Response from Mario Should Retire guy

Patrick Goss, a freelance writer for MSN UK, has responded to 4 Reasons Mario Should Never Retire. This post was a response to his article about why Mario should retire. Here is his comment:

Patrick Goss here; nice to see you read the article.
Just for the record - I’m a freelancer who does one weekly column for MSN on gaming, so the disclaimer is fairly accurate. They don’t tell me what I can’t write or what they think I should be saying. If they did it would be no fun and I wouldn’t do it.
I used to be the tech editor at MSN but now I work full time at Future and the gaming column is just a side project
So how can I comment on Nintendo and Mario? Because I write opinion pieces and this is an opinion. Do I think your response is valid? Absolutely.
Although “like saying an effing Bill Murray cameo would get old”. It did.
I love Mario - and I’d like to keep loving him - which is the gist of what I was saying.
Anyway - enjoyed the response :)
Yours
‘douche’ aka Gaming Goss

Now that we disagree on two major things in life, Mario and Bill Murray, I would like to say that it is super cool that he took the time to respond, and that he signed his name ‘douche’. I will officially retract the ‘douche’ because of this. MSN is still the wrong platform for a Mario commentary (opinion writer or not, something still stings about it coming from an Microsoft outlet). All in all, epic article and we love the controversy.