and it does strike me as being a bit overly sensitive/protective.
Pot, meet kettle.
Referring to
The incident with him and shooting down my offer to Keranu I take it ? Well, I kinda stand by that. Here was an opportunity to meet Keranu in person -- someone I've known over a decade -- and save him at the very least on tow truck costs, and basically tggodfrey picked out 2 things that I said to demonstrate that I was not qualified and dangerous (
he did it in an indirect, non-confrontational manner, but it was clear) for having mentioned the compression unions, which if used, would only have been for getting him to a shop and saving him on the tow truck cost, OR getting the car to my house to drop it off for a couple of days if I made a deal with him to fully replace all brake lines myself, etc. Anyway, I don't wanna drag that out here again, but I was genuinely angered by that.
Anyhow, I'd say he thought that there was genuine anger when I said, "
So after a long hiatus, they gave us...what? Not one, but two reviews on two crappy-looking soccer games of all things ?? 
" but that's taking it literally and I think personally as well... It wasn't a serious comment for the most part (in terms of the appearance of anger). I thought it strange to essentially call me back into the thread over this though... Everybody else just stated their opinion, and I'm pretty sure vestcoat at least got the joke.
I could've said it differently to make it more clearer, like this, "
A year long absence and they come back with 2 lame-looking soccer games of all things !!! OUTRAGEOUS, I SAY! OUTRAGEOUS!!! C'mon guys!!! Oh boy, I sure hope their server can handle the web traffic that's headed their way when the fans find out about this!" Now maybe nobody else would've shared my amusement, but that was my angle. I dunno how many j/k (just kidding) disclaimers, "hehe"'s and smileys I would've had to add to prevent the ragging that occurred, but clearly one can't have a little fun around here without the joke being completely ruined with hurt feelings all around... Heh.
Same thing later, you came in and mentioned the Bikini game getting added, which provided yet another opportunity for some humor in that, yeah, I actually WOULD rather read a review on a Bikini game over a soccer one.
Mind you, I'm never gonna play that game either, wouldn't ever bother to download or buy it, but there would be better things to look at in that review.
I did actually read it and he's probably right about it sucking; the images look like pixelated messes and sounds like he forced himself to finish it (I guess NEC got what they wanted as far as peep-show, hentai, dating-sim type games with the PCFX, with hardware that was better suited for it...)
Anyway, there was ZERO anger on my part, it was sort of I'd say an angry fanboy caricature... Why would I be THAT genuinely upset about a gaming review website adding another review? There's no reason to get "angry" about that. As I said, I just saw an opportunity to poke fun at the fact that they came back with soccer games after a year long hiatus, nothing more. There is a strong dislike of the sports genre on my part that motivated it, but yeah, their intent is likely to review every NEC game ever made, so they gotta play through even all the stinkers of the library and what I think is the least popular genre. I'd save that genre for review till the very end myself, but whatever, it's not a genuine issue for me.
