Hey Dead Winter

[Dead Winter]

That's great. But then any meaningful conversation has been flushed and the topic has turned to semi-trolling/flaming, which can be fun too .

I am a thinker, analytical and argumentative. It's who I am. I'm not an intellectual and I don't place myself above anyone. I just loathe blatant stupidity/ignorance and that's when I start to get a little condescending. I literally regret that these people are alive. That's where the tone comes in, and that'll never change.

I can be a very cold person, bordering on downright meanness sometimes. I'm a virgo, what can I say? Retribution and comeuppance are things I relish seeing happen.

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

i think this thread should now be devoted to discussion about Destroyer 666.

 

[Swabs]

I was always under the impression that one of the skills of an analytical "thinker" is the ability to express a point effectively and concisely. So as not to bore the fuck out of their audience.

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

what does that have to do with Destroyer 666?

 

[~Lynn~]

words words words words I'm a douche nozzle, some more words, damn, what a waste of the two seconds it took to take him off my ignore list. Oh well. *shrug*

 

[Dead Winter]

Yes, because the impression you have always been under is a blanket umbrella for all of humanity and is the be-all, end-all for systematically categorizing every single person's behavior in nice, tiny little boxes. I think you are mistaking "effective speaker" for "analytical thinker".

I've never claimed to be an effective speaker.

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

stop going off topic, guys.

 

[Dead Winter]

words words words words I'm a douche nozzle, some more words, damn, what a waste of the two seconds it took to take him off my ignore list. Oh well. *shrug*

Wow, you got all the way down towards the end of the post? Bravo.

I must really get under your skin to actually put me on ignore instead of just ignoring what I say.

 

[~Lynn~]

They play Sunday eh? hmm.. if I blow through there Friday is about all I can do, bummer.

 

[Swabs]

Sorry but I fail to see how being able to manipulate the English language in an efficient manner rather than simply using more words for the sake of using more words is a bad thing. There's a pretty big difference between elaborate and long-winded.

 

[Dead Winter]

stop going off topic, guys.

The topic's about me and I'm dodging all the spears being chucked. I don't see how it's going off topic.

 

[Captain Beard]

 

[~Lynn~]

lol

 

[Dead Winter]

Sorry but I fail to see how being able to manipulate the English language in an efficient manner rather than simply using more words for the sake of using more words is a bad thing. There's a pretty big difference between elaborate and long-winded.

Oh I'm definitely long-winded...not denying that.

Here's a clue people: I'm not John. I didn't ask for your advice that you have taken upon yourselves to freely give. It's a forum, so I will respectfully agree/disagree/retort as I see fit. The fact is, I don't want to change who I am or how I express myself, much less on a message board.

The fact that we're all here discussing this means that we ALL obviously don't have better things to do, so the criticism, while respectfully taken, should also be turned inward toward yourselves, albeit maybe in different aspects.

I've molded myself from day one in my life and followed my own path, and my decisions have enabled me to live a fairly interesting life by my standards, and I am genuinely happy. Not saying I don't appreciate you guys taking an interest, but it's not really that big of a deal and frankly, who are you to criticize anyone else? When one of you who freely give criticism to others decides to do something noteworthy, please let me know because Derek is pretty much the only one of you who regularly criticize that I would want to actually listen to and sit down and possibly learn something.

Hasn't the US suffered enough from people dictating to others how they should live their lives when it wasn't asked? It's a much smaller scale, but I fail to see the difference in principle. Some of you are way more fucked up than I am, yet my posting on an internet forum *must* be corrected, according to you. It's done wonders for our reputation around the world, why not continue in our everyday lives? Great plan.

 

[Karmic]

i'mma chuck you with my spear

 

[Dead Winter]

Are you saying you're a spear chucker?

 

[Lordlucid]

I like you Dead Winter, I just merely skim through your posts and find the key points you've made.
/2cents.

 

[Dead Winter]

Yeah, and I like you too, man! You know what? I'd skim through my posts as well and do exactly what you do if I were you, too! I post some really long shit sometimes, and if you're distracted by something and don't have the time to focus 100% on some of my rants, it's best just to skim through and go on.

When I make those really long posts, I'm not posting what I had for lunch. I have something I need to get off my chest and give my honest opinion on, throw it out there, see if anyone agrees/disagrees, and move on. It's not as big of a deal as some people here make it out to be.

I look at it like this: if I'm going to post sentences on the internet, it's going to be something I have an interest/passion in. If not, I'll just skip the thread entirely, which is what I usually do.

Getting to know people outside of real life frightens me a bit. I don't post many pics of myself on here (think I've only done it a handful of times in the beginning), I don't comment very much on people's pictures, and I would be VERY hesitant to actually meet someone in person from this board just for the sake of meeting them and not meeting at a show or something. When you do that, it then becomes real, and this is my escape; I don't need reality on the internet.

I enjoy being semi-anonymous; I can say what I want and others can say what they want and we can all continue in this fashion without having to bring in real-life drama like "when I met you you were cool but now you're a dick and you're nothing like you used to be blah blah blah". As if meeting someone over the course of 24 hours is going to give you complete insight into who they are as a person.

When i play WoW, I don't want to meet my guild in real life. When I post on the internet, I don't want to travel halfway across the country to meet someone I probably wouldn't travel around the block to hang out with. I enjoy my freedom and my space, but at the same time I try to be respectful of other people. I can be fucking evil, but only if you cross me. I don't like when people are mean for the sake of being mean, even if it's just the internet. That gives me a bad impression of their character, and I normally wouldn't piss on them to put them out if they were on fire if they treat other people in that way. James was a perfect example.

 

[Swabs]

Why is this now about meeting people from the internet? The last three paragraphs of that post have nothing to do with the thread topic. And even if you are somehow trying to use "the internet isn't real." as a reason for posting excessively long posts, you're still going off on a wild tangent there.

 

[Captain Beard]

You want anonymity, there's this fetid pit called 4chan waiting for you.

I do agree on hesitancy with meeting *some* people on the board, but you'd be surprised how cool some are face to face. Some, granted, I'd punch in the face upon introduction. Or glare at them until they felt realllly uncomfortable.

...

I was going to say something insightful but was distracted by an itch and forgot now.

I'm also morbidly curious to see you in rage mode now... nothing intrigues me more than when people claim they have a disconnect point where they let a tiny sociopath out to use the keyboard.