User blog comment:Kaloneous/Mass Effect 3 Ending DLC Denied and PAX/@comment-4043223-20120323231035/@comment-217683-20120325063626

Nick, you crack me up. You accuse others of ignoring the points you make, but then you blatantly ignore theirs and instead beat the crap out of straw men. Your "debate" tactics are disingenuous, to say the least. Some examples from your attempted rebuttal of Alexsau1991:

"if you don't spare the Rachni it's replaced with a Reaper-Rachni. So you don't wan thtem to remake the ENDING, you want them to remake vast SWATHS of the game. Okay then." Not even close to what he's saying. Nowhere does he call for vast swathes of the game to be remade. He's merely pointing out that the decision to save or kill the rachni, one of the pivotal decisions of the first game, has little to no impact on the end of the trilogy, despite past assurances to the contrary.

"instead of the Ascension you see an almost identical ship - and the camera makes a very similar movement around it. You see three of those damn dreadnaughts, besides the Ascension. Your point? Again, you want vast SWATHS of the game changed." Two things - first of all, the language policy is still in effect. Abide by it. That's all the warning I'll give since Lancer has given plenty. Second, this is the same straw man as before. Nowhere is he arguing that vast swathes of the game be changed. Merely that another pivotal decision from the first game, which we were told would factor into the ending, was ultimately inconsequential.

I could go on, but hopefully you get the picture. If you want your arguments taken seriously, take those of others seriously too. Keep the language clean and, again, leave the straw men alone. Don't misrepresent what people said in order to debunk an argument more favorable to your position than what they actually said.