Bullying on FFXIV

[Jaimie]

I am guessing that is not your main character, since you have only 1 level 50. no one needs help with an AF run since you only need 4 to enter any dungeon. Do a quick check, "need any help with a CC speed run" or "Need any help with Garuda" would have been more appropriate and you could have figured it out with a simple search of the lodestone. that is how i figured out you were posting from a secondary character you created last month.

how about you stop hiding behind your alts and actually post with your main account.

Bullying is a hot topic issue right now, and all of you who have been watching oprah instead of working have had your sensitivity overcharged. You think that any behavior you do not like is "bullying" and you think that it somehow needs to have repercussions that far exceed the crime. The popular anti-bullying campaigns and programs that are distributed in the public schools of the United States actually increase the rate of so called bullying, mainly by glorifying the victim.

The situation is not that someone is being physically harmed, the situation is that they have been pandered to all of their lives and told that they are a special snowflake. now someone tells them that they do not want to help them or be friends, or there is competition for limited resources and the knee-jerk reaction is to call that person a bully, garner support by closed mindedness and non though processes because once you call someone a bully, you have painted a scarlet letter upon them and all of your like minded people who will not think about the situation will automatically join you in your chorus, effectively making you the bully. it is the tyranny of the weak.


also: nom nom nom, this is yummy

Lets leave RL bullying out of this for now.

Did I mention that I took a yr off from this POS game, and came back to a different server, to re-learn it.
I was on SELBINA origionaly, then was kidnapped, and taken to Ridil. My main is on Ridil, and I am only on Balmung to re learn the game, and stay away from the retards and religious fanatics on Sargantas.

Anyway, on to the subject of in-game bullying:

I can't comment on the OPs situation, as I do not know the details. Since coming back to the game, the only precieved instances of bullying I have witnessed was a shout in uldah a while back. So let's go with a hypothetical situation for now.

Bob is a healer in a party
party goes to a dungeon
party wipes
Joe who was in party returns to uldah and /sh Bob you fckn NOOB where were my heals
the Joe does /sh welcome to my blacklist NOOB
then Joe tells his LS what a NOOB Bob is
soon most of the server thinks Bob is a bad healer and won't invite him to parties

Comment ?

[Gramul]

This is actually horrible advice. All that will happen is the bullied person will take the anger out on someone else who doesn't deserve it. Thus the cycle continues~

Not my problem.
If they're smart they'll ignore him too and it won't be their problem either.
If you don't feed the beast, it will crawl in circles screaming and crying for attention till it withers up and dies, begging for the only twisted love it understands. Then as you oversee its rotting corpse, you can chuckle in quiet glee.

[Mujen]

Well.. i think Bob's kid was crying and he got wife aggro and had to go afk for a short while, unfortunately there is no PAUSE button... so Bob wants to say screw you guys! and Joe is an elitist anyway!

[Huginn]

lol, PUGs? no wonder you cant get anything done


om nomnom

[KenpachiZaaraki]

Yawns~ /em stretches

[Resheph]

Oh for the love of--really? REALLY??!

[Futan]

Not my problem.
If they're smart they'll ignore him too and it won't be their problem either.
If you don't feed the beast, it will crawl in circles screaming and crying for attention till it withers up and dies, begging for the only twisted love it understands. Then as you oversee its rotting corpse, you can chuckle in quiet glee.

So you believe that creating more cyber-bullies is an effective method of stopping cyber-bullying? If what is said angers you, you should take it out on the bully. Not on your family, friends or another player.

[Gramul]

So you believe that creating more cyber-bullies is an effective method of stopping cyber-bullying? If what is said angers you, you should take it out on the bully. Not on your family, friends or another player.

It won't create more idiots if you don't let it anger you.
If it does, grab a stress ball, write an angry letter and don't save it, paint something angry, exercise (stretch first, I literally can't emphasize this enough), dance, scream into a pillow, talk it out with someone you trust to listen. You can emote in healthy ways that don't make you into an ass.

[Futan]

It won't create more idiots if you don't let it anger you.
If it does, grab a stress ball, write an angry letter and don't save it, paint something angry, exercise (stretch first, I literally can't emphasize this enough), dance, scream into a pillow, talk it out with someone you trust to listen. You can emote in healthy ways that don't make you into an ass.

Except for the "don't let it anger you" part, I can't say I disagree. People obviously don't control what makes them angry or else no one would ever be. My personal opinion is confronting the person who angers you is the best way to go about it, but that's an opinion and there isn't a truly right way of going about it.

[Jaimie]

Well.. i think Bob's kid was crying and he got wife aggro and had to go afk for a short while, unfortunately there is no PAUSE button... so Bob wants to say screw you guys! and Joe is an elitist anyway!

LoL


WTF my LoL is too short a message
this is fckn retarded, how much do I have to write before I can post
is this enough ?
should I write more,
how about a song ?

A very good friend of mine
Told me something the other day
I'd like to pass it on to you,
Cause I believe what he said to be true
He said:
(CHORUS) We're here for a good time
Not a long time (not a long time)
So have a good time
The sun can't shine everyday
And the sun is shinin,
In this rainy city,
And the sun is shinin,
Ooh isn't a pity?
That every year has it's share of tears,
Every now and then it's gotta rain
(CHORUS)
And the sun is shinin,
In this rainy city,
And the sun is shinin,
Ooh isn't a pity?
That every year has it's share of tears,
Every now and then it's gotta rain
(REPEAT CHORUS X 5)