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Ooh, a good reply. I'm going to have to think about this response a bit. I think we are actually close to coming to terms, it's just a bit of semantics at this point possibly.

Concerning your analogies, where I think they are wrong is that you're saying I watch a lot of some specific genre and then am trying to compare the rest of them. Like, I watch a lot of anime, and nothing else, and now am trying to compare The Notebook to Avengers Endgame. In reality, it's the opposite. If we are to use the analogy. I watch all the other genres except anime. Let's say I watched an anime show in 2016. Then just recently watched another anime show in 2020. What if I were to say "I havent seen anime show A since anime show B"? Well, anime fans out there may have some complaints with that. "Those shows are nothing alike, blah blah blah." Well I never initially stated they were, I just said that's the last anime I watched!

/NFUN: "And no shit I'm exaggerating. That's the entire point of an analogy, to demonstrate the core of an argument in the most obvious and readily-grasped terms. If you want a more "grounded" example in the other direction, Sharknado and Jaws, then. You can point out all the similarities you want. There's some inherent disconnect there"/

That's actually a perfect example. If Jaws was the last shark movie I've seen, and I comment on a Sharknado topic that "I havent seen a shark movie like this since Jaws," I wouldnt expect anyway to come out saying, "???? How! Those are nothing alike. I literally cannot think of any way they are alike except they have water in them." It just seems like an unnecessary reaction to that statement.

As for the article. I did read it. I think it stil says something to the fact that he thought of Undertale when thinking of similar games to Hollow Knight, but I get what you're saying about it. All I'm saying is at least they have similar motifs. They involve a main character going on a quest or adventure or whatever through an unknown area, meeting weird, quirky npcs along the way. I know a lot of games are like that, but it's not like I'm trying to compare Grand Tourismo with Kingdom Hearts.

And that brings me to a final point in this comment. I was never trying to make a helpful comparison/similar recommendation or anything like that. I was just saying that Undertale was the last game like HK that I could think of. I've tried to explain how I've never really played Metroidvanias and how not being a Nintendo or PC gamer makes it easy to avoid those kind of games. If you find that embarrassing on my part, then so be it, but it should most definitely be understandable. And I still hold fast that the whole reaction on your part, not just the movie analogies, is a bit of a overeaction. They just arent as different as your making them out to be.

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