The Nothing Thread (aka How To Survive The No Internet Apocalypse)

[SmoothPancakes]

No... I get tired of him making idiotic statements. And then, when you call him on those statements, he changes his original argument.

Case in point, he said "in the real world a team would spike the ball or call a time out and think about a play" so I give him examples of two coaches that would not spike the ball or call a timeout.

So instead of walking away or conceding his original point, he changes his argument to "what real world coaches would do is pointless when the video game has a larger than 50% success rate on any play".

So which is it? Are we going to compare the game to real life or are we going to go back to his favorite old argument that the game is "just a toy"?

Yep. All of us have to deal with that crap every day. Says one thing, we call him on it, his argument instantly changes to something else but still tries to use both arguments.


Argument #1

in the real world a team would spike the ball or call a time out and think about a play.

Argument #2

How much you know about real world football is somewhat pointless here. What real world coaches would do is pointless (because it's a toy)

Starts off calling it cheese because in the real world (his fantasy world more like it), a team would spike the ball or call a timeout in that situation. Then he comes back later and it has changed to suddenly, "what real world coaches would do doesn't matter because it's a toy."

So which one is it? Either it's cheese because it's not what you feel/think real world coaches would do. Or it's not cheese because regardless of what real world coaches would or wouldn't do, it doesn't matter because it's a toy. You can pick one argument and only one, so decide. You can't use both and sit there flip flopping back and forth between them depending on which one better fits the discussion at the time.