The date on the link Tanoomba posted
10-12-2014
Today's date
10-5-2015
I rest my case. Its like some weird switch got flipped in his head and he has been incapable of just admitting he is wrong for a year now. Its not stubborness, he's just lost his fucking mind on this issue.
To his position on the subject
In that post from a year ago, he claims this
"Thunderf00t starts off by saying "This is how she describes Hitman: Absolution". This is already objectively a misrepresentation, if not an outright lie. She was not talking about Hitman but about several games that put you in situations where you can kill sexualized female characters."
His argument is "Because she was talking about other games in a 30 minute video, she wasn't REALLY talking about Hitman.
This is a form of reverse sharpshooter fallacy, where he's pointing to all the cases where she doesn't talk about Hitman to rebut the claim she also talked about Hitman. This is completely ignoring the actual point Thunderfoot was making in order to engage in a sophistry laden defense of his sweaty fart producing machine.
Just because she was also talking about other games, doesn't mean she didn't talk about Hitman, and just because she was addressing broader concerns in the industry from her point of view, does not mean she didn't intentionally misrepresent Hitman. In fact, the point Thunderfoot, and others, are making is that she misrepresented Hitman, and she is also misrepresenting the other games, but the Hitman case is the most egregious, and thus makes a good example case for how she is being dishonest in her misrepresentation.
Tanoomba needs to ignore this fact, has to ignore it. So much so that he literally has created a blind spot in his vision where HE CANNOT EVEN SEE IT.
Let's look at this statement by Tanoomba
"Anita is NOT saying Hitman is telling gamers "Hey, kill these strippers"."
She explicitly says that this is what Hitman is doing. This is a good example of how he simply filters out information he doesn't agree with to attempt to cling to his tenuous and unfounded, false worldview on this subject.
Here's the quote by her explicitly stating this
"Players are meant to derive a perverse pleasure from desecrating the bodies of unsuspecting virtual female characters. "
"Players are meant"
We're going to get super pedantic here to demonstrate how pedantic Tanoomba is
"Are" is defined as
Word Origin
verb
1.
present indicative plural and 2nd person singular of be.
The definition of "be" relavent to this discussion is defined as
"(used as a copula to introduce or form interrogative or imperative sentences):
Is that right? Be quiet! Don't be facetious."
The sentence uses the imperative present indicative plural of "be" to indicate a statement of imperative action, aka literally this indicates compulsion on the actions of the subject of the term "are", which is the "Players"
"meant" is defined as
verb
1.
simple past tense and past participle of mean.
"mean" is defined as
verb (used with object), meant, meaning.
1.
to have in mind as one's purpose or intention; intend:
I meant to compliment you on your work.
Synonyms: contemplate.
2.
to intend for a particular purpose, destination, etc.:
They were meant for each other.
Synonyms: destine, foreordain.
3.
to intend to express or indicate:
What do you mean by "liberal"?
4.
to have as its sense or signification; signify:
The word "freedom" means many things to many people.
Synonyms: denote, indicate; import, imply, connote.
5.
to bring, cause, or produce as a result:
This bonus means that we can take a trip to Florida.
6.
to have (certain intentions) toward a person:
He didn't mean you any harm.
Virtually every single one of these definitions includes a imperative action as their object, in this case the object is "derive a perverse pleasure from desecrating the bodies of unsuspecting virtual female characters"
There is literally no universe of the English language where the statement, which Tanoomba himself has quoted, is not interpreted as an imperative action being compelled upon the players by the game designers.
This is definitional and completely unrefutable by Tanoomba.
This demonstrates that Thunderfoot's interpretation of her statement is correct, that Tanoomba is wrong, and that Tanoomba's LITERAL YEAR LONG OBSESSION ON THIS SUBJECT is a serious sign that he is fucking insane and simply cannot accept that he was wrong on this subject.
He goes on to engage in essentially "I'm rubber you're glue" arguments, where he accuses Thunderfoot of doing what Sarkeesian actually did, aka cherry picking the gameplay elements that support his position, declaring that Thunderfoot's case is "full of holes" as a result. The reality is that Thunderfoot was demonstrating only that Sarkeesian was cherry picking the data set she wanted to use to justify her case, by showing alternative data sets she ignored. Thunderfoot's video is a REACTION to her video. She is the one who set the framework of the debate, therefore accusing Thunderfoot of "ignoring" her data set, when he was actively pointing to the holes in her data set, is the height of asininity.
Tanoomba, I hope you enjoy the (hopefully) permanent ban coming your way soon, because you have fucking earned it. Earned it so hard, you cowardly, immature, pathetic, ignoramus moron cuck.
