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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9115602" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Yes you did.It was hyperbolic, because the two things you were describing WERE that different. This isn't about something being absolutely identical before you can compare them, this is about needing to recognize when obvious differences negate the comparison. You were comparing a release of an unpopular product, pulled within two to three months, to a decades long, hidden and secret failure of information gathering that is still undetected and ongoing. Sure, you can say a blunder is a blunder, because calling someone by the wrong name and offending them is the same as driving drunk and killing three people. Both are blunders right? And in this case you are comparing a product release to gathering data, and a mistake realized and corrected in months to something that has gone unseen and uncorrected for 10 years. The only similiarities are they are both large companies, and they both would be considered blunders. But, in fact, the existence of things like the New Coke blunder DISPROVE your claim about WoTC. Because things like New Coke happen because of misreading the data and missing the mark with public approval. And WoTC has not released a product that has been reviled like New Coke was. Meaning their data has been ACCURATE.Pretty obvious in what way? Also, if the majority liked it, then the minority wouldn't matter?Wow. That is a disgusting level of deflection. You aren't responsible for your own answers to questions that other people ask, it is their fault for asking. You know the question had at least two different correct answers, right? And you chose which one to use. That isn't on me for asking the question.You are right, the singer is the better analogy. Because if the singer has no skill, then luck is meaningless. Family Video existed before Blockbuster. Whatever time Blockbuster claimed to get so lucky to be successful... Family Video also existed in that time frame. So, are we saying that it was the place? That only a video rental store started in Dallas, Texas could have possibly been as successful as Blockbuster while one in Springfield Illinois never could have been? Or... is it because of the skill of the people who ran the company? Did they play a part in why each company performed as it did?</blockquote>

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