User blog comment:The Milkman/Madness and Genius/@comment-2076032-20121209105806/@comment-2076032-20121209192632

You can also hear the ending. For some people, you can also feel it. Just like you can taste, smell and see steak, you can apply multiple senses to garner perspective. I "steered" the conversation to perspective because you steered it onto a tangent about one point in my overall assessment.

Additionally, I was using arguments to begin with, and you were dismissing them, or ignoring them. Ad hom only applies in the absence of an argument. I made an argument, you missed the point and demonstrated that that you thought you already knew everything. Dunning-Kruger applies here. Not because it's an ad hom, but because you've demonstrated it.

You can't just call 'ad hom' because you're losing an argument. This has a name too - it's called a 'strawman'