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Re: HD-DVD, Blu Ray forums on AVS Forum shut down because of physical threats

Posted by ChairmanOfTheBored on 11/10/07 03:27

On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:44:16 -0000, Rich <rtperna@gmail.com> wrote:

>They should have shut the hi def disc area down months ago.

You're an idiot.

> It
>attracted the worst of the internet from both sides, and was a mess.

And obviously... idiots from the nether regions as well.

>I love AVSForum and frequently post and read the other forums, but I
>haven't gone into the "Blu Ray/HD-DVD Cesspool" for quite some time.
>It was just ridiculous.

So is worrying about it. Much less posting about it.

>
>To be honest, I don't think one side was worse than the other. If I
>was forced into picking, I'd say the Blu Ray people started it; they
>called the HD-DVD people dregs, and repeatedly said the only reason to
>buy HD-DVD is if you were too poor to afford the "technologically
>superior format". When the XBox people fired back accusing the Blu
>Ray people of being snobs, there was just really no going back. It
>was thinly disguised class warfare, which was interesting from a
>societal aspect, but not so interesting if you just wanted to read
>about the latest releases on both formats.

Bullshit. There is no class war. Blu Ray owners as well as HD DVD
owners are higher income bracket folks on BOTH sides.

Where do you dredge this utter bullshit up from? Come back IF you ever
get a sociology or psychology degree.

>It also didn't help that those forums were INFESTED with shills.

Idiots like you cal anyone that disagrees a troll. Anyone that touts a
shill. Where do you get off the stupidity bus at? Oh... that's right...
you are DRIVING IT!

> I've
>never in my life seen a single forum so full of people who stood to
>gain financially from the success of one of the two formats,
>pretending to write impartial posts boosting their format of choice.

I doubt you have any proof that that takes place. All you have is your
ill drawn conjecture, at best.

>It was just a lot of dick swinging and nonsense, and in the end they
>did the right thing.

What do you call your little dance here? Fairy tip-toeing?

 

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