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[August]

Hi friends,

So, I'm pretty new here. I started in November. I'm a level 56 enchanter that groups with people from all guilds.

This forum section is pretty much the most active. Everytime I read it, I see the same people yelling at each other and saying 'your guild is bad' or 'you are a basement dweller' or 'you are spinning again' or 'this dude is RMT'ing!'

And the thing is, I never see anyone be like oh, hey guys, I'm sorry. You're right. You guys are constantly just berating each other. No one actually listens. No one really debates, there's just constant name calling.

So, I'd like to dedicate this thread as a place where we point out times and/or threads where your mind was really changed about a topic. I want to see real stories about real

[Hurley]

you are a basement dweller

[August]

people and real situations where you said, hey, this dude is right and I was wrong.

Please no fake stories or stupid shit.

Also, not being able to edit your posts here sucks ass, as evidenced by an unfinished title and two posts.

[Ashintar]

I used to think mages were horrible... then I met Pimecone.

[August]

I used to think mages were horrible... then I met Pimecone.

Best ever

[India]

Hi friends,

So, I'm pretty new here. I started in November.

November 2010 ?

[August]

November 2010 ?


Nope. I made my enchanter on my join date and then had to quit for personal reasons. I did not come back to this server until November 2012. I achieved level 12 in two days of playing my first time thru.

[OforOppression]

Sometimes, I dress my halfling rogue as a druid and advertise for ports outside of tunnel

[Ephirith]

I've yet to come up with a completely reasonable counterargument to Hasbinbad's hatred of the military without it being contaminated by emotional considerations.

I made a schadenfraude thread about an objectivist cancer patient who couldn't pay for his treatment, and by the end of it I took a little less pleasure in the whole thing.... a little.

Why would somebody come to this forum and expect or even desire civility?

[August]

I've yet to come up with a completely reasonable counterargument to Hasbinbad's hatred of the military without it being contaminated by emotional considerations.

I made a schadenfraude thread about an objectivist cancer patient who couldn't pay for his treatment, and by the end of it I took a little less pleasure in the whole thing.... a little.

Why would somebody come to this forum and expect or even desire civility?


Thank you for sharing! Our first real response!

[Tiggles]

I used to hate everyone in IB/TR but when they left I realized they where not that bad because they forum pvp'd with me.

[Breeziyo]

Real recognize real and you lookin' kind of unfamiliar right now.

I'm just messing with you. I haven't really had an RnF post change my view significantly on a topic (though I rarely post enough content to have a point argued against me) except maybe RMTing. I used to think it wasn't such a big deal. Sold my WoW account for a couple hundred dollars back in WotLK and didn't think anything of it. Maybe it wasn't so terrible since WoW is such a large scale game, but I can definitely see how it could negatively impact a small community like this.

Not to dickride too much but I notice Lexical's posts tend to ground / diffuse situations more often than not, too. Maybe it's just the avatar that makes me notice his posts over others. Regardless, it's hilarious to see Gregorian chants linked with a fitting post.

I try not to let what other people post here change my opinions of them (too much) because most of them are p cool in their own right.

[Lexical]

Not to dickride too much but I notice Lexical's posts tend to ground / diffuse situations more often than not, too. Maybe it's just the avatar that makes me notice his posts over others. Regardless, it's hilarious to see Gregorian chants linked with a fitting post.


http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m81tt8p5If1rn95k2o1_250.gif

[OforOppression]

man fuck you breezy

[Itap]

I like you

[Breeziyo]

man fuck you breezy

:/

[Relapse2]

I used to think Harrison was the biggest obnoxious looser on the forums but now i'm pretty sure that honour belongs to Alarti

[Reiker000]

I've yet to come up with a completely reasonable counterargument to Hasbinbad's hatred of the military without it being contaminated by emotional considerations.

How about because it's not fair or respectful to express or even harbor feelings of hatred towards any group of people based on any sort of common attribute including but not limited to occupation?

I do realize that this is an evolutionary characteristic that's shared by all intelligent creatures, but I hope we can eventually advance past it. One time some ancient ass human got eaten by a tiger so everyone was like "hey, let's not trust any large orange feline creature with white/black stripes because it might eat us too." That's great, less humans got eaten by tigers, but we also became weary of anything not completely like us in order to survive. "If I can't understand it, then I don't like it" is innately human, but it requires a bit of intelligence and reasoning to think past that and realize that just because you can't understand someone's background or personal choices, you shouldn't wish ill will towards them; because no one is that fucking special, you live and you die and you turn to dust and you're nothing but the smallest blip on an infinite timeline.