Must have missed that, though I wouldn't miss it for the world, so...
Where do you come up with comments like 'Where do you come up with comments like 'seeking loneliness, disregarding social interaction and communication isn't exactly popular'?
Where do you come up with replies, stating that it isn't? I based my comment on experience and from my experience, an antisocial attitude will not make anybody popular. It's like greeting someone, that won't greet you back. Talking to someone, who won't answer, asking for company you won't get. A game that evokes those feelings, i.e. allows for little to non interaction with NPCs, omits dialog, puts its main character character in a suit like she would suffer from the Glanzmann–Riniker syndrome, goes the same path in my interpretation, and it's not exactly leading to popularity.
I've got a cold, hard factual definition of popular; any game that sells more than a million copies is popular.
Well, I've also got one "hard factual" for you: selling one million copies of an in-house game doesn't define popular to Nintendo. Like at all. It's the definition of niche, i.e. something
not exactly popular. The way Big N treats this series doesn't give me the least hint, that they would define it differently.
Your last line is -again- very romantic and poetic but doesn't make any sense (unless you dig poetry which a lot of fags here do). It's not exactly Homer's Odyssey.
I tell you what, Homer was allegedly the name of Matt Groening's father, but it also was the name of the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Now if you think that Groening had exclusively his father in mind when he choose the name for his Homer Simpson, and that it could have been just as well Tom, Dick or Harry or whatever name his grand parents would've chosen for his Dad, then it's okay with me, but I don't and if that doesn't make any sense to you either, then... it's okay with me, too. And yeah, I dig poetry. My favorite poets are Lil' Dap & Melachi the Nutcracker from Group Home.