I'm not claiming you can watch every single game from the 70s
but the fact is that you can definitely watch a bunch of them. The ''video clips'' I've pulled up are examples: all three of those are full games. The fact that they exist are proof that you can indeed watch full games from the 70s, and those three games are not the only games from the 70s that have been preserved. You can watch them. Any attempt to pretend that you can't watch any full games from the 70s is just flat out dishonesty.
I said that Pistol Pete had flaws. Then later in the discusses I then added this: ''I've also probably watched these games more recently than you have, and therefore might have less of a rose-tinted-glasses view on them''. This doesn't disagree with the first point, and it doesn't discredit the experience you've had watching the Pistol play. The fact that you watched tons and tons of his game is still totally true, and I'm not discounting it.
That's not the same as changing the argument. In fact, the two actually lead on from each other; Pistol Pete was a great player. I haven't denied that, nobody else has denied that. But he was not a
perfect player, and therefore he had flaws and the fact that you watched him at the time, which was a long while ago, may have allowed some of the flaws in his game to get glossed over in the nostalgia haze. That's perfectly normal, everyone has that sometimes. Maybe that's not the case, and you're actually totally aware of Pistol Pete's flaws, but then it makes it kind of weird that you'd react so negatively to someone just pointing out that they existed.