Still at it I see, have another biscuit.
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Well, as I already stated, I do not understand the biscuit comment in the context of this discussion. If we were discussing roadhog, who has a highlight intro that appears to include biscuits, or Brigitte who appears to have a fondness for baked goods, I might understand this
Just because you use factually in a sentence, doesn’t make your usage of it correct.
English teachers would be crying in their classrooms if they saw it.
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Oh no you’re feeding the troll…
Literally? :o
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Aaaand you’re not stopping. More biscuits for you!
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I have explained my usage of the term earlier in this thread, and in other threads as well
I do not believe that my usage of this term is incorrect
Now I’m tempted to show some of their posts to my English teacher and see what he says…
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Still making assumptions! Here, take your biscuit and go have some fun in the game proper, okay?
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Please do this. I so want to see it.
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I’m on it. I’m pretty close with my English 12 teacher, and am sure he would be willing to humor me on this one. It might be a little while, though. ![:wink:](https://d74zh8edaijub.cloudfront.net/en/overwatch/images/emoji/twitter/wink.png?v=6" ":wink:")
Maybe he would be able to provide them with some advice! Though they don’t seem to take that very well…
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It’s poke the bear-time, methinks. 
Feeding it instead of poking it is nicer, I think. 
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For something to be factual, you actually need to be saying a bunch of factual information with evidence to back it up to show it is a fact.
So, factually every post you have made using the word factually has been filled with a bunch of your unproven opinions. You don’t even present decent examples of occurrences that have happened to you.
Your word is not gospel and sticking the word factually in front of your very sketchy sounding experiences does not make it a fact.
I don’t use the word factually for any of the posts I use to describe the posts I make about my experiences and put far more detail into explaining why I believe these experiences that many people have often agreed with as being common experiences. You can describe convincingly your tale, but it doesn’t make it a fact.
It becomes closer to a fact when a majority of people are agreeing with you and can also begin to provide evidence.
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I wouldn’t label Megadodo a troll.
They voice very straight forward logical positions. The way they reacted to the biscuit element was the same way they reacted to the blush emoji thing. Could be an act or whatever, doesn’t matter too much.
Their use of that straight forward logic is often correct. I haven’t reviewed all their responses though.
That said, another thing, is that when you quote someone on this forum their name will then appear as PersonsName-12345 or whatever. That 12345 number is their player #. You can throw that into Overbuff or whatever and typically find people.
Couldn’t find Megadodo. Could find True0Neutral though. So, profile availability is not really there. Link or not.
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I have explained my use of the term earlier in this thread and in many other threads
The thing is, the fact it was their opinion was usually made pretty clear. Their use, while for sure overused, is usually appropriate. Not saying always, just a lot of the time it does work, just doesn’t really need to be said.
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Just because they are stating their experiences, it still doesn’t make it an obvious fact.
Facts are generally something that have evidence.
There is no evidence.
I don’t go into an essay on a history topic and spew factually’s about the section that is my understanding of the topic at hand, the facts are the evidence that is shown, the rest is just a logical conclusion.
If person A relates to person B that Mercy is currently classified as support, but provides no proof of this statement, it remains a fact nonetheless
They’re going into the topic of their personal experience. What they then say is a fact in regards to their personal experience. That could very well be a lie, but we have no way of proving that.
That is why anecdotal arguments and such so often fall short. However, a lot of the Mercy discussion has been very based in anecdotal evidence, abstracts of feeling, etc. They then basically react to the Mercy situation in this very logical way.
This is similar to how RevertMercy would be all blush emoji and “well that’s your opinion, BUT I FEEL.” It’s the same thing, just from different angles in a sense.
I haven’t come across many posts by Megadodo where I actually find fault in their logic. Like if I were doing this robotically, makes sense.
Megadodo is like the kryptonite to anecdote and emotion, which is what much of the Mercy discussion has become. They just straight up don’t even deal in that subjective side.
It’s kind of interesting tbh.
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My issue is that they take things too literally.
They had hit enter on a post before they were finished, but still had provided some points. I responded to those points, and replied to the messy section (since they hadn’t been able to fix it yet) with “Megadodo.exe has stopped working.”
They immediately assumed that I was calling them a bot, and their reaction almost convinced me that they legitimately were a troll. I was trying to lighten the mood, while also attempting to help them understand why people were getting upset with them over the whole “factually” thing and actually help, but they zeroed in on this and ignored a huge portion of my points.
It’s hard to take someone who won’t take the time to listen and understand very seriously. I’m actually going to use my teacher as a credible source in order to get them to (hopefully) actually understand.
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The evidence is common knowledge and accessible in the gaming community.
The evidence is because she exists in the support category. That is not the same as you relaying an experience and throwing factually in front of it.
That evidence already exists in the form of SHE IS IN THE SUPPORT CATEGORY.
Your Mercy experience is just that, YOURS.
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