Quote Originally Posted by Cidel View Post
It's unfortunate,because a lot of that just perfectly described you as soon as you came onto the scene and posts beyond; but I'm not entirely sure if it's just lack of self-awareness to see how hard you project your rampant passive aggressiveness while calling-out others on how you get to interpret theirs. It's also unfortunate that nothing described is apparently sufficient enough for you, so you'll simply hand-wave it as "vague," simply because you disagree with it. But then again, your whole obsession has been to make peevish arguments picking apart unrelated data points nobody was debating and to turn an innocuous statement into something that has to be outlined and explained in great detail to your specific satisfaction. And any genuine questions you may have had were instantly buried under all the backhanded snark and I wasn't avoiding answering your questions as most sounded more rhetorical than anything else. I've already mentioned why and how I found the similarities (there's a couple more you glossed over, but given your proclivity to needing specific detail, probably wouldn't be up to your standards anyway), so what's the point in repeating myself?

My key take away from this whole interaction with you is that you took obvious offense to any implication of plagiarism on behalf of the company for some reason, no matter how flippant, when similarities were pointed out and you obviously take things a whole lot seriously than you pretend not to. The fact that you want to go "point by point" over something you clearly read more into than anybody else here based on how you interpreted my opinions is just a new level of pettiness that only solidifies my observation. You absolutely were actively seeking "gotcha" moments; these past two pages are a clear indication of that with all the fluff and lore you're been running in circles over. Your free to deny it; maybe you genuinely weren't, but you certainly came off as gunning for them. The fact that you think the "I'm better than you" game was my game certainly carries some tone-deafness; who engaged who first?

Saying both there "are way too many people like you" and "I'm not saying that you're actually one of those" are contradictory points, so I'm not sure why even bother mentioning it. Personally, I think less people would be willing to engage with individuals like you, that take comments not even directed at you too far and nearly demand that people explain their opinions to a satisfactory degree for you; and I'm glad I only run into individuals like yourself around here only once or twice during my 10+ years posting here. Misunderstanding certainly do happen, but clearly you decided to try to get a few jabs in your next reply when simply told to carefully reread what I had posted and your freedom to take what you quoted seriously. Don't act as if you were innocent during the early stages either and this is all on me.

Cheers then. I don't owe you any additional answers up to whatever standards you deign aren't beneath you. Coincidentally you're also right about one thing: there really wasn't any real sarcasm in your post; just the overbearing condescension that was always there from the start. So, par the course. "You do you."

au revoir.
You're right, you don't even owe me (or anyone) an answer over anything. But you're confusing my insistence in trying to make you just clearly talk about the topic and stop judging or voicing my supposed thoughts in my stead, with me thinking that you owe me anything or that you should actually do it for some obscure reason. Well, to be fair I actually think that you owe something to anyone, and that's the benefit of the doubt and some respect. Because you don't know if you get the wrong impression because someone's first language isn't English or some similar things. I even apologised for using the wrong method to try and make you stop in that specific post, and I apologise again without "ifs" or "buts".

Anyway, no, I'm not defending SE. I (and many others as well) got in plenty of trouble in the past for criticizing them in these very same discussion boards for actual serious stuff like the changes that the cash shop brought to other areas of the game. This was never about defending the Pictomancer, as you said that you thought since the start, but about me not seeing what you were talking about in regards to any kind of similarities or implications.

Take care.