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

[FrogReaver]

At first, I thought it was a refreshing way to simply talk about the game and characters without seeming like a control freak. After like the 15th time I realized it was trying to tell folks how to play while walking on eggshells.

I still am inclined to say it's not the worst case, especially with a game as complicated as PF2e, especially especially if most of the table were new to it and your quarterback wasn't. That's not to say it couldn't be or couldn't become annoying, of course.

It sounds to me like in this instance it crossed the annoying line about 10 attempts ago

But i agree in general. Offering polite suggestions even with ulterior motives isn’t bad, as long as rejection of those suggestions is handled well.

 

[FrogReaver]

This meme is beyond my experience.

 

[RealAlHazred]

This meme is beyond my experience.

Rodney Dangerfield gets no respect! NO RESPECT, I TELL YA!

I just straight out of the gate tell players, "If you don't treat me as an authority, I won't treat you as a human being." Which is the same thing other people mean when they say, "If you don't treat me with respect, I won't treat you with respect," but more direct and cutting out the BS, which, as a New Jerseyan, I feel is my obligation to do...

 

[payn]

I still am inclined to say it's not the worst case, especially with a game as complicated as PF2e, especially especially if most of the table were new to it and your quarterback wasn't. That's not to say it couldn't be or couldn't become annoying, of course.

Not really, the suggestions were not taken nor asked for (ever) to receive the repeated suggestions. There is a point you need to take a hint. Folks dont want to trade out the ability to wildshape so they can be a good berry dispenser for your character.

About 25 years ago I was at a casino that had self serve soda fountains. I was about to get a pepsi when this woman next to me bellers out, "excuse me" then proceeds to move her cup and arms around me rudely. I just balked and said, "WTF lady?" and she just shrugged and said, "I said excuse me!" It was then I realized how many folks dont understand the point of etiquette. These folks think the purpose of "please" and "excuse me" is to alleviate any ill thought about their own selfish and rude behavior. The words are not magic folks, they are not meant to excuse your rudeness. They are to signal you recognize someone else and are asking for their attention and permission to be selfish and rude, you know, because you actually care if they do or not.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

This meme is beyond my experience.

 

[MarkB]

Not really, the suggestions were not taken nor asked for (ever) to receive the repeated suggestions. There is a point you need to take a hint. Folks dont want to trade out the ability to wildshape so they can be a good berry dispenser for your character.

About 25 years ago I was at a casino that had self serve soda fountains. I was about to get a pepsi when this woman next to me bellers out, "excuse me" then proceeds to move her cup and arms around me rudely. I just balked and said, "WTF lady?" and she just shrugged and said, "I said excuse me!" It was then I realized how many folks dont understand the point of etiquette. These folks think the purpose of "please" and "excuse me" is to alleviate any ill thought about their own selfish and rude behavior. The words are not magic folks, they are not meant to excuse your rudeness. They are to signal you recognize someone else and are asking for their attention and permission to be selfish and rude, you know, because you actually care if they do or not.

Yeah, reminds me of a certain radio presenter in the UK who'd been trying to negotiate his contract for the morning radio show to let him skip Fridays, because he also had a successful late-night TV show on Fridays. They said no, he quit live on air the next morning and left them with dead air.

Years later he was recounting his perspective and saying how rude it felt of them to have refused when he asked them so politely. Which showed that he'd completely missed the point of such politeness - if you're asking for something, you're leaving the other party the choice to say either yes or no, without consequence. If you then don't take no for an answer, you weren't asking - you were delivering a politely-phrased demand.

 

[Autumnal]

You can say anything you want as long as an emoticon is at the end. Its the new "no offense but..."

No. Also, well, maybe.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Any statement that starts, "With all due respect ..."

... inevitably ends with, "your opinions are trash, and you are a bad person for having them."

I sometimes wonder in a few cases if that's a subtle double-slam. After all, "due respect" assumes that respect is due.

Edit: Aaaaand I see I'm way late to the party with this point...

 

[billd91]

I sometimes wonder in a few cases if that's a subtle double-slam. After all, "due respect" assumes that respect is due.

Edit: Aaaaand I see I'm way late to the party with this point...

With all due respect, you're not obsessively stewing over these forums enough. You should have no other life, you terrible, terrible person.

 

[Maxperson]

the gravity well of such a thing is too difficult to escape.

You should point the astronomers to your post. It might be helpful.

Astronomers search for sources of mind-bending gravitational hum

A massive hum of energy pervades the universe. Is it supermassive black holes or something weirder?

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