This is not an ad hominem argument. This is merely blowing things out of proportion. This would be ad hominem (and non-sequitur): "You're watching dancing bun

This is not an ad hominem argument. This is merely blowing things out of proportion. This would be ad hominem (and non-sequitur): "You're watching dancing bunnies, and you dare suggest we should remove the parens after sizeof?" Attack on the person (watching dancing bunnies), used to discredit an unrelated opinion (parens after sizeof).