wasn't just laughing about the fact that people have been touting slush pool on the side of xt so it's funny to see them come out and say they wouldn't run it. Besides, If you can't see the difference between xt and just running big block patch on core that's your problem.
Well, I find it funny that people care about whether others run XT or Core; since that choice, besides being irrelevant, is practically invisible from the outside. Even the difference between the various BIP100s is not important at first.
As I wrote before, the most important parameter is how many miners will
accept blocks bigger than 1 MB at some point in the future. That is basically what will determine the future of bitcoin: a chain with big blocks will prevail, a chain of small blocks only will prevail, or both chains will survive for some time, with disjoint communities.