to play games so much that he didn't function as a human being. The humor was gone, the intelligence was gone, the whole show had become a forum for James to lecture us about how terrible games had been for him... I have not watched a single episode since. What about you guys? Are you still watching the show or did you lose interest?
Let's play "Spot the Fallacy."
James made a single two-part episode in which he talked about game addiction, something with which he has had extensive personal experience and something that he did not feel he could address without describing those experiences. This episode represents a COMPLETELY unique event in the show's history, as its style and tone were not used
at all prior to that episode and have not been used since. However, based on this single, isolated incident of something you didn't like - an incident you had no reason to believe would ever recur - rather than continuing to follow the show "religiously," you assumed that all ensuing episodes would thematically identical to the one you didn't like and that the show therefore would not be worth watching, despite there being absolutely no evidence
whatsoever to justify that assumption.
Now, I may not have any particular schooling in informal logic, but it seems to me that the term "hasty generalization" doesn't even
begin to describe the thought process (or, apparently, total lack thereof) that led to your current situation.