I think I speak for most people when I say that I’m a good representative of the general population.

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Cake day: June 29th, 2020

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  • Yeah, I think someone deciding they don’t want to take a review seriously if it’s by someone who gave up on it quickly is fair. Especially if you’re poor and paying for games, you can’t get something new every day so you’d often prefer something that takes a lot of time to fully understand and appreciate, even if that comes at the expense of being a slog for the early hours.

    I also imagine that declaring a specific review invalid for this reason will more often than not just be sour grapes over someone trashing a game they love. It’s still not justified, but to some degree I get it. Maybe I’m visiting the wrong crowds but I think painting all of this as universally-applied mindless elitism, rather than as someone’s knee-jerk reaction to criticism for their specific passion, is itself overly dismissive. You can still call that out without presenting it as a caricature.