Is it possible to offend someone...with a macro?

[Ninster]

Yes. Yes it is. Last week I was running Sohr Khai for expert and used my Benediction macro in it, which read "oh s***" in block letters.

10 minutes after leaving the dungeon a GM summons me to the Gaol.

I can sort of see where most examples in this thread can get on people's nerves. Personally, my macros don't call out other players aside from the fact that they're being the target of my Ascend/Raise/Resurrection.

However, THIS particular example worries me.

[Kallera]

I cannot wait for the day when df healers get so ornery as to make macros for cure lamenting about how nothing would get done without them. Cause you know, tanks and dps can't make the green numbers as much as they do the red numbers.

I never knew medica 2 hurt so much.

Anyway, yeah you probably can offend someone with a macro. No need to step on the dead when the mobs are doing it for you.

[Seoulstar]

My raise marco is just simply "Silly, <t>, the floor isn't the boss ♥". Don't think it has offended anyone as of yet. As to the other person. Let's not try to say that the death of a party member is always the healer's fault. A lot of times it's just simply someone who failed to follow a mechanic that resulted in an instant death. Mega death (or whatever its name) for instance. A party member is at 100%, he fails to follow the mechanic. He dies..that's not my fault.

[Zigabar]

People get offended when I go "Pinkamena Pie licks you" so yes, people get offended in this game by the smallest thing.

OR maybe cause I'm a lala *shrugs*

I have a "/em bites <t>'s leg." macro that I use when people /pet me. Sometimes I get /slap as a response. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Eldevern]

Is it possible? Undoubtly, since people don't have the same humor and the written meaning is different from to vocal meaning, because of the lack of "intonation" (and facial expression).

Things that people find fun, some others can think it is rude. That's why smiley have been created : what you write and what people think you mean can be pretty different from the way you really mean it. "Lame" is that kind of words that can sound rude.

And your marco, at first degree, unfortunatly can sound like a criticism, a sarcasm.

[Ametrine]

I don't use raise macros since they all get on my nerves. Not even a case of "this offends me," I hate seeing the chat flooded with useless diatribe.

You can't even double-raise a player. If one has already hit a raise, the game simply stops the cast from happening for the others attempting it, so no MP loss. You just burn swift, which is so snappy, I probably would have even with silly macro text flooding the chat. Use another Cure 2 or Medica 2 for the swift and move on.

Plus, you can see everyone's cast bars over the party list, so if it isn't a swift-rez, you can see you're fellow healer or SMN using it.

[FoxyAreku]

People will get offended by a piece of cheese these days. Just shrug and move on.

You can't even double-raise a player. If one has already hit a raise, the game simply stops the cast from happening for the others attempting it, so no MP loss.

This is not even remotely true by the way.

I wish it was though.

[Clansman2016]

Honestly, it seems these days it's becoming more and more difficult to avoid offending people.

[Tint]

Honestly, it seems these days it's becoming more and more difficult to avoid offending people.

i think that has nothing to do with these days. it's just someone else failed a mechanic and you die and the healer calls you an idiot because you died... that would offend people back in the 1970's the same way.

for example the OT missed the tank-swap, people die in the prison in titan ex, all the people running out of your damage-split mark... or yes, the healer himself messed up and you died...

[Scarletashe]

In todays world you can offend someone by eating an ice cream bar so nothing really surprises me anymore.