If running a parser makes you cynical and depressed, why do it?

[SerLuke]

This "anti-paser" crowd likes to portrait people who uses parsers as people who'll yell at anyone who isnt pulling at the very least purple parses! But thats simply not true - I cant recall if I've ever seen someone being called out in DF over a parse at all, but I know that anything we share in our FC or amongst friends isnt "Oh, this samurai is only pulling a green parse, what a noob!" but rather "...guys, I have this samurai whos pulling something like 2k... that would have been okay-ish at the end of HW, right?"
In my experience is far more likely to run into someone who is severly underperforming, to a point when it feels to me that one can say hes not meeting the reasonable expectation we should have of someone whos doing max-level content than to meet someone who'll throw a fit over a BLM dealing 14k instead of 17k.

I'm not anti-parser, I'm anti people using a parser to beat people over the head with it to have some smug sense of superiority in a video game and obsessing over numbers. I've had good experiences with people uses parers, a friend of mine offered to help me clear Titania and Innocence ex even though I wasn't that much interested in them but they helped me with call outs and I got through it. Afterwards they went through some of the stuff they saw in my FF logs and politely showed me some areas why I could improve.

You guys are welcome to live in your little bubble where everyone is nice and nothing matters, so you dont need to care - about your performance, about your teammate, about job-balance... bursting this bubble is totally possible without parsers, though. You need to close your eyes to way more than ACT.

And there it is. I remember a thread here where people were talking about being patient with their teammates in their party because they might be having a bad day, or they might be sick, or maybe they have a disability, many, many people replied saying such people are a burden and shouldn't be playing or should only play with friends, lets be honest its not about you caring about your teammates, its about you getting done asap with a dungeon. I work 8 hours a day, drive typically 45 minutes both ways to and form work, yeah I love when EX roullete only takes 15 minutes but I can deal with a 25 minute run, its not that much of a freaking big deal I'm not that important to go on about people wasting my time.

And here's the thing, I've been the Paladin duoing bosses down from 50%+ with a DPS because the rest of the party wiped, I don't use that as a reason to look down on others though, I feel a sense of accomplishment sure but I'm not going to go on about how the other people were bad or sucked.