Counterpoint to all the Debbie Downers lately...

[Nizzi]

There was a time where I let the forums get me riled up, and in the grand scheme of things, it simply isn't worth the energy.

Do you seriously think that engaging in pointless credentialism with things like "i'm in the 1% of law schools in my country" or "i'm a multimillion dollar business owner in a 16 year happy marriage" is the mark of someone who definitely isn't riled up and mad at the internet? lmfao

[ZephyrMenodora]

It may or may not be true, though even if it is I've always considered it to be in rather poor taste to try and use one's real world experience as a bludgeon in an effort to 'win' an argument over a video game of all things.

MMO's attract people from all over the world from many different backgrounds, cultures, countries and belief systems. I'm sure if everybody revealed the 'who' and 'what' behind the poster then there would be quite a lot of interesting surprises. As it happens, though, most of us are a bit more cautious and tactful so don't feel the need to make real or false declarations about our personal lives.

I admittedly did get a good laugh out of it, though, because it's an excellent example of the specific kind of passive aggressive smug that portions of this game's community embrace with zero self awareness.

I've only brought up these points when people insult me without knowing a thing about me. I have a great life and a lot of accomplishments. Probaly more than those who insult me here. I don't care if I sound smug. Seems like people care more about that than how people aggressively insult and dismiss other posters, or pretend they can't comprehend posts that really have no difficult-to-understand content, simply because they disagree.

Also Hunky, I know you are reading and only saw your comment as it was quoted - you missed my 17 year anniversary! If you wan't to send me an in-game gift, I'm on Zalera.

Do you seriously think that engaging in pointless credentialism with things like "i'm in the 1% of law schools in my country" or "i'm a multimillion dollar business owner in a 16 year happy marriage" is the mark of someone who definitely isn't riled up and mad at the internet? lmfao

I think you underestimate about how easy it is to not really care what a certain quality of poster here thinks of you. I tend to get quoted and descended upon very often in these forums, it's all old hat to me.

[Boblawblah]

All too true. Sadly at this point even in this thread I can only read about half the posts, given how many people I needed to block. That said, it's quite nice to focus on those who can communicate their thoughts without insulting others.

There was a time where I let the forums get me riled up, and in the grand scheme of things, it simply isn't worth the energy.

little ublock origin tip if you use it. The line "forum.square-enix.com##li:has-text(is on your)" without quotes added to your filters will remove all posts from users in your ignore list. You won't see a massive list of white anymore in threads like these, just the posts from users that aren't blocked.

[ZephyrMenodora]

little ublock origin tip if you use it. The line "forum.square-enix.com##li:has-text(is on your)" without quotes added to your filters will remove all posts from users in your ignore list. You won't see a massive list of white anymore in threads like these, just the posts from users that aren't blocked.

Thank you so much!

[Boblawblah]

it's not perfect, you might want to use "This message is hidden because" instead in the brackets. As it is, if someone says that exact phrase, it'll be blocked lol. it was a rush job, i haven't messed around to make it better yet. Basically whatever is inside those brackets will be filtered out.

[Kickwars]

I see the "We" eluded you pretty hard there.

Maybe if you did a better job reading you would not have missed it.

I'm sorry but that "we" is a total cop-out. None of you seem interested in actually changing your behavior. And none of you ever will. It's a useless lamentation to cast yourself as someone above it all when you're just as trapped in the mire as everyone.

Of course you'd say that.

j/k, you're right. It's very difficult to get any sort of nuance on internet forums. You have to actively ignore those being antagonistic while trying to respond to those that aren't. It gets messy very quickly. I've started just blocking everyone that gets that way. That said, I do the same thing, I can be just as antagonistic, hence blocking people will hopefully make me less so.

And all you guys are doing here is to just block, block, block. Of course seeing no triggering materials will make you less antagonistic but it doesn't solve the key flaw in your personality: that you lot can't handle disagreements and resort to antagonism, but at the same time hate antagonism. Your only solution is to create an echo chamber for yourself. Weak and fragile. Pathetic creatures.

[Kaurhz]

I'm sorry but that "we" is a total cop-out. None of you seem interested in actually changing your behavior. And none of you ever will. It's a useless lamentation to cast yourself as someone above it all when you're just as trapped in the mire as everyone.



And all you guys are doing here is to just block, block, block. Of course seeing no triggering materials will make you less antagonistic but it doesn't solve the key flaw in your personality: that you lot can't handle disagreements and resort to antagonism, but at the same time hate antagonism. Your only solution is to create an echo chamber for yourself. Weak and fragile. Pathetic creatures.

You're welcome to write whatever fanfic you want, really. However, I'm pretty sure I have been fairly transparent with regard to this. This is just simply the environment this place has cast upon itself, and everyone is equally responsible for that, including both of us.

So whilst you may want to do this self-same charade (which you ironically called me out for yesterday)

but it doesn't solve the key flaw in your personality: that you lot can't handle disagreements and resort to antagonism

The reality is that you're also no different from absolutely everyone else on this forum when you do the self-same thing as highlighted below.

Weak and fragile. Pathetic creatures.

If you think what you've been doing is anything different from what everyone else has been doing (bar your obsessive behaviour with stalking peoples' post history) , then you're no less a hypocrite when compared to anyone else.

[CNitsah]

The real problem is that people that see the currents problems acts as if everything was shit in the game while those who haven't noticed them (it's hard to notice if you're not up to date with the content) act as if there was no problem. Yes, overall the state of the game pretty good, but still EW patch are pretty much disappointing, especially compared to those of ShB. MSQ feels more and more filler, several story line were cut off (even if the content is still technically there), and the lack of a proper long running content during the patch is strongly felt.

[Kickwars]

The reality is that you're also no different from absolutely everyone else on this forum.

Ha! I embrace the antagonism unlike you.

[aveyond-dreams]

I just want content to do in game why is this so hard