The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[el-remmen]

There goes the neighborhood.

 

[CleverNickName]

That's all very valid, but it also seems like it all boils down to needing to throw in some qualifiers of "everybody I know" or "in my experience, everybody". It gets tiring to have to police the extent of every statement you make to repetitively acknowledge the limits of your own experience. But of course, when you don't, the reader often has no way of knowing whether you are simply being uncareful in your language, or whether you are actually being uncareful in your thinking, because one of the central bummers of saying anything online is that you are forever making first impressions.

Mostly it's the belief that one person can speak for all gamers everywhere that sticks in my craw. More often than not, people use terms like "everyone" and "nobody" to inflate a weak argument...to make whatever they write seem more applicable and more important than it is. It makes me itch.

 

[Ryujin]

That's all very valid, but it also seems like it all boils down to needing to throw in some qualifiers of "everybody I know" or "in my experience, everybody". It gets tiring to have to police the extent of every statement you make to repetitively acknowledge the limits of your own experience. But of course, when you don't, the reader often has no way of knowing whether you are simply being uncareful in your language, or whether you are actually being uncareful in your thinking, because one of the central bummers of saying anything online is that you are forever making first impressions.

The one thing that gets me is when you make a comment and someone responds with something like, "Well, that's just your opinion." Well DUH! Whose opinion would I be using?

 

[trappedslider]

I dislike pedantics

 

[Malmuria]

The 25 page rule: after 25 pages, a thread has typically exhausted most of the arguments and opinions about a given topic, and thus is no longer worth following.

exceptions: threads about pizza, whose meaning is enigmatic and limitless

 

[Cadence]

How am I supposed to trust the opinion of someone who would destroy a perfectly good corned beef sandwich on rye by adding cabbage goo and a mayonnaise concoction. If they can mess up something that simple, why shouldn't I suspect that their gaming habits are similarly absurd!

<-An example of an appropriate use of corned beef.

A quick web-search will find a reputable web-site to back this up entirely!

Sauerkraut

en.uncyclopedia.co

 

[CleverNickName]

If you don't know how to make a proper Reuben, there's no way I'd trust you to run my D&D table.

 

[Cadence]

If you don't know how to make a proper Reuben, there's no way I'd trust you to run my D&D table.

Step 1. Apply the Sauerkraut and Dressing appropriately...

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

If you don't know how to make a proper Reuben, there's no way I'd trust you to run my D&D table.

You wanna sammie?

Go to Langer’s. MacArthur Park.

Get a 19. 28 if you want them to slip you a little tongue.

 

[Cadence]

From the Omaha Gateway, 3 Mar 1953:

I should warn everyone to not go searching for later articles. Something seems to have infected the writers after about this time and they actually like them!?!? Apparently bizarre trends and beliefs predate the internet.