You don't need to counter his points. Do it if you want to be part of this discussion.
However, I humbly suggest that if you're not going to participate in an on topic discussion, but you're simply going to trivialize someone else based on your own bias of that individual, that you keep your opinion to yourself.
Well I like to alert the general majority of people reading this thread to understand who stands for what. And I get annoyed sometimes when people don't understand Dane's real opinion on the game is around bias. So I think it's important to voice on who/or what we're discussing and whether or not it's important to discuss such a thing.