And yet by saying it does not have the same features it is inherently not the same.
This iphone 3 doesn't have the same features as the iphone 4, so clearly I don't have an iphone. That's what you're saying when taken in to different context.
Again, I did not argue that you did not say that. I stated that that is what the OP says he liked, then saying, "This is the same, it can do everything but that one thing you want" doesn't make sense. If I said that I wanted a car that got 35 miles per gallon, and that was the only thing that I said I liked, would you then offer me an alternative saying it's the same but it gets 20 miles per gallon? No, because that is absurd.
This doesn't make ANY sense. 35 miles to the gallon is not a feature, if you were telling me you wanted a car with air conditioning and I sold you a car with powered windows, then yes you could make that comparison. In this case the only feature that isn't the same is the ability to name a game, because naming a game would be considered a feature to the matchmaking system. Oh and double clicking the name to immediately join. But no, again, the features being discussed is the ability to name a game.
That is literally what it does. Equivalent means it has the same features. Since it does not, it is not equivalent. You could argue that it is inferior/superior/similar, but it cannot, by definition, be equivalent. 3 and 4 are equivalent except the former is missing a 1, this is what you are saying.
No it doesn't mean that AT. ALL. The word you're looking for is identical, not equivalent.
No, you do not know those games are still ongoing. You do not know that anymore than the D2 system listed defunct games. And I never said that the D2 systems was without flaws of its own or that it could not have used enchancements.
Yes you do know if those games are still ongoing because you can see the spam, or you can msg the user who posted it.
It is different because it is a chat window. In a chat window there will be, obviously, chatting. And if you are in multiple communities, this can produce a wall of text. It is not simply a list of games to join. The system is flawed in its nature by putting the game solicitations and chatting in the same window.
No, it really isn't. You sit there and read a list. You are purposely going out of your way to find things to complain about, oh no there could possibly be people chatting, shit that totally makes it worse oh no!!!!
I disagree. I think the two should be separate. There is no reason that the community system could not co-exist with a game browser proper.
Who is talking about them not co existing? I prefer the community browser/chat over the D2 browser, and for reasons I have already stated. Unless we had a game browser that could filter lvls/paragon/class/spec the D2 browser would be a step backwards. This is Diablo 3, not Diablo 2.
You said two things that are not the same are the same. And then you later agreed that they are not the same but still argue that they are. Again, you can say superior/inferior/similar/etc. but you cannot argue that they are the SAME.
You lost what you are talking about here. You are making absolutely no sense because you are picking and choosing what arguments make it in to your retort. You have been doing this ever since the first reply, picking and choosing which arguments and then jumping around referring things said in the past in the incorrect context, just like how I said reading a browser window is no different than reading a chat window, but somehow you think because it is not the literal exact same thing, that it is not the similar. Your problem is you're being extremely pedantic about the words that are being used here, and then you use that to make your argument. You're not arguing that the two systems are alike, you're arguing about semantics on the words being used and ignoring the message.
When I said OP wasn't belly aching of nostalgia, you said you weren't talking about him. Now you say that you weren't talking about me. Apparently you are just talking about nobody.
Come on dude, I am under the assumption that you can see what is going on in the comments here. There are PEOPLE belly aching about it. I apologize if you aren't paying attention to what other people are saying, because I am.
That is what makes things the same. If they have the same features then they are the same. If they have different features then they are different.
No it isn't, the same doesn't mean literal same. You are having a problem here differentiating the meaning of words. You are correct in the context that the two systems are NOT the literal same. You got me there, unfortunately I have never argued they are the literal same. Your whole argument rides on this, since they are not the literal same, they can't be the same. I am sorry if you are unable to understand this concept.
Just like say, cold medicine, if it doesn't contain the same exact ingredients it isn't the same, it's suddenly not cold medicine, it's something else because they didn't say put a flavoring in it.
What? Who cares what other people are talking about. I'm speaking to you. You asked to provide reasons why they are different and I did. I brought them into the discussion with you, what do the rest of the comments in the thread have to do with that?
Because it is INCREDIBLY relevant when my initial post was to anyone in the thread, you decided to respond to me with things that weren't being discussed. You brought up issues that I wasn't addressing, you brought up inconsistencies that don't exist anywhere else. The whole argument is based on what OP has said, and now you're saying that isn't relevant? So you just came in to this comment chain, hijacked it and expect me to not address your inconsistencies?