Comment on Bethesda Is Responding to Negative Reviews of Starfield on Steam
Adalast@lemmy.world 11 months agoWhile I don’t disagree with you in spirit, the use case for most instances of the expression are to dissuade the act of comparison at all because the two quantities are so dissimilar that the correlations are irrelevant.
It is an anti-intellectual statement because it presupposes that the person doing the comparing is not able to distinguish between meaningful comparisons and ones which are irrational but support their argument. It ranks up there with “big words” as far as I am concerned, saying more about the person they are being said by rather than the person they are being said to.
CaptnNMorgan@reddthat.com 11 months ago
So why not stand on that hill when it’s relevant?
Adalast@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I do. That is a side effect of always standing on the hill. I am there when it matters, but also when it doesn’t. Such is the curse of my superpowers.
Captain Pedant AWAAAAYYYY!
CaptnNMorgan@reddthat.com 11 months ago
This made me giggle like a little girl