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<blockquote data-quote="BrokeAndDrive" data-source="post: 5207976" data-attributes="member: 89265"><p>[spoiler]<strong><OT></strong> <em>*puts on Spock/Data voice*</em> It's probably because, while the others were just off-handedly/non-seriously commenting and not really focusing on it, you came in with guns blazing and sirens blaring in the form of strong, incendiary opinions apt to spark a massive flame war between those of libertarian and conservative (or whatever) mindsets, had a mod not popped in to nip it in the bud. 'Sall about tact. Same reason why little boys get in a lot more trouble, because girls are much more subtle and cunning with their misbehavior. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> <strong></OT></strong>[/spoiler]</p><p></p><p>But enough about that, on with the happy p- uh, keeping players engaged! Which, come to think of it, they WOULD help. <em>*twitch* *slapself*</em></p><p></p><p>Most of the time I don't have issues with it (mostly because ADHD friends and family are the norm -- talking over movies, never reading more than a few sentences of several-page-long things I've written, etc. -- and I'd have a heart attack if I were too bothered by it).</p><p></p><p>Sometimes, though, attention need be nabbed.</p><p></p><p>I'm not too witty when it comes to face-to-face verbal "jousting" as could be said, and I just so happen to be the kind of person that is more-or-less ignored unless I'm deliberately rude or obnoxious, so my attempts at getting attention, <em>and my inability to not create an abomination in the form of a ten-comma-filled run-on sentence,</em> involve shouting "OH GOD A DRAGON!" while rolling initiative for a sudden drake attack, even if they're in town (a mage's pet got loose, or a beast being sent to the gladiator pits... um, got loose).</p><p></p><p>Can't really add anything else, though I will be trying some of the ideas laid out here! Keep them coming, please!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BrokeAndDrive, post: 5207976, member: 89265"] [spoiler][b]<OT>[/b] [i]*puts on Spock/Data voice*[/i] It's probably because, while the others were just off-handedly/non-seriously commenting and not really focusing on it, you came in with guns blazing and sirens blaring in the form of strong, incendiary opinions apt to spark a massive flame war between those of libertarian and conservative (or whatever) mindsets, had a mod not popped in to nip it in the bud. 'Sall about tact. Same reason why little boys get in a lot more trouble, because girls are much more subtle and cunning with their misbehavior. :devil: ;) [b]</OT>[/b][/spoiler] But enough about that, on with the happy p- uh, keeping players engaged! Which, come to think of it, they WOULD help. [i]*twitch* *slapself*[/i] Most of the time I don't have issues with it (mostly because ADHD friends and family are the norm -- talking over movies, never reading more than a few sentences of several-page-long things I've written, etc. -- and I'd have a heart attack if I were too bothered by it). Sometimes, though, attention need be nabbed. I'm not too witty when it comes to face-to-face verbal "jousting" as could be said, and I just so happen to be the kind of person that is more-or-less ignored unless I'm deliberately rude or obnoxious, so my attempts at getting attention, [i]and my inability to not create an abomination in the form of a ten-comma-filled run-on sentence,[/i] involve shouting "OH GOD A DRAGON!" while rolling initiative for a sudden drake attack, even if they're in town (a mage's pet got loose, or a beast being sent to the gladiator pits... um, got loose). Can't really add anything else, though I will be trying some of the ideas laid out here! Keep them coming, please! [/QUOTE]
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