@DarthTall  :P If you want me to be notified of your comment, you need to keep my name in it. I only saw this because I returned to the comments section.

Anyway, no problem. Same to you.

Thanks for the follow up, Granpire.  Take it easy.

 @DarthTall  @Gelugon_baat Your name seems to have been included automatically on the first few posts. Sorry about that, if I'd noticed I'd have removed it.

At any rate, your name wasn't included in the last few comments, so you should be good. Unless someone replies to this message. :P

 @Gelugon_baat That's some serious hypocrisy...

And I have respected you, as much as possible. There's just no value to be found in anything you've said, which is simply, "That's your opinion, and I don't care." Your opinion is based on the disrespect of others, and that's not something I can respect.

 @Gelugon_baat Respect is subjective?

How about you start with this: it's being willing to accept the value of what others say.

 @Gelugon_baat 

I've told you of respected sources, Gelugon, several times over, but everything's either an opinion or a fact to you. You have no concept of repute or advice. If it doesn't please you, it's only opinion, and it's worthless.

You're only dealing in absolutes, and alienating every opinion except your own. You have no concept of respect, and the opinion or advice of others has no value to you, no matter how prestigious the source.

 @Biggs613  @Gelugon_baat That video expresses my thoughts so well...

 @Granpire  @Gelugon_baat I don't know why, but reading this blog debate between the two of you made me think of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfYJsQAhl0

Nothing personal, just came to mind, lol.

 @Gelugon_baat You're grasping at straws.

Rather than accept the societal norms about good or bad writing, you prefer to muck around with concrete definitions of them. The guidelines are not imposed on you, but you can either accept that you can improve or refuse the advice. You can't argue about what constitutes good writing, especially if you don't even provide a counter-point.

I said she was unesteemed, and you seemed to take offense to that somehow. I said that Yamamoto was either insane or joking - I didn't claim you said that, I was only assessing the situation. He does joke, on multiple occasions throughout the interview. That's a fact.

That's not conjecture. Conjecture stems from a lack of context (an unsubstantiated claim). Context provides the background for the quote, and the background here is that this was a very laid-back, jovial interviewee.

 @Gelugon_baat Keep living in your foggy and vague existence. If you won't even accept conventions as a basic guideline, then how do you even trust the (supposedly esteemed) Shaunna Privratsky? Why should she be trusted as a source for writing advice, when she is more than likely drawing from these reference books and what she has been taught? 

Regardless, it sounds to me like you just named her at random, and don't even have a quotation to prove her stance on context.

Are you really going to write a blog post about cultural in-jokes, then question the definition of a joke? Because if you are, then there really is no point arguing this with you. Either the man is insane, or you're just desperately trying to cling to your idea that nothing is defined. He is joking. There is no question about that, especially when he jokes that he would've made a first-person shooter with a main character named something like Snake.

The only real question here is whether he's joking about this specific statement about the writer's sleep level. THAT's something we don't know for sure, so you provide context and allow the reader to draw their own conclusions.

 @Gelugon_baat There's a reason why they're books of reference, rather than simply opinions. They explain the proper way to write at a very basic level. Ignoring books of reference is simply arrogant. Not absolutely everything is subjective. Focused writing is easier to understand, and restating the obvious is not interesting, no matter how you look at it, or where you read it from.

Aside from the fact that she's a single unesteemed writer, can you show me a source where she explicitly says this? Google isn't helping me here...

No, you should reconsider your suggestion: do you really think there's a possible chance that Yamamoto is being serious when he says, "Since then, the writer has started talking like the idiotic Badman, so we gave him an extended vacation." or, "When I was defeated by the three heroes, I wanted to throw the PSP against the wall, but I didn't want to pay for a new one, so I didn't do it." ?

At the bare minimum, you could say that he jokes a lot throughout the interview. Context is only about providing background to the reader, and you can't leave out that Yamamoto's tone is at least slightly silly. There's no way on earth that calling his statements jokes would be conjecture, unless you have no conception of a joke whatsoever. He's very, very obviously joking in numerous occasions, whether his claim about the game's writer is true or not.

 @Gelugon_baat 

Really? You answer my first point with yet more arrogance? 

My points about your writing were valid, but you prefer to respond by attacking the definitions of good writing rather than accepting the constructive criticism I gave you in the beginning.

If you really want to keep going down that road, there are various books called style guides that outline what strong and weak writing is. I'd point you to those if you wish to confirm what I've told you. Those are my measurable standards.

Humour me. What notable group of writers would actually say that context is pedantic?

As for claiming you're not looking to improve your writing, that just shows a lack of motivation. Why did you even write this?

 @Gelugon_baat  @DarthTall Your complacent attitude toward writing is disappointing. And arrogant.

That's why any credible writer would provide context. At least you linked to the article, but it's still a bit misleading.

I use words that serve their purpose. There's not really a more efficient way to say "blindly idealistic". Surely you can understand what those words mean, and surely you can't think of a better way to express the idea? Here's another florid term for you: Ad Hominem. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

I think you'd agree with the idea, given how often you're insulted here. But my implied abuse of vocabulary wouldn't negate the accuracy of my statements.

 @Gelugon_baat  @DarthTall And to clarify, I did enjoy the specific anecdotal stories you presented, like the Fox news report and the bit about Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman!/WDIDTDTML?.

Though, for clarity's sake, you could have mentioned that the interviewee was joking pretty much all throughout the article, so what he said was likely untrue. :P

 @Gelugon_baat  @Legolas_Katarn Matrix is leaking I see.

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 @Gelugon_baat No. Usually all I do is just type or hit reply to someone and then type. I copy pasted that link to my response to you in my blog and that worked.

 @Gelugon_baat  @robbiejones Also, is your profile pic from that Viper Henti game?

 @Gelugon_baat  @robbiejones So, do you not like gaming much anymore?

 @Gelugon_baat

 cause there all great games right...