Quote - comparisons are sophomoric? blink. and to think that i make them all the time when i am deciding where to put my hard-earned money.

To make your purchase decisions isn't what I said or was even refering to but rather jjsemp's comment that Clark was a "waste of hardrive space".  It suggested, by comparison, that it had no place in the marketplace because it wasn't "Apollo".    You actually go on to make my point with:

Quote - that said, i think the clark bashing should stop now, and people who want to play with him shouldn't be lambasted.

Neither should Shahara simply because he didn't create another Apollo. 

...... Kendra