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yodon ◴[] No.45038582[source]
More than anything, Microsoft is incompetent at messaging and communications.

This is a feature that has been among the most loved aspects of its main competitor for more than a decade.

Somehow, Microsoft managed to make the same feature sound and feel and be creepy.

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1. TechSquidTV ◴[] No.45038787[source]
Microsoft could announce that they've made kittens live forever and people would complain.
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2. kstrauser ◴[] No.45040454[source]
Microsoft: We’ve opted all users not on the Ultimate edition into the mandatory Kitten Soul Cage.

Fans: You people will complain about everything!

3. olddustytrail ◴[] No.45040656[source]
There must be a name for this fallacy. You know where it goes:

Person/Company does crappy thing

People complain

Fanboy says "Person/Company could do amazing thing and people would still complain"

... when it's very obvious that company/person didn't do anything good.

I've seen it so many times there must be a name for it. Anyone know what it is?

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4. layer8 ◴[] No.45041261[source]
I don’t think kittens living forever would work out well, if you think about it.
5. technothrasher ◴[] No.45042209[source]
It's basically shooting the messenger, which is an ad hominem.
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6. olddustytrail ◴[] No.45042926{3}[source]
I'm not sure they're quite the same. If noone else has coined a term for it I'll go with the "cancer cure fallacy" but maybe someone has a better name. Open to suggestions!
7. RichardCA ◴[] No.45045191[source]
Begging the Question.

Step 1: Assume your claim is already true, e.g. "Microsoft is a still good corporate actor in spite of doing X".

Step 2: Manufacture circular logic to support your claim from Step 1.

In other words, the poster is begging the question to be self-evident, rather than producing evidence to support their claim.