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Idiocy at its finest.
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If time is moving backwards then the holocaust hasn't happened yet. Checkmate Israel.
I think you are the most ridiculously pretentious dick I have ever encountered; congratulations, and carry on! =D.
No, being pretentious is too close to lying, which he is incapable of doing.
SnapSlav
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A fantastic display of not having any clue what the word "pretentious" even means, other than that it's often used in insulting fashion. When the recipient isn't pretentious, just being insulting doesn't make the comment apropos.
As for WHY I made that disclaimer, I felt it was perfectly obvious: To quote a line from a great movie, "You gotta stick to your principles, mate."
Yeah, but why do you think anyone would care about your principles, especially when it comes to completely irrelevant stuff like if you like giving rads to a post or not?
Y'know, it does make you sound a teensy bit... what's the word... pretentious, was it that one? Dunno, you're obviously smarter than me, so whatever you say, champ.
Y'know, it does make you sound a teensy bit... what's the word... pretentious, was it that one? Dunno, you're obviously smarter than me, so whatever you say, champ.
Of course it's impossible for you to even see how applicable the word "pretentious" is, your giant self-important ego wouldn't allow that.
Case in point: you somehow felt the need to justify your clicking "like" on someone calling me asshole. Reality check: nobody gives a shit about your personal principles, your "firm-stance against the culture of passive-aggressively radding 'you're poopy' posts". Nobody. You don't like me (I guess I called you out on your bullshit once or something? Whatever, I don't remember exactly), you saw someone call me an asshole*, you clicked give rads. Everything else is just self-important bullshit ("a constructed criticism towards someone well deserving of it", hahaha) for the benefit of yourself, stroking your ego. "Sheesh, look at the plebs and their culture of passive-aggressively radding 'you're poopy' posts. Of course *I* would never stoop so low as to participate in such tasteless shenanigans except now I will but I'll make a huge fuss about it, dressing it up with many big words so everyone can see how above-it-all I am."
You think I'm a "deserving tool", fine, just call me a deserving tool. Jerkface. See? It's that easy.
*A post I had interpreted as nothing but a friendly jab, by the way. Do you even know what thread he was talking about? Where exactly is the "constructed criticism towards someone well deserving of it"?
Edit: Ninja'd by Hass. What he said.
Now wait a second, you don't even know which of the posts he radded he's defending. There are, I think, three more on page six... None of which involve proverbially bitch-slapping a deserving tool, really, so I guess misunderstanding an in-joke from tO is still closest...
I am a majestic butterfly, look at the chaos I have created with a single flap of my wings.
SnapSlav
NMA's local DotA fanatic
The more you say I have a self-inflating ego doesn't make it any more true. The more you insist my behavior was pretentious likewise has no impact on its veracity. Those things are entirely independent of your perspectives, which, thankfully, you finally VOICED a bit, rather than simply running your mouth in a self-congratulatory fashion you're so fond of, and as a result I now KNOW where your mistake lies. I excused myself because I'm so above it all, you think? Apparently you're desperate to read between the lines to the point you can't see that all that lies there... is empty space. There is no hidden subtext, I'm a direct individual, and when someone irks me, I don't hide behind passive aggression and snark remarks and white knuckling and so on and so on. I outright state my qualms, and that's that.
When I say, point blank, that I'm against a certain practice, and I say, point blank, that we should stick to our principles, quite obviously, ANY action that may be construed as said practice I'm against, taken by me, should be inexcusable. As such, I IMMEDIATELY apologized for it. Or did you perchance interpret my sincerity for sarcasm, as you're so fond of? Next, I illustrated the differences between the two behaviors, and why I THINK that makes them different, despite the fact that I still see them as similar enough to warrant my apology. This is not excusing doing the same thing I condemn... far from it.
Meanwhile, you're all too busy circle-jerking one another because it gives you the lulls. You never bother considering things like discourse, or questions such as "what did you mean" or "what are you saying" or ANY questions, really. You just come to your immediate conclusions, and then you run with it. Whoever you target is targeted for good, and you share in your glee of that by attacking them with company, then giggle together like the silly schoolchildren you're acting like. Going about your behavior, and in a TINY space AFTERWARD claiming to be outright and direct by lobbing an insult and claiming you don't hide behind pretenses, doesn't do away with the previous, noxious behavior. What I apologized for was something not at all the same as a behavior I oppose YET which I recognize is, sadly, not too unlike it, either. As such, rather than be a hypocrite, I owned up to that possibility. That ain't pretentious. It's me swallowing my bitter pills, a phrase which refers more literally to what's known as "humility".
