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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 1071396" data-attributes="member: 259">Sarcasm?  Irony?  Oh, you mean the "when you say...it makes me feel..." statements?Yeah, I was funnin' you a little:  I figured I was gonna express the thought anyway, so I may as well express it in a means that contradicted the generalizations your posts made (and at the same time hopefully made Teflon Billy's flesh crawl <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ).But I do mean it.  It's not acceptable to say, "I know that Jews aren't all greedy, and I get along fine with plenty of Jews.  But how come the Jews control Hollywood and distort the entertainment industry to reflect their agenda?"  Your post came across to me as saying something very similar about guys.Yeah, you're playing with some jerks.  But they're not jerks because they're guys.  The vast majority of gamers are guys, true -- but that means that when you encounter a jerky gamer, they're pretty likely to be a guy.I'd be afraid that if you came into my group, you'd be expecting me to be all confrontational and patronizing and stuff, since I've got external plumbing.  And ifyou expected me to be a jerk, there's a good chance that you'd radiate hostile vibes toward me -- and I'd respond by thinking, "What the heck is HER problem?" and wouldn't be very nice back to you.Definitely get out of this group of jerks, if they're being this frustrating to you.  But please don't go into your next gaming group with the assumption that the guys in it are going to behave similarly.Again:  treat everyone as an individual with a peculiar personality, and you won't find yourself making bad assumptions about them.Daniel</blockquote>

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