That's silly. Are we not allowed to criticize politicians unless we've been elected? Can we not say a meal is bad unless we're chefs? I've never driven under the influence, does that mean I can't criticize the drunk that crashed into the light pole outside my house?
Politicians: lol! of course not! Just give us your money!
Well, you see, I'm in mourning. My beloved wife of 17 years went to the doctor for procedure to remove a hangnail, but instead the doctor cut her into 148 pieces and DID NOT remove the hangnail. Some might call that murder, some might call that malpractice, but not me. I've never removed a hangnail so I can't criticize. After all, we are only ever allowed to criticize people when we know we can do their job better than they can no matter what they might do.
Yeah, just don't pretend you can do better if you have no ideas yourself.
No. That's a
You clearly have a powerful and creative imagination. You, at one point, at least, cared about this game, so much that you are here spending your time wishing it would be better.
Well, no. It's not a strawman. It's an analogy. It directly addressed your argument, such as it was. To be a strawman, it would have to address an argument you had not made. And it's definitely not whataboutism. That would be bringing up something completely unrelated to duck the original point, i.e. my idiot uncle bringing up Qanon or Hillary's emails every time Trump's latest scandal comes on the news.
Years ago when I discovered H-games (I was VERY late to the party) I decided to try my hand at writing one -- not coding, just writing. It was a simple story (best to start simple for your first stab at anything) about a rich asshole who was magically cursed to very slowly transform into an airheaded bimbo. It would have started out mostly railroad but with more and more choice as you went so exactly what sort of bimbo you wound up as was up to you, as was your final state. It was going really well and I had maybe 45% done, and then I lost it all in a hard drive crash (my own faulty for not backing it up, I'm the first to admit) and I lost the ambition to do it. Since then I've occasionally been bitten by the bug and have done outlines and such, but I failed for the same reason that it takes me four to six months to write a chapter in one of my Lit stories: I have (literally) crippling depression and PTSD, which means that the days I can do anything productive are few and far between. I'm very proud of what I write (mostly because I write strictly for myself and don't give a damn if anyone else likes it or not) but my writing is SLOW.
Exactly my feelings as well. The CIA has been knee deep in all sorts of scandalous behavior and debauchery since its inception. They've done things like recording sex tapes to be used as blackmail, pushing drugs to pay for their operations, to even supplying terrorists with weapons to fight wars for them. The idea that an agent they hand picked for this dangerous assignment would be squeamish about being provocative and sexual to play the part is silly. Her colleagues that she's so concerned about aren't your everyday office drones, they're people involved in an international spy operation who have been involved in similar things or worse. I get that Crush is trying to build some kind of tension that plays off shame and sexuality because otherwise the player's actions carry less weight, but it doesn't really make sense in this context here.
Do you just not remember what you said or did yesterday? You absolutely made a strawman argument. You equated criticism of a game developer with criticism of drunk drivers, who are obviously typically socially indefensible pariahs. These are not the same thing and appealing to an extreme opposite is whataboutism, like you didn't get a free game is the same as the developer endangering your life.
So, you're a creative. That's great! But I can't find your stories searching for "SixtyMinuteMan". Can you post a link / URL?
More power to you for doing what you love to do. I'm sure you have made a lot of people happy / with a happy ending!
So it's jealousy tinged with your projecting self-humiliation. That's fucking sad and I think you should take a look at yourself before criticizing others.
Looking at your replies to me and to Senor Smut, you don't seem very genuine. Seems like you're arguing for the sake of arguing. And life's too short.
no, we are just ruining his business model little by little with our's conversations and he feels pressure because some suckers may read it here and stop obidiently pay
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh, my ribs. Run on, little troll. Go back to his Discord where people appreciate being taken for a ride.
That person won't ever give up, sadly. They will say that they will constantly fall on any available nearby sword for the sake of defending creators' right to create, even though nobody is stopping anyone from creating. Additionally, the amount of money gained or lost due to comments on these board seems to be negligible at best, and so it's an entirely pointless crusade. Still, this must be Serious Business to someone, considering the historical and current amount of panic in response to board posts. I shrug at it all. I suggest that the people who need help should get help, but of course that is entirely up to them. There are hotlines for that sort of thing and it's not my job to google it for them (and Denial means they need to do it, not me).
A couple of versions ago - there was training, conditioning, backstory that showed the spy's initial training and career in intelligence...
Thanks for the link, I didn't find it before. I'm not into gay male sex stories so I won't be reading them but, whether you believe it or not, I do respect anyone who creates because I think that's far more difficult than just criticizing.
OK. In bold yellow text to highlight the microaggression you have suffered.
You guys really need to find something better to squander your time on rather than arguing with someone who gets paid to argue with you. What happens here is nothing new; milking is how they survive, and the figure on Patreon.com is never as simple as it looks; we actually don't know what happens in dev's private bank account or how they manipulate it. Anyway, you don't complain a casino game is unfair; you don't complain a dark market dealer doesn't keep word. Those are not expectations for them; grab whatever they offer and find others, such as spending time on other games here, or go to Steam to support those studios take what they do seriously. Anyway, don't rely on one or two developers here, TBO, many of them are not reliable, and at the end of the day, liability shouldn't be an expectation for them, you are luck if they keep working at all.
I wanted to add also the exact type of logical fallacy that you correctly cited: It is called "Appeal to accomplishment" and is technically a type of Genetic Fallacy (fallacies of irrelevancy that reject a statement based on the source instead of the statement itself). One nice example of it:
or:
Yet, this fallacy gets a great deal of mileage around here from people who rely entirely upon it. There's nothing new about that. There are recorded occasions of rejecting it from as far back as 1791, and I wouldn't be surprised to find rejections of it earlier than that.
