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Going back earlier in the thread to the "underdog" things, if Gameponders had said things like, "I like rooting for the underdogs, and I like it when other people do, too", that would have been ... less insane than, "It sure is a profound realization that no one at this board, a board that has no Britney Spears fans, defends her when she's insulted."

I think the thing about those people is that they must not have understood their own motivations, because if they did they could have explained it more clearly like that. Since they don't understand their own motivations, it makes me believe they just picked up that trait second hand and unexamined.

Also, if they understood their own motivations, they would have know it's not normal to be so pathologically defensive. Not that "not normal" means "wrong", but if you know it's not normal you wouldn't consider it a shock to find that other people aren't like that, and, again, it would help with communicating your perspective with other people.

Uh, neither, I guess.

People from the Gamepond actually said things like, "It sure is a profound realization that no one at this board, a board that has no Britney Spears fans, defends her when she's insulted." (If you knew that people actually said that, I think what I wrote would have been less ambiguous)

The implication seemed to be that the speaker thought that people should defend things, regardless of what those people thought of them. They said it about other things, too. They were trying to cultivate an environment in which you couldn't say anything bad about any videogames or videogame systems (maybe even videogame websites). So, even though I am not a fan of the 3DO, it's like they expected me to defend it if someone said it wasn't a good system.

One thing that annoys me about people like that isn't just that they say things that are cliches, but that they ignore everything you say and make posts as though there's no context.

Like, okay, someone doesn't like Arc 4, whatever. But couldn't they at least reply to something you said about it? If they disagree with what you said, couldn't they at least acknowledge and rebut it, instead of saying something that could be said in any situation, and even if you had said nothing?

I can't give a good example of what I mean, since I never played any of the Arc games, but hypothetically maybe something like, "You liked the characters in Arc 4, like Maru and Bebedora, but I played the earlier Arc games, and those oddball characters are out of place in the series, and their wackiness is a sign that they were desperate for new ideas to keep the series going."

Again, I have no idea if that would be a viable opinion [since I never played any of the Arc games myself], but it kind of says the same thing you paraphrased, but was more specific so it could be discussed, and it acknowledges that you had already said things about the game that could kick off a discussion.