This blog might and most likely will make you believe what I got to say is wrong, so if you do end up feeling like I am wrong please read it to completion as I will have something to tell you by the end. That or you can just skip to the end that works too if you want an easy way out.
Now how many of you have been in a heated argument over something but had the other person or you yourself be the person to try to end it by saying "Well it's my opinion."
Those words that to be the point in time where you think the argument is over, this person or you will not concede to the idea of being wrong so they/you threw the IMO card to defend him/yourself from further arguments.
Now some of you might be thinking "Who cares let them think whatever they can they are entitled to their opinion and it's just a stupid argument anyway no need to be bent out of shape about it."
To you sir I say, well duh internet arguments are pointless but it's the topic of my blog so let's act like it does to amuse ourselves with it. The reason why this card tends to be thrown in is because there's this idea that a person's opinion can't be wrong because that is what they think and you can't tell someone they are for not thinking the same as you.
Well I consider this to be say it with me now, WRONG, an opinion can be wrong if they come from the wrong mindset.
Let me use this example: "In my opinion Hitler was a really nice guy." To begin with this is not my opinion but let's say you met someone does believe this. Now do you believe his opinion is correct?
So we are clear I'm not saying a person doesn't the right to an opinion especially when it contradicts your own but there is a limit. If we're talking which game is more fun between Gears of War or Halo than having conflicting opinions is fine but as soon we start saying something like Resident Evil 6 is better than The Last of Us than you are horribly wrong.
Again people are entitled to feel that way if they want but it doesn't mean it's not wrong because it can be especially when the situation is something that does involve some objectivity.
Let me use a real life argument I had. I remember this one time when I was arguing with a guy I knew over what constitutes as a horror game. Now I have studied the art of horror games so I was well versed in what can be defined as a horror game and what is a good and bad horror game.
I stated a horror game needs to instill a sense of dread, desperation and vulnerability, his response however was a game that needs to give a mini gun with a truck load of bullets. Now clearly you can see why this opinion is wrong because you are challenging the objectivity of what is a horror game and what isn't.
If you're wondering how the rest of the conversation went well he claimed I was wrong and would be dead if a zombie apocalypse happened because I wouldn't have any weapons. So yeah he was an idiot but you see what I'm trying to get here right that even if it's something that person or you believe in doesn't mean it's free of ridicule.
An opinion is not an impenetrable that can be placed to justify a way of thinking, a person is free to think anything they want, believe anything they want but at the same time there moments when it's just wrong not because of a contradiction between views but because of one of objectivity.
So next time you see someone throw this card or you throw it remember this, just because it's an opinion doesn't mean you can't call BS on it and to the guys who read this peace and think I'm wrong for it. Thank you for proving me right.
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um... I didn't know Hitler personally, so I can't factually disagree that he wasn't a nice guy. What he did as a dictator doesn't really speak to who he was behind closed-doors. (even then, I get the point).
But you're right about horror games though. Hell, your whole blog needs to be hung from the rafters of the Internet because I don't feel like explaining this to everyone who pulls this crap.
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"IMO" is too often just used as a tool by people who know that their argument doesn't hold much water.
"IMO" is just as bad as the "Opinion Piece." It's as if the opinion piece somehow protects the author from reports for clickbait.
Today there are a few. One entitled: "PlayStation Just Screwed Up Big Time" an "opinion" piece about the prices that have shown up on the private PS4 Now Beta that are ummmm beta... Yeah, I guess someone doesn't know what that means.
This is followed by "I Want Destiny To Fail" What? And a trolling Watch Dogs review that erroneously claimed "Graphics Downgradez Durr!!!"
It is so utterly idiotic.
Walking in with IMO is one of the only ways you can engage with some people who are arguing with what they think is facts but is actually just their opinions.
If you can point out how you both have different opinions you can either defuse most debates, while looking significantly less of a dick than the people throwing contradictory "facts" at each other.
If they have wrong facts, yes correcting them makes sense but often highlighting their stance by coming from a balanced position is sensible too.
.. Also there's no consensus on what a horror game means, I can think of a bunch of different variations which fit under that umbrella. ;)