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Re:How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026 by fourside on Thursday August 06, 2026 @01:56PM (#49200054)
I don’t think the parent comment was trying to equate the two, but rather pushing the argument to its logical extreme to test show that the reasoning doesn’t hold consistently across cases. Whether they made a convincing argument is separate.
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Re:How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026 by edent on Thursday August 06, 2026 @02:12PM (#49200259)
I literally was trying to equate the two.
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Re:How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026 by nonethewiser on Thursday August 06, 2026 @02:19PM (#49200358)
Except pushing it to the logical extreme is what makes it wrong.

Nevermind that he literally was equating the two and explicitly says so.

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Re:How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026 by virissimo on Thursday August 06, 2026 @04:35PM (#49202156)
Taking it to a logical extreme is good practice for thinking from first principles, but always pair it up with going to the logical extreme in the other direction. That might look something like: "would you really eat at a restaurant owned by a habitual jaywalker?".
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