The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread
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Snarf Zagyg
Notorious Liquefactionist
With apologies to Bukowski ....
twitter diminishes me;
the longer I sit and read those tweets
the more empty I feel but I don't get
the idea that the people feel empty, I feel
that they enjoy the sound from their
mouths.
J.Quondam
CR 1/8
Twitter, after all, is the perfect self-selector for twits. There really is no better named site in all the interwebz.
HawaiiSteveO
Blistering Barnacles!
The problem with lecturing everyone else on how they’re living / playing / watching wrong is that if they listen and learn, you have no one left to feel superior to 
I managed to hold out posting in a thread for over a 100 pages. I was browsing it on and off, through some good arguments, some bad ones, and lots of fluff. I finally decided to throw in my $0.02... and the thread is closed two posts later. Can't tell if I missed the bus or dodged a bullet.
And it wasn't even the thread I was expecting it to be! (There are some you know will come back, not sure on that one).
J.Quondam
CR 1/8
Sounds to me like maybe you shot the bullet.
I dub thee "Threadslayer!"
BookTenTiger
He / Him
If you didn't convince this poster in the last thread... and the thread before that... and the thread before that... maybe it's not worth trying to convince them this time around?
Levistus's_Leviathan
5e Freelancer
But that's not the real fake Einstein quote!!!
Is Moe’s still a thing? They opened up a whole bunch of locations in D/FW- I thought they were pretty good, IMHO- and then after just a couple years, they started disappearing.
Oddly, each location was replaced by another chain restaurant. As in, all the same chain.
Odder still, THOSE restaurants also closed after only a short period of time.
The ones here in SC all seem to still be around. I'm guessing most South Carolinians have different standards for south westish food than those from DFW though
turnip_farmer
Adventurer
When I was a hot-headed and reckless youth, I found it very hard to let things slide. If someone was wrong, I had to let them and everybody else know.
Thankfully, I've mellowed, and a lot of the forums on which I spentt those days have gone the way of the dodo. I've learnt to accept that people who are not me are usually wrong, and just play games about dwarfs and hobbits instead of worrying about it.
Sometimes it still requires a bit of conscious self-control, though.
Thankfully, I've mellowed, and a lot of the forums on which I spentt those days have gone the way of the dodo. I've learnt to accept that people who are not me are usually wrong, and just play games about dwarfs and hobbits instead of worrying about it.
Sometimes it still requires a bit of conscious self-control, though.
Snarf Zagyg
Notorious Liquefactionist
Ugh. Every single time I think I've learned that lesson, I realize that ... I haven't. The gulf between understanding the right thing to do and practicing that is inevitable. Not to mention we all carry with us the stressors of what is going on in our own lives, and it is easier to be forgiving on ourselves than on others that we do not know.
It's almost always the same thing, too. I call it the Inevitable Third Person Corollary. Any argument that you're walking away from can be re-kindled and made worse by a third person coming in.
embee
Lawyer by day. Rules lawyer by night.
Is that from the thread where Silver chastised a virologist for stealing his Twitter take when, in fact, the virologist was responding to another virologist about that virologists medical research?
BookTenTiger
He / Him
There was a study a few years ago that showed that when people of different political ideologies actually got a chance to talk with each other online and took their time to explain their reasoning... it actually strengthened each person's belief in their own side.
I feel like I fall into this trap too. "If I explain my ideas clearly, THIS time the logic will be too strong for them to disagree with!"
And it... never works!
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