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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zombie Aladdin" data-source="post: 152568" data-attributes="member: 4242">The public is not a forgiving one and does not forget anything anyone has spoken. Many a politician have been ruined for having uttered something without delivering it.Also, you have an ability to perceive something from someone else's perspective, and you use this frequently (to where you refer to it as common sense). I'd consider that a good thing, but it's not universal. I think that most people who buy The Pinball Arcade buy it to play pinball machines digitally and don't give a rat's butt about Farsight. When it comes to transactions relating to The Pinball Arcade, they are only thinking about themselves and what they can get out of it. Some people want The Addams Family, and anything else would be interpreted as betrayal or dishonesty.As we're on the subject of The Simpsons here, think about the self-entitlement that Comic Book Guy has. He's constantly talking about how people owe him or how he gets upset when he discovers something isn't ideal. You know there are at least a few people like that waiting for the next Kickstarter from Farsight. Let's then apply the GIFT and the concept of the vocal minority, and the backlash if the next Kickstarter is anything but The Addams Family is all but inevitable.That's simple. It's a mark of accomplishment. Remember also that these networks have a number hanging over everyone's account names, meaning someone with a low number can be seen by everybody. Right from when Microsoft implemented Achievements on the original Xbox, these numbers became a mark of social standing on the network. Higher numbers are associated with greater skill (they're not; you have games like Avatar: The Last Airbender that awards points like candy, and you have others, like Sonic Unleashed that will refuse to give them up without a fight) and, presumably, greater respect (they're not; it's just like in the schoolyard, where nobody has the humility to actually respect anyone else).</blockquote>

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