This kind of event has been a regular occurrence where I live for years. I might say you’re fortunate to have your assumptions, and while I may be false to assume it is like my situation as elsewhere, just as you two do for yours, playing devil’s advocate, I still feel safer with my assumption. Admittedly my bias, I do not mean to put you on defensive, just explain my position.

I was not intentionally insulting his intelligence, but educating him on the proper way to argue. For whatever reason I was struck by his comment enough to respond, but hardly a test of masculinity.

I am glad you are an educated parent who know many others. Kudos. A majority of the parents I know are blissfully ignorant. So the point stands.

I believe what you saw as hypocrisy was my way of challenging him to argue fairly. I see it as a challenge for listening/reading more than challenging his intelligence. I told him to look in the mirror BECAUSE the first thing he did was attack the speaker. I wished to illustrate how ineffective that was in both communication and open debate.

@mirtzig – I do apologize if you took personal insult, and also that I singled you out when I clearly applied crtiticsms. I do hope you were able to calm yourself enough to see what I was saying. I hope in this effort truly we may show this was not some battle of masculine pride.

yes because this is clearly a game any good parent would rush out to buy for their children.

Straw man is not applicable. Please reread your definition since you so kindly provided it, and try the analysis again.

Logic: the glorious refuge of the .edu page creators, and the eternal shame of the .edu page parroters :(

ps Someone please email the Witch-King of Angmar and ask him if he’s mad at me – he doesn’t reply to any of mine.

I’ve been in GameStop many a times (too much my hubby says for God sakes they know my name) and there are plenty of soccer mom’s and non-gamers who ask is this good, is this not and can I play a demo. People are not stupid and they are not going to waste 50 bucks on a brand new game for something that is going to blow. Especially in this day and age. Hell hardcore gamers go into GameStop and have long as* conversations about what games are good and what is not. I’ve seen people in line with a sorry game and hard core people come up to them and say I wouldn’t do that if I was you. If your looking for a shooter go this way not this way. The mechanics are all off. Save your dry wall.

anonranreader and mirtzig why don’t you both just compare the size of your units and move on. Really. I find it funny anonranreader your upset or commenting about mirtzig attacking someone’s intelligence and you do the EXACT same thing. Doesn’t that make you a hypocrite no matter how eloquent you state it? Just wondering.

Damn these amateurish, idiotic writers and reviewers getting media attention for questioning insosequential things that people already know way better than they do.

There was also not statement of “let’s go out immediately and get this!” nor was it, from my understanding the author’s intention to imply that. Merely, that upon seeing this ad, it would be at the back of minds of viewers for future reference. Everyone saw what the ad campaign did for Avatar, and you wonder why it grossed as much as it did…

I’d challenge you to act your age, but again you may misinterpret. You have the impulsive and judgementality nature of an adolescent, that is what I implied by my comment. And again you come out with insulting comments instead of discussing the topic at hand. I will direct you to ad hominem, an argumentative logical fallacy where you attack the speaker as opposed to the subject followed by straw man arguments to state your case. Please refer: http://www.csun.edu/~dgw61315/fallacies.html#Argumentum%20ad%20hominem. Come back when you are less hormonal.

Check your stats first.

Out of the estimated 106 MILLION viewers for this year’s Bowl:
64% were male
48% were between the ages of 18-44
http://www.hozinc.com/fbdemo.html

Now the gamers demographic(As provided by The Entertainment Software Association):
68% of all American households game
60% male
49% are 18-49
Average age is 35
http://www.theesa.com/facts/index.asp

That means there were around 52-64 MILLION people, who knew exactly what was going on in the commercial. Those numbers seem to line up pretty good to me.

It’s common sense…How can anyone write something so stupid? Football fans ARE NOT video game fans?!?! Is that the dumbest thing ever written?

Excuse me now, I have to go quit this site as I only signed up to blast you. Idiot.

CHECK. YOUR. FACTS.

Also McDonalds’ pulls the ole “bait and switch” and gets away with it because in the end, 99 percent of people only care about the taste. We eat fast-food because its delicious (to most of us) and because it takes less than 5 minutes to put food in our mouths. My Big Mac could look like it has been stepped on, but if it tastes like a Big Mac…then baby I’m in!

When it comes to senses, food is mostly about Taste….and video games are 99 percent about what we SEE! and that’s why comparing what McDonalds’ does in their adds and what EA did in their SB add sounds like a BS excuse to me! If McDonalds’ promised me my Big Mac was now going to taste like heaven (a filet mignon if you will) and it turned out tasting like cat food (ode to District 9) I would be pissed!

There is no insinuation that they go out and buy a new system based upon viewing this commercial. In no way was that inference made. Rather asinine to even suggest logically, no?

RYC@mirtzig: Seriously dude, are you even paying attention? Talking about the non-gamer population, how many non-gamers are going to do the research to look on youtube or look up reviews. Odds are, if they’re not gamers, they’re not savy enough to know where or how to find information on them either. I mean that rather inanely, obviously many people have mastered google, or understand the basic market of a “GAMESTOP”. But how would it even enter their mind to read a review of a “game” when the concept to begin with is foreign to them? Would you go and look up a review of “Scrabble” because you heard it was a good game? Maybe “Battleship” they say it’s classic! The non-gamers are out of the loop, and the point is odds are, that concept does not even enter their mind, sir.

But you come off so insulting, I suggest you take a look in the mirror before attacking someone’s intelligence. You sound 15. It would help if you paid attention to what was being said before you rushed to explain the solution, as then you would notice you kind of missed the point. At least in my opinion.

Can you believe it? Let’s start a petition to stop misleading picturepages, angry superbowl-ad man, and teach these sneaky geniuses a lesson!

To horrorgasm: Hang on just a second, now, my transformers can…oh, what in the…DAMMIT! >:( LAWSUIT CITY, HERE I COME