But gathering in your corners and determining the will of an individual** outside of actual investigative discussion and trolling them all the while is the somehow more respectable course of action?
**Referring to more than just me, since doubtless without an addendum this point would be too obscure to notice.
Now, as is typical of political maneuvering and posturing behavior, all of this nonsense was to obfuscate the true message of a post, by totally ignoring the meat of the post and instead focusing on an extraneous parcel of it, misinterpreting it, and twisting it into an easy target, then proceeding to bash the ever loving christing shit out of that target until it's nothing more than pulp. This has all been one big massive strawman, and it's obvious to anyone who so much as observes. You don't even need to be very keen to notice. The whole point of my post was and yet remains that all this attacking of Trey is both semi-warranted and yet gravely misplaced and largely misunderstood, and that it's highly unnecessary. The guy says some ridiculous shit and everybody pounces on him for it... That's just pathetic.
You COULD just as easily highlight the "Wait, WHAT did you say?" moments and then let it slide, cause really, that's all you need to do... highlight it. You COULD just as easily not comment on it at all. But no, dogpile time. I hope he doesn't give in to "letting himself be banned" temptation, and I hope you people will learn to let up, cause that's the only way any DECENT resolution will be had. You change someone's mind by respecting it and understanding that it forms its mistaken thoughts just as easily as you formed yours, and you calmly and rationally talk things over with them. Not by staying in your corner lobbing your pot shots. That doesn't get anyone anywhere.
When I say, point blank, that I'm against a certain practice, and I say, point blank, that we should stick to our principles, quite obviously, ANY action that may be construed as said practice I'm against, taken by me, should be inexcusable. As such, I IMMEDIATELY apologized for it. Or did you perchance interpret my sincerity for sarcasm, as you're so fond of? Next, I illustrated the differences between the two behaviors, and why I THINK that makes them different, despite the fact that I still see them as similar enough to warrant my apology. This is not excusing doing the same thing I condemn... far from it.
Meanwhile, you're all too busy circle-jerking one another because it gives you the lulls. You never bother considering things like discourse, or questions such as "what did you mean" or "what are you saying" or ANY questions, really. You just come to your immediate conclusions, and then you run with it. Whoever you target is targeted for good, and you share in your glee of that by attacking them with company, then giggle together like the silly schoolchildren you're acting like. Going about your behavior, and in a TINY space AFTERWARD claiming to be outright and direct by lobbing an insult and claiming you don't hide behind pretenses, doesn't do away with the previous, noxious behavior. What I apologized for was something not at all the same as a behavior I oppose YET which I recognize is, sadly, not too unlike it, either. As such, rather than be a hypocrite, I owned up to that possibility. That ain't pretentious. It's me swallowing my bitter pills, a phrase which refers more literally to what's known as "humility".
But gathering in your corners and determining the will of an individual** outside of actual investigative discussion and trolling them all the while is the somehow more respectable course of action?
**Referring to more than just me, since doubtless without an addendum this point would be too obscure to notice.
Now, as is typical of political maneuvering and posturing behavior, all of this nonsense was to obfuscate the true message of a post, by totally ignoring the meat of the post and instead focusing on an extraneous parcel of it, misinterpreting it, and twisting it into an easy target, then proceeding to bash the ever loving christing shit out of that target until it's nothing more than pulp. This has all been one big massive strawman, and it's obvious to anyone who so much as observes. You don't even need to be very keen to notice. The whole point of my post was and yet remains that all this attacking of Trey is both semi-warranted and yet gravely misplaced and largely misunderstood, and that it's highly unnecessary. The guy says some ridiculous shit and everybody pounces on him for it... That's just pathetic.
You COULD just as easily highlight the "Wait, WHAT did you say?" moments and then let it slide, cause really, that's all you need to do... highlight it. You COULD just as easily not comment on it at all. But no, dogpile time. I hope he doesn't give in to "letting himself be banned" temptation, and I hope you people will learn to let up, cause that's the only way any DECENT resolution will be had. You change someone's mind by respecting it and understanding that it forms its mistaken thoughts just as easily as you formed yours, and you calmly and rationally talk things over with them. Not by staying in your corner lobbing your pot shots. That doesn't get anyone anywhere.
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This thread still delivers. Two pretentious dickheads arguing over what pretentious means and another pretentious asshole commenting on said debate.
To clarify I'm the asshole in that sentence. Also, Snap why does being pretentious offend you so much?
