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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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    • Bademantel@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh, I agree with you. It has been overused and I’m not a fan. Maybe the most overused acronym of all time?

      I guess I was annoyed by you being pedantic resulting in me… being pedantic. Tragic, really.

      Thanks for the sketch. I enjoyed it. It was awesome but more in the hot dog kind of way.

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      • orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It’s one of my favorite comedy specials. “Dress to Kill.” Also, his special “Circles” was great.

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