Quote Originally Posted by Avoidy View Post
OP: "why are people so angry here??? chill out u guys"
Also OP, when Aveyond criticizes his favorite game:


Just admit it, OP. Sometimes people here earn a little disrespect, and it's really that simple. I'll just say it: This place is full of some of the most annoying selfish irritating and also objectively incorrect people I've ever communicated with in this entire game. Like... no, sometimes "both sides" don't have a point. Sometimes the people here are just blatantly incorrect, or they'll hold "opinions" that are totally unreasonable, and when you ask them to elaborate a little, they just reveal how selfish and childlike they really are. I toe the line in my posts and even I find it hard to not go over it, but I seriously can't help it sometimes. People who barely read your posts, engage in bad faith with bad faith arguments regularly, and behave like they're paid company shills or parodies of the "got mine" attitude don't deserve your good will or your polite engagement. To use your example: A guy on here just asked for more sitting options and his thread's blowing up with people for whom the crux of their argument is essentially "I wouldn't want to use this optional feature because I think sitting like a woman is gross, so I don't think anyone else should be able to either." There it is. "I don't like this optional thing, so nobody else should have it." That's like, the prominent attitude on display here in just about every thread. Both sides don't have a point there. One side is being petulant, childlike, and ridiculous. That's like 80% of the people here. It's a reason these forums are a meme on every other XIV platform.
This. I've been lurking the forums for about a month or two now and most "discussions" are never that. Person A makes a post. Either Person B comes and refutes it with a good response and Person A suddenly starts to attack Person B with ad hominem or Person B responds with the ad hominem then it degenerates from there. It becomes a headache to read a somewhat interesting perspective on, let's say for example patch 6.3 story, that turns into several pages of people just dogpiling the person rather than talking about what's being said.