@Misadventure said in The 100: The Mush:

So you have a hot button.

You assume something, and won't change that assumption if told otherwise?

That's on you, not the English language.

It very much is the English language.

"I'm sorry that you took it that way" is very obviously blame-shifting. Parse the fucking grammar, dude: It starts with "I'm sorry", sure, but then the subject shifts: to "you". After that it's all on "you". This is almost canonical blame-shifting that is so obvious that I suspect my former ESL students would spot it, and they're fucking incompetents grammatically speaking!

If you want to actually express regret for a reaction, there's a myriad of non-blame-shifting ways to do it. For example:

• I'm sorry, I didn't intend to be offensive.
• I'm sorry, I didn't realize this would offend.
• I'm sorry, my wording was clumsy.
• I'm sorry, I probably didn't word that right.

I'm sure I'm coming across as condescending right now. I'm sorry you can't understand fundamental human interaction.

This thread is the reason why we can't have nice things.

Also, anybody who apologizes in a public forum is practically begging for the ensuing dogpile given the current cultural climate.

Keep your criticisms and your apologies in private where they belong.

Things I should have learned sooner: there's a reason they're called "dark" secrets. You're not meant to reveal them. Like my dark secret that I actually enjoy a lot of Adam Sandler flicks. Absolutely not a thing that should ever be spoken aloud in polite company or admitted to on a MU*ing bitch board.

When the GM has absolutely, positively had enough of your fucking crap.

@ThatGuyThere said:

@Arkandel
Ouch you have my sympathies, that is almost worse then mixing up Star Wars and Star Trek.

What's the difference? I mean one's in Hogwart's the other's in Middle Earth but they're basically the same thing, right?

My idiot son just scored top tier in a nationwide combined prize examination for maths, Chinese, and English.

Maybe he's not quite the idiot I thought he was….

If my "IC" action would detract from the enjoyment of game players, I change my "IC" action. It's that simple.

Answering your more subtle point about not enjoying playing with PC X's player (for whatever reason) -- well, I'm a player. I didn't say "other game players" above.

It's not the site. It's the people talking. They're so incoherent they're responding to things that haven't been said yet.

@Ghost said in RL Anger:

The only truly democratic process of our alleged democratic elections are what are called the "Primaries". This is when the two-party system (Democrats and Republicans) field a number of prospective candidates per party as options to vote for.

You have two parties? I thought you had only the one (Plutocrats) who had two ever so slightly different branch offices ("Democrats" and "Republicans").

@Admiral said:

It's easier to be an asshole and apologize later than to not be an asshole.

You know what's even easier? Recognizing that every human being who has ever lived and ever will live has been and/or will be an asshole at some point or another. Your message here being a case in point. (And mine, for that matter.)

@mietze said in RL Anger:

@sunny said in RL Anger:

I work for a tribe in which fish is a really big deal. We get LOTS of people that microwave fish. And have smoked fish stinking up the office. And...

sigh

Time to crack open a can of surstromming!

I cleared a building once with just a sandwich. No nuke required. I just opened the container while sitting coincidentally near to a ventilation intake.

Anybody from the Hessen area of Germany will nod in understanding when I mention the sandwich was Handkäse (mit Musik!) and will wonder what the Hell was going through my head taking that to work in North America. Or anywhere outside of the Frankfurt area in general.

So, the package sent on the 27th of August finally arrived.

I am now sporting this on my noggin:

Then they're fucked if they get harassed, I guess.

The rest of us can log without being "compromised" in any meaningful way.

@Arkandel: One of the advantages to Mythic is that its core mechanism is literally one table. If players know only that table and a three-step method, they know the game enough to play it.

@Auspice: PM me and I'll hook you up.

I'll add a vote for Magician, and for system I'd suggest Word Mill's Mythic.

The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel

You like to cook, @Ganymede, and I like to eat. We should hang!

Three consecutive lost databases makes me ... well, I'll keep a local copy anyway.

I'll keep the rules for the official drinking game.

And I'll have an off-site backup for when the admin flakes out and loses the entire database again so we can just start up from where we left off.

@seraphim73 Aural, not oral. Unless you're into some really weird kinks playing by ear is not generally found in pornography.