Wait, what was the first article in this chain of events?

Yep, I look through all of my unread Kotaku headlines every couple of days, reading articles that interest me, and I basically have no idea what the fuck this is about.

Ugh.

How about: "I wouldn't attend a convention called 'African-American-Gamers-Con' because it sounds like it's a convention intended for African-American gamers to attend and not other gamers".

You realise you are everything you claim to be against, right? You have actively looked for bigotry when it isn't there, because you're reading what you want to read – you are so self-righteous about being "tolerant" that you presume others are lowly bigots when they've done nothing to suggest that.

You go ahead and laugh, sad truth is youll never realize how much you discriminate.

Good god, I think you might be the same guy I replied to before but there's so many people saying the same idiotic thing here I can't be sure.

That's nice. But this con is not aimed at you.

Exactly. The staff clearly agreed so there's no debate about it.

No, because in that context "Asian" refers to a style of food not a race.

I thought they said they dumbed down the graphics in this thing to make it look like a small studio had made it. It looks pretty damn good to me.

I don't think Nintendo could have had a much better response. To me petitioning for something like this is a little bit disrespectful really.

To me, like someone else said, it looks like there was no contact between Stewart's car and Ward's car in the beginning – therefore there is no reason for Stewart to be mad at Ward.

Not exactly, I probably shouldn't have worded what I said that way, but I use synonyms as indicators of contexts where a word can be correctly used. The definition can only give you so much. You'll notice a lot of definitions use synonyms to more easily convey the actual definition.

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.

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