Why do you insist on being so goddamn serious about everything? This "poopy post" shit is getting a bit old. Of course the site is filled with shit posts. The site has gone to shit. Expect more shit in the future.
It is easy to see when someone is being full of themselves. If more and more people begin to point it out, it lends credence to the theory. Snap, you act rather pretentious, as in boasting of your IQ in debates when otherwise not warranted, simply because someone points out an error that you fervently stuck to as accurate.
Not only that but you speak or rather type in such a manner that is really long winded. When someone asks you what your favorite color is and you respond with a 1000 word essay, something really begins to feel off. I find that most people can't accept criticism. Most people will fight to the death to prove they are right. This might be one of those cases.
Edit: I changed fuckwit to dickhead for accuracy. Also, yes you didn't get the joke directed towards Buxbaum that you radded to spite him. The very thing you say people should not do.
Edit: Don't rad my post Bux your hair sucks. Ha!
To clarify I'm the asshole in that sentence. Also, Snap why does being pretentious offend you so much?
Why do you insist on being so goddamn serious about everything? This "poopy post" shit is getting a bit old. Of course the site is filled with shit posts. The site has gone to shit. Expect more shit in the future.
It is easy to see when someone is being full of themselves. If more and more people begin to point it out, it lends credence to the theory. Snap, you act rather pretentious, as in boasting of your IQ in debates when otherwise not warranted, simply because someone points out an error that you fervently stuck to as accurate.
Not only that but you speak or rather type in such a manner that is really long winded. When someone asks you what your favorite color is and you respond with a 1000 word essay, something really begins to feel off. I find that most people can't accept criticism. Most people will fight to the death to prove they are right. This might be one of those cases.
Edit: I changed fuckwit to dickhead for accuracy. Also, yes you didn't get the joke directed towards Buxbaum that you radded to spite him. The very thing you say people should not do.
Edit: Don't rad my post Bux your hair sucks. Ha!
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I must apologize for this, because it's rather contradictory to my firm-stance against the culture of passive-aggressively radding "you're poopy" posts. However, I felt in this particular instance, it was both hard to resist, as well as a post that wasn't simply instigating nor inflammatory and was a constructed criticism towards someone well deserving of it. So while I do regret succumbing to that all-too-familiar urge to "join the club" and show your support for someone bitch slapping a deserving tool, at least it wasn't nearly as bad as far, far worse offenses of as much as has been previously displayed... not incidentally BY those same aforementioned deserving tools.
Unnecessary public apology now out of the way; well said, nice and enjoyable comment, and carry on! =D
As for these...
Yeah, I'm against calling people assholes and we should always stick to our principles but you're a still an asshole. I think it's different when I do it because you deserve to be called an asshole. See how I immediately apologized for it, even though I'm not even doing the same thing I condemn... far from it?
I just love how you, of all people, accuse others of self-congratulation. Every sentence of your posts looks like it was thoroughly masturbated to before it was posted.
You're just trying to disguise your hubris as humility, which utterly fails because you just keep reminding us how great it is what you do. You're very eager to point out that you immediately apologized even though you think you actually did nothing wrong.
That last sentence doesn't even make sense on any level. A bitter pill to swallow means a situation that is unpleasant but must be endured. It doesn't refer to humility in any way, least of all literally. What the hell does "more literally" even mean? More literally compared to what? You're just stringing words together that may sound fancy but the end result doesn't make any damn sense. Still not seeing the pretentiousness?
Here's a question I asked before that you never bothered to consider:
Do you even know what thread he (Atomkilla) was talking about? Where exactly is the "constructed criticism towards someone well deserving of it"?
Prediction: You will keep on ignoring this question because admitting you supported a post that doesn't mean what you assumed would clash with your perception of yourself.
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Self fulfilling prophecy. Come to think of it I masturbate to my posts quite often.
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At least people are posting I guess.
This thread certainly knows how to hold true to its title.
And I'd be immensely cross if some mod decided to vat it.
And I'd be immensely cross if some mod decided to vat it.
So when I'm playing Rome: Total War and I see one of my cities start being real uppity I withdraw my armies from the city so they have a full on rebellion and then once I retake the city I order my army to slaughter most of population. I mean the game pretty much tells you that it's a good decision and will help strengthen your empire. I don't want to go around genociding but if you get in the way of my Empire(Reich) you are going to pay the price.
Akratus
Bleep bloop.
I prefer Medieval 2. But yeah, I abuse the extermination option too. Especially cities with a big heretical population. Stupid religious unrest.
Extermination is not abuse.