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Originally Posted by pfreivald
To be perfectly clear, I am intentionally saying that you are ignorant on the topic of game design and that this ignorance is feeding into your argument in ways it doesn't appear you are aware of. It also appears to be coupled with an equally large ignorance on metareading and reading for understanding. That's not an insult -- not even a teeny, tiny, itsy bitsy bit of one -- and if you take offense to it I have some very bad news for you: you, me, and everyone else on this planet are profoundly ignorant about just about everything.
Telling you that you appear to be ignorant on any given topic is not a slight, any more than telling me that I am ignorant on the topics of biology, figure skating, baseball, programming, or any number of a large variety of topics I have never troubled myself to learn much about would be a slight. Given the infinite number of topics one can study, there is nothing whatsoever wrong with being ignorant on a great many of them.
There is, however, something wrong with simultaneously being ignorant on a topic and speaking authoritatively about that topic.
I had hoped that instead of taking offense, you might have taken a step back and said, "wow, maybe I don't know as much about this as I thought I did." Pride has a bitter taste, but eating some once in a while is good for all of us.
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I think why he keeps correcting you is because you are wrong, stating "you are ignorant, so stop arguing" isn't really a valid way to try ending this.
Myself and I'm sure many others on these forums hold Tristans words and thoughts in very high regard on the topics currently being discussed, and from a moral ground I'd probably side with the one who's not insulting anyone (just on the moral ground). As you're essentially telling a baseball player who's been in the league for awhile he doesn't understand baseball in the slightest and should be okay with it.