FWIW I've enjoyed your omakes and such. It's okay to step back from the thread for a bit, a few hours to even a day or two to calm down, but please don't just up and leave. I get the sense just about everyone's gotten pretty heated.
I tried things along those lines, but it's not worthwhile.
Me? No. Just tired of sneers.
Honestly my time in this thread became a lot less stressful when I stepped back from active or regular participation in discussion around votes and mechanics. You should try it as well before giving up.
I should remind people if you find a particular poster's posts completely intolerable and it causes you distressing fights, the ignore function exists for a reason [just don't tell anyone you're using it]. This thread is big and fast-moving enough you can probably afford to miss a few posts.
Honestly my time in this thread became a lot less stressful when I stepped back from active or regular participation in discussion around votes and mechanics. You should try it as well before giving up.
Also I don't get why people are sneering so much in general, I'm pretty sure I could pull some very wrong in hindsight quotes from just about anyone in the thread
Nah, we need a Vulcan to nerve pinch people who get too stressed.
You can choose to see certain posts if you need to.
This puts you in a weird spot psychologically though were you're like, "I HOPE WE FUCK UP AND THE GALAXY BURNS, AND THEN WHEN THE THREAD LOOKS UP AND ASKS 'SAVE US' I'LL POST BACK, 'NO.'"
I don't want that to happen.
If half the active participants think I'm clearly too stupid to play the game, what's the point of finding a lower-stress way to play the same game? I'm still cluttering the place up with my stupidity, cluelessness, laziness, and inability to contribute things of value.
I don't think I ever stooped to a personal attack. If you think otherwise could you point out where and suggest alternative wordings that would get the point across just as clearly? In fact I deliberately rephrased some things to make it clear that they were about behavior and actions in this thread rather than about the person, and I have consistently used wordings like "refuse to do" rather than "incapable of doing", with the sole exception of things like inferences about the current(!) state of mind like "seem to be under the misconception that" above. I don't think that constitutes either a personal attack or an insult? Nor do I think calling something a painfully terrible argument or acurately describing related personal experience is.
You are not stupid, clueless, lazy, or unable to provide valuable contributions. Anyone who tries to say you are any of those things can answer to me.
...That you think so makes me seriously consider putting the plan back after I pulled it. Thank you.
No one's said that, he's over reacting to an absurd degree.
Cat videos, puppy pictures, rabbit pictures all work. I have used them at work to help some coworkers deal with stress.
Some days you make faulty arguments, then compund on then by being increasingly melodramatic, like you're doing right now.
Honest question, and I mean it for reflection so don't feel you have to respond: do you think this is helping steer the thread away from drama and back to shitposting about the Rock Whisperer?
