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

[Lambdafish]

I never disagreed that Yoshi said they're OK if you don't talk about them, but they're still not legal to use. A lot of people want them to be legal, and don't want to see any pushback on their current level of legality. That's why they attack people who have opinions on parsers that could be interpreted as pushback.

Many many people (you have seen a lot of them in this thread already) see this a different way. You seem to not have raided so have no context on how important and useful, and fun a parser can be in raid. FFLogs itself has added so many extra layers of metagaming to the endgame scene that I would go as far to say that some people wouldn't raid if it didn't exist. And thats on top of tools like FFXIV analyser that use your parse to tell you where you are going wrong in your rotation, which I know for a fact has helped people fix problems they didn't know existed (in itself fixing a fundamental problem this game has).

You say that people who are pro parser are attacking people who are anti parser when you have literally made a thread that does nothing but question the pro-parser crowd and call them bitter and cynical for using one, you then go onto have an attitude of sheer ignorance and an unwillingness to listen to why people disagree with you, and constantly flip flopping on "what you meant". Your thread alone shows that its the parser crowd who gets attacked by the anti-parser crowd because occasionally someone misuses one, and we are all labelled as villains.

So lets make it easy for you, the argument of someone who is pro-parser is "Parsers help understand my job better, adds more depth to the game, and allow me to push myself to a higher level of play. Harassment is still bad". Why do you have a problem with someone who holds this view?