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• Bademantel@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So the term is meaningless for you? That’s fine.

  Again, if something was the greatest of all time, it does not mean it still has to be. Otherwise the term is meaningless as even greater things might come in the future.

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  • orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Your definition in your own words states it’s meaningless.

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    • nogooduser@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s only meaningless if you’re pedantic.

      It obviously means the greatest of all time so far because at the time you make the statement you cannot judge what hasn’t happened yet.

      It gets more complicated when you’re saying it about a company or game in the past but I still think that it has meaning. It could mean that at the time, they were the greatest of all time (up until that point in time) but it could also mean that at this point in time that past version of EA was the greatest of all time (up until now, which is beyond the time that that version of EA existed).

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    • Bademantel@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If you only take it in the most literal sense, sure. A pointless exercise, don’t you think? Sometimes words have a funny way of meaning more than one thing. For most this concept works and GOAT can be meaningful. No, I’m not talking about the animal. Just to be clear.

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      • orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        GOAT = Greatest of All Time, right?

        Why not just say “great?”

        Makes “of all time” meaningless if you overuse it.

        Allow me to invoke Eddie Izzard… www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rYT0YvQ3hs

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