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Post by deathevokation on Sept 25, 2017 14:51:01 GMT -5
On another part of the internet, I'm stuck in a flamewar and dropped my civility when my opponent started dishing out sarcastic and condescending remarks and when I realized that the review was made in bad faith (abusing Steam's refund system) as part of a review bomb campaign against a dev that suffers social anxiety to the extent that he lives in a bomb shelter, there's nothing that's going to be gained from me being there.. yet at the same time I'm probably going to keep getting notifications for probably as long as the thread is "the most useful Steam review for a game" (even if you unsubscribe from a review Steam sends notifications when the author replies).. the thread is like looking at a car accident atm. The kind that's more cathartic to read than to be a part of. : )) The thing that's wearing me out is the fact that people with this amount of vindictiveness exist, not so much what they're saying.. so.. how do you handle situations like this without letting them shit on your day?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2017 16:08:57 GMT -5
You just say D, I
L, L, I
G, A, F, dilligaf
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Post by 40oz on Sept 25, 2017 17:14:02 GMT -5
Notifications are great when you need them but sometimes they just come at the worst possible times. They're kinda like boners.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2017 17:20:30 GMT -5
Only if you're not using them correctly, in both instances.
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Post by deathevokation on Sept 26, 2017 3:21:51 GMT -5
haha thanks for that post, Glen.. it helped me more than it probably should have. And yeah I should probably just get over it, just irritating as hell when you're unironically enjoying anime for once that isn't stupid girly shit and can't turn notifications off to a thread where everyone has dead codfish eyes and are clearly in some world where they don't see someone as human and are trying to ruin his lively hood to make an example for anyone else who disagrees with a hivemind... I guess I didn't know that there were so many psychopaths on the internet. Meh, I guess I just need to learn to be more Australian, desu.  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2017 8:14:06 GMT -5
Ironically I have learnt to be more Aussie by becoming more Brazilian. Not sure how that works but I like it.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2017 10:04:42 GMT -5
You say "life is too short for this" and shake their hand.
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Post by TOS on Sept 26, 2017 13:33:14 GMT -5
I would say exactly this: This conversation is no longer serving neither of our benefit and I will not be participating in it any longer.
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Post by mistercornbread on Oct 2, 2017 8:36:41 GMT -5
When people fuck with me, I refuse to insult them back unless it's something playful (but not malicious). I ask them what they're angry about, or try to get clarification. I just keep being rational, calm, even get a bit joking, and they fucking hate that. They'll either stop being hostile or just move on. I don't debate with people to win; I debate to learn information. That can keep things from getting too ugly.
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Post by deathevokation on Oct 2, 2017 9:17:35 GMT -5
Yeah, I often have to fight just to get my point across.. and by that I mean just getting people to understand where I'm coming from and that it's not a place of bad faith, once I've done that I'm usually happy and whatever happens next just happens. There's no better feeling when you find common ground with someone that's on the opposite side of an argument and wrap up the debate in good terms, and by that I'm not talking about skeptists, I'm talking about someone on an extreme side of a spectrum that you previously thought was authoritarian. It often involves both of us taking back a lot of dumb shit we said, though.  |
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Post by 40oz on Oct 2, 2017 9:55:15 GMT -5
I don't debate with people to win; I debate to learn information. That can keep things from getting too ugly. This is important. If more people thought like you, the world would be a better place. In my experience, debates can be very fascinating, because it's a healthy exercise to have your ideas challenged. But it gets really annoying when someone is not owning up to the fact that they are being dishonest. They just want to be the winner, the person who gets the last word, or to represent a claim that they are not fit to defend, but they will return with a rebuttal anyway. |
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