What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[Midareyukki]

Brinne is one of the most intelligent, articulate posters in this thread. This sort of behavior isn't making you look as cool as you think it is.

Ah yes. So intelligent that she replies with a string of question marks instead of expressing intent and making herself look utterly simple.

I don't care about being cool. I care about people telling me what the problem is so we can work it out. But if you do nothing but go "what" at me, then yeah, it's your own personal problem. I don't speak "whatever".

Or are you trying to go for cookie points to score with her? Because I had to repeat the problem with her sentence about twice now. And if you two haven't figured out what the problem is yet, then it really does show she's not as smart as you idolize her to be.

Also "articulate". Right, and I've seen my 3 year old niece produce a much more congruent sentence than "??????????????".

"Being cool", pfft. Sis, do you think? My signature already invalidates any coolness. I'm not the one pursuing something in lieu of others. I just want to engage in conversation like everyone else, and not be met with a string of characters. If I did that to you, you'd think I were stupid. And that's what I did.

Once again, context. That was never what I was saying and obviously not at all what I believe. It's just that, as a reflection of the specific discussion that was happening prior, it goes both ways. Some flaws are subjective. Some aren't. That's why I said I don't really care at all if someone dislikes Emet-Selch, but if they start reaching to make strange comparisons or illogical arguments based on that dislike, that is when I'll speak up. The same applies to G'raha. All the things you wrote about him when you jumped in? I don't even disagree with any of them. I could wall of text about the issues I have with the way his character was handled, and how I would have liked it to be done differently. I do disagree that viewing G'raha's affections positively and Magnai's negatively reflects a double standard or hypocrisy.

Except that is what you wrote. And being so absolute about it was the problem. Because you say "and you're allowed to say that", but you also say "the flaws people pointed out are subjective". It really didn't sound like you were saying "not all flaws pointed out are valid", but more like "all criticism isn't valid".

Which given the nature of this thread and half the stuff I've seen, really is a regurgitated sentiment that just shuts people down of any kind, be they right or be they wrong. Or be they just plain weird. Still. Forgive me, I did misinterpret what you were going for.

Also, next time, try not to reply with question marks like an alien? Not everyone gets intention off a string of punctuation. And if after me telling you what I was warning you in your statement twice didn't resolve it, then I'm sorry, but you're not doing yourself any favours either.

Perhaps I should have said "some people" instead of "a lot of people?" I can agree with that, and I'll try to be more careful in the future.

That would have helped, yes.