Sorry, Black Mage. I tried to make it pretty clear that I posted those images for fun—just to share some pictures that I found humorous with other people here. They are of course appropriate in light of this thread's title, but I wasn't attempting to prove a point. If you hover your cursor over the first image, you might gain a little insight into my interest.
As one who hasn't played video games for what feels like a couple of years now, I frankly don't care which system people prefer. Since this is a Mario message board, the support is (or certainly should be) automatically tilted toward Nintendo, but it doesn't really matter. My creation of this topic stemmed from caring about the debate to some degree, but that was not everything. Please feel free to read the opening post again if you need a refresher.
In any case, although I do truly care about other people, I will not carefully avoid any word or image that might potentially "offend" somebody. That, to me, is a ridiculous way to live. For example, I will continue to wish people a "Merry Christmas" in December even though some of them believe that only "Happy Holidays" is safe and inoffensive. Or if you want to tell me in a respectable manner what you think of Apple Computer's trashy products, which I strongly support, then please go ahead.
What I cannot stand is blatant flaming, which is very difficult
not to be offended by. It is outright rude, and for the morally incompetent, it is in violation of one of the forums' mere
four rules. Unless you didn't read my edits of nintendo is sorry's posts, you know that violation is why I edited them. What he said served first and foremost the base purpose of inciting anger and dissension among the other members here. It is this type of behavior for which such members as marioguy and jon were banned. If you cannot see the difference between this and what I have posted, then I do apologize. I can say nothing to help you.
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