Ok man, whatever. Just so you know: Oxford, Merriam-Webster, Collins, Thesaurus.com (and I'm guessing any other dictionary or thesaurus you would care to look at) all list "pompous" as a synonym for "pretentious" – among other words which seem to indicate pretty damn strongly that I'm using the word correctly.

That's an interesting example, but I think we're doomed to disagree on the last paragraph (well, except for the first sentence of it – and I can agree that if I called the author's work pretentious at some point, it's more accurate to say I was calling the author pretentious).

"For me to say that someone doesn't know how to use a word does not endorse the credibility of the author. I never even said that the author wasn't pretentious. All I've said is that you're using it incorrectly."

No, I disagree.

I disagree. No, pretentious doesn't mean "too artsy", you're right about that, but saying something is pretentious pretty much comes down to how something is perceived. Something being forcibly "artsy" can certainly be a warning sign of pretension.

"Complains about comments being disabled because of flaming commentors...

That's why we need more females represented in games? I don't see the connection at all. If I'm to assume you mean that this game/article would be more popular with a female audience, I still don't see how that's going to change anyone's opinion of it.

Or, perhaps, that sentence is the first example of many that come off as pretentious. I think you missed the point.

"I'm not going to pretend that this wasn't well written like some of the other commenters."

When someone uses the word "pretentious", why is there always someone saying they used the word wrong? What do you think it means, and why do you think he doesn't understand what it means?

I've had 4G go over 100Mbps, which yeah is still less than what you could get with really high speed lines, but for now I don't think wireless will have a hard time roughly keeping up with wired internet for data rates. I'm speculating wildly but I think the infrastructure for greater than 200Mbps fibre will be around…

Not necessarily, but it is supposed to be against the objectification of women and the other generally shallow crap that goes along with it.

That was unbelievably ironic, it was literally not even funny. How can you call yourself a feminist and yet be so easily hooked into what encapsulate a huge amount of the superficial shit feminism is supposed to be against?

Wow, Sergeant Johnson looks really good at the end of that trailer. Especially after the iffy looks he and other characters had in Halo Anniversary.

Yes, they are so bad. I don't know what the internet's obsession with shitty haiku is.

I'm glad we see eye to eye.

No no no, I have an improvement for your idea. People commentating sports should be able to do it for free, and should accept donations from people like an internet beggar.

Yes, you are.

Ah, people who didn't work for their money giving it away to people for not doing work.

So it's troubling to think that a game like Mass Effect or Dragon Age gives young players the idea that nobody will ever treat them differently once they find out they're anything other than straight, rather than give them the tools with which they can start to understand and accept the discrimination they may end up…