In b4 l0ck! I just want to cast my half-cent into the mix.
Except there I read it and contemplated on it and decided that you were doing the inverse of what you thought you were doing. I didn't jump on you for no reason; if I were that type, then I'd be jumping on you more often because your posts do tend to be rather incendiary. You had a meaning set in your head and you thought you were projecting that in your post when in reality you were projecting a different meaning from what your post's wording implied. You never clarified that, either. Instead, you yelled back saying we are retarded for not understanding or reading your post. In practise, it was you not understanding the meaning behind your own words as they would sound to someone other than yourself. In a debate, it doesn't matter how your statement sounds to you, it matters how it sounds to the opposition. If I say something bad that genuinely was bad, I'll usually say "poor choice of words on my part," or something to that effect, and then go on to attempt to say what I really meant to say...unless certain people don't shut up long enough to actually read what I said in the first place (see also: Fukushima thread and Shooter's thread).Originally Posted by Pooky
You also used swear words every three words. Sorry, but when anybody does that, I'm not going to take him seriously in the slightest. It only reads like you (general you, not you you) are typing on impulse and adding maybe half of a brain-cell's worth of thought to your up-and-coming post. And if I see it, I will treat it as such. I like intelligible posts that attempt to use proper grammar, punctuation, and civil language. Please, save the cursing for situations where it might be a.) funny or b.)warranted. And no, saying it's your posting style is not a valid excuse to use swear words with the same frequency as articles.
And that brings me to part of what this forum's issue is: nobody reads. That's it. See a post? See poster's name? See topic? Link the three, assume the post is shit, and start typing. We're all guilty of this. I try to read each post carefully (usually reading the ones I'm replying to two or three times before I reply), but I still slip up every now and then. Some of you don't even try. Some of you do worse, going so far as to blatantly act like an asshole in a not-funny way to see if you can start a real argument. Save that shit for YouTube, where it actually is funny.
Take Reach (or any Halo feature from any game), for example. The general trend has those who really dislike it always providing solid reasons for not liking it. Those that like it do not offer up a comparable argument to make the nay-sayers coffer up a point and end the debate civilly.
Another example is with the Fukushima thread. I said that there was nothing wrong with the power plant and nuclear power should not be considered unsafe just because it broke when got hit by several high-magnitude earthquakes AND a Tsunami. What did people read? They saw it was me posting, assumed I said the opposite, and called me an idiot. Thanks.
Our most recent demonstration of this effect lies the Shooters thread. All I said was that a traditional stock (WHICH INCLUDES SEMI STOCKS, by the way) are just as good as pistol grips when it comes to single-shot, aimed fire. What happened? People started injecting automatic fire into the argument, started making stupid claims that you can't effectively clear a room with said traditional stocks (tell that to WWII veterans), and that one-handed fire is incredibly useful (to use the same argument, try clearing a room with an M16 on automatic, one-handed). I'm a shooter, and those involved know this; I've used many guns in many configurations (except pistols, but I don't really comment on pistols, either) and I know how they behave. Me being dumb, though, I rolled with it for awhile before I remembered that this is Modacity, and everybody is going to pick and choose what they read and ignore the points that are against them in the hopes that the omission will, in turn, be ignored.
Good job. Still, I love you guys, and I have fun posting here for the most part. If I didn't, I wouldn't keep coming back. I would post more in the Studio if I had things I thought were worth showing off (unlike Bapsi, I don't consider my doodly, 1-minute sketches worth showing off). I'm also not a digital artist, so I don't know that anybody here would care. Judging by the comment record for the crap I have posted, nobody really does, either. No suggestions on how to do better, no interest in what it really is, just the occasional "lol, cool" comment out of pity. So yeah. No point in posting.
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