I've noticed a lot of people just downvote his comments without even trying to understand anything he says - in this case, it was an amusing Earthbound related

I've noticed a lot of people just downvote his comments without even trying to understand anything he says - in this case, it was an amusing Earthbound related joke, and unsurprisingly downvotes follow because of the commenter, and not the comment itself. Goes to show how broken the system is.