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The author concludes that selling the movie rights for popular video games is rarely good for business. He supports this by noting that the film adaptation of Nostroma was hated by critics and audiences, and later versions of the game sold poorly, even though they were better than the original.

This is the cookie-cutter flaw of hasty generalization, where the author draws a broad conclusion based on too little evidence. Here, the author argues that selling the movie rights for video games is usually bad for business, but he only provides one example. Perhaps Nostroma doesn’t accurately reflect most video game movies. Maybe it was just a bad movie, and most video game movies are successful and boost sales.

The author draws a general conclusion about selling the movie rights for video games on the basis of just one individual case: the Nostroma movie. But the Nostroma movie might not accurately reflect the business impact of most video game movie deals.

The author explicitly states that the Nostroma movie was hated by both critics and the public. He doesn’t assume that the public will dislike something just because critics disliked it.

This is the cookie-cutter flaw of circular reasoning, where the argument’s conclusion merely restates one of its premises. The author doesn’t make this mistake. He draws his conclusion based on an example that is distinct from that conclusion.

The author doesn't assume that games and movies about similar content will be equally popular. If anything, he assumes that the movie version of a popular video game will be significantly less popular.

This is the cookie-cutter flaw of confusing necessary and sufficient conditions. The author doesn’t make this mistake. In fact, he never presents a necessary condition for a product to be popular in the first place.

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