Fiz_The_Toaster said:
Abandon4093 said:
So your argument for nostalgia in popular medium is that it isn't as bad as nostalgia in politics.... could you have picked two things that relate to each other less?
So, by your logic. I argue that companies churning out the same basic game every 2 years (ala CoD) isn't as bad as someone churning out the same bad rhetoric about immigrants and the youth of today.
I like this logical fallacy thing, I might just use it to win my arguments.
/sarcasm
No Bob. When we talk about nostalgia and your insufferable radiating of it on this website, we're talking about games and maybe films. We're not talking about politics, so drawing a parallel to it and linking it by a theme to shift the focus off what we're talking about isn't going to cut it.
Did you honestly think anyone here was actually going to let you shimmy off topic so much? I'm actually pretty shocked Bob.
The entire time he went off his political tangent I was wondering what this had to do with nostalgia in regards to geekdom, and to my surprise it didn't. <== last bit sarcasm. Honestly, I just rolled my eyes at his little political tangent, even though it had some points -like two- and I don't see how politics even relates to our nostalgia
in movies and games. I must be an idiot, but I don't.
I think the last half should've been a part two of nostalgia, one part being movies and games, and the second part being politics and culture, not both of them together. Yes, one isn't as world shattering as the other, but really, we know that, we're not idiots, and I think it's a bit ridiculous to compare the two like that.
Yea, this was a really stupid episode.
'Nostalgia in gaming isn't that bad.... at-least it's not like I'm, trying to make us all live in some crazy idealised 50's fauxtopia.'
How the fuck did he jump from one to the other? It's quite possibly the dumbest thing I've ever seen Bob do.
Yes Bob, we're not morons. We understand that in the grand scheme of things gaming isn't really as important as who we elect to run things. No one ever insinuated that it was, so I don't quite see why it was worth bringing it up.
His entire show is built on the premise of frivolity. All he talks about is comics, films and games. That's what we're here for, we want to talk about comics, films and games. (not necessarily in that order.)
It's nice when he grounds some of that information in real world history or the political attitudes towards [insert frivolity here]. But making the argument that we really shouldn't complain about X because Y, which has nothing to do with X mind you, is much worse.
It's just a stupid logical fallacy he threw in because he really doesn't have anything else to say on the subject.
I'm sorry for the rant, but this episode actually felt insulting. To think he actually expected us to swallow that at face value. Like he was telling anybody anything they didn't already know.