@New FormsThat you originally came here to provide a "360/PS3 centric voice" on Negative World. That was years ago, of course. Now that's changed to providing a 360/iOS centric voice. Zero told you that wasn't really welcome here, yet you stayed. I think the hope was that you would eventually talk more about Nintendo proper because hell, this is what the board is all about. But you've kept on only ever talking about non-Nintendo topics.
Non-Nintendo topics are fine on the board, of course, but I think there is an understanding that what brings us all here is Nintendo. And when Grant praises the Dreamcast, it's cool because he's Grant: he loves fighters, he's into handhelds to an almost comical degree, and you can always count on him to talk about the latest 3DS game he's played. You want to talk seriously about Nintendo handhelds? He can provide that for you.
When you latch on to his mentioning of the Dreamcast, though, I just don't see it the same way. You frequently latch on to these off-topic posts because it's really all you have any hands-on knowledge of. You're careful enough to not start a thousand off-topic threads yourself, and I appreciate that, but you do deviate a lot of Nintendo threads when you piggyback on other people's posts, and that's how a thread ostensibly about Skyward Sword, for instance, suddenly has whole pages of back and forth solely about the merits of Skyrim. That's how the conversation in a thread about Nintendo's digital distribution subtly shifts to "hey, who goes to stores anymore, anyway?".
And unlike everyone else on this forum, you can't be counted on to bring a serious perspective specifically about Nintendo's games, business strategies, etc. You can only ever discuss Nintendo in a much broader context, which I guess could be fine if you weren't, probably without even realizing it, changing the topic every time you do so. In this thread for instance, people were specifically discussing Nintendo's plans. You came in, latched on to Xbob's post and shifted the conversation to how you don't for entertainment at stores anymore (which has no real bearing on the conversation) and went on to talk broadly about how iTunes has disrupted the market. Which is a fine point, or would be, if we didn't already all know about it and if it wasn't already kinda one of the premises of the topic, that Nintendo needs to stake its claim in this new market. We're all talking about one thing, and there you go talking about how wonderfully Apple is doing, which we all know.
And when I bring back the topic on what Nintendo is doing, you literally have nothing to answer.
So yeah, we have a history and I thought you were a douche on IGN, but I find you irritating for entirely current reasons. In your own way, you're a part of IGN that followed us here and that I personally wanted to get away from. We wanted to get away from the circular conversations about Nintendo being kiddy or behind the times, and while you're not overtly trolling like the people on IGN, you do frequently bring us back to these circular arguments in your own fashion. We mention same-room multiplayer fun and we (apparently, I) have to read about how you find that kind of multiplayer outdated because you don't have friends over to play games anymore; we mention how Wii is a great party machine and you mention how all you really need is Rock Band on the 360, how it's all the rage when you have people over; we talk about liking meaty games on the 3DS, and you go on about how adults playing dedicated handhelds in public look like losers.
That's the story.
I know your MO, I know your response will be patronizing and won't address anything I said, I know the point will fly right over your head if you even bother to read and understand this post. In other words, I know you succeeded in making me waste my time once again. But whatever. Let the cycle continue.
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