Actually, if anything we were also trying to get him to play it at the end
I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, but...that was part of my point. I know everybody was trying to get him to play it, even after he said to give him a few days, that emulation wasn't possible, etc. Given that his very first comment bringing light to the fact that he hadn't played SMRPG was saying he'd be playing it shortly, it wasn't necessary to try and coerce him to play it faster.
You are right about that.
I don't really have a problem with him never playing SMRPG and supporting Geno. I do think some of us here are supporting Takamaru while never playing his game.
On the other hand, I think it's kind of a problem that he has questionable arguments (such as inflating his importance and being a bit very defensive) about Geno's chances, which is honestly weird for someone who hasn't played the actual game if you ask me.
Not justifying the gang up though, I don't generally like that kind of thing either. It's just that it kinda struck me out as weird.
No offense or anything to Geno Boost.
As I said: It's fine to disagree, respectfully. But most of the response to the idea that he hadn't played SMRPG but was supporting Geno ardently was to laugh, which is not respectful.
Nobody's making fun of him for supporting Geno. It's about him basing everything he says and does around Geno when he's never even played the only game he has a significant part in.
Considering that he regularly argues with people who support Paper Mario and made a post earlier talking about how he was blocked by someone on Miiverse for saying Shantae is unpopular in Japan, I don't think the fact that he's a teenager makes a difference. If he's willing to dish it out, he should be able to take it.
I agree that people shouldn't have demanded he get a ROM and crap like that, and yes, it probably shouldn't have gone on this long, but the whole "You guys are bullying an innocent child!" nonsense really should've stopped after Swampasaur and Roger Smith tried it a week or two ago and he ended up going after Luigi the President for supporting Paper Mario in the middle of the two of them talking about how I'm a horrible antagonist.
I know
why people are making fun of him. The problem isn't the why, it's the "making fun of."
Let's put it this way: Who cares how old he is, you should be respectful regardless of his age. If it was anybody else being ganged up on and laughed at en masse like that, I'd be calling it out all the same. What he said on Miiverse is literally entirely irrelevant to this whole thing and I've no idea why you're bringing it up, and him arguing with people supporting Paper Mario is also irrelevant. I literally said there's no problem with disagreeing, what there
is a problem with is people being aggressive or derisive, especially when half the thread feels the need to chime in on the same point. The forum rules don't say "If somebody harasses you first, you can harass them back no problem," not to mention that I don't think he's done something akin to this before.
Also, nobody said "you're bullying an innocent child," or anything close to it. Pointing out his age is, IMO, more to remind people that everybody regrets things that they do when they're younger and you might not have appreciated a bunch of adults laughing at you over it when you did it. But that wasn't a primary point of my argument, it wasn't even something that I said directly, and addressing that is not really any sort of contradiction to my point. You can remove that point from everything I said and it doesn't change the end result.
^ Also, this.
There's been several Geno arguments involving this guy over the past month or so, and it's a bit surprising to learn that all this time, he's never played the game and likes the character because he saw some pics of him on DeviantArt.
It probably didn't warrant everyone in the topic taking jabs at him, but it more than warranted a response.
It was worth addressing, but
again, I have never once said "Don't disagree," I said to do so respectfully.