Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Heavyarms55 He meant that as a joke. Learn to take a joke.

@TheAwesomeBowser I was playing along with his joke dude. lol. He actually said the "blah blah blah" part. Or course it was a joke.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Yeah, they all kind of hate me. It's pretty much total and utter BS. It does make me pretty salty, because normally this is a pretty chill and open site, and different opinions are pretty respected. But nope. I don't like VR so everyone needs to tell me how "wrong" I am.

Was it a joke?

Well with Octane we can never really be sure. I mean I occasionally do feel like he is the literal source of all evil in all the universes. Like Satan himself looks at Octane and is just like "Duuuuude, this guy is mean!" And God agrees.

But this time I do think it was a joke.

@Heavyarms55 Nevermind then.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Actually, most of the people here don't seem to hate me on here. Or at least they don't act like it. I don't recognize most of the names of the people replying to me on that thread. Except for @Trajan who is pretty cool. And if he or she hates me, they were pretty chill about it. It's like you said, this site is pretty chill a majority of the time, and that's the reason I like chatting here so much.

That, and @antdickens and his team do such a good job running it. I read almost every article at this point, almost obsessively. lol

VR is like Beer

I sometimes confuse the two

@Heavyarms55 lol I don't hate you dude. You're one of my favorite commenters here.

@Trajan Yay!

@Heavyarms55 You do seem to have a bit of a “I don’t like it, ergo it is objectively bad” attitude about a few select topics.

So it’s not weird that some people get “triggered” by your comments, since they can come off as aggressive.

Dunno about your opinions on VR though, haven’t seen too many posts about that.

@Morpheel Look, I get it, everything I have said on this issue is wrong. Period. I am wrong, in everything I said. I give up. VR is the best bloody thing since sliced bread! I am never sharing any other opinion on that topic on this site again because clearly it's a really bad idea.

I try very hard to avoid stating my opinions as facts because I don't like it when others do that very thing. But if people interpret my personal dislike as an assertion stating something being objectively bad... well honestly, I blame them. I'm not really sure how I can be much clearer. Personally liking or disliking something is not the same thing as stating it is objectively good or bad.

Is that really such a common thing? That when people hear or read another person saying "I don't like X" they take it as some kind of code for "X is bad" ??? People should say what they mean! If I actually think something is legitimately, objectively bad, I will make that very clear. Or maybe not. Because this entire fiasco has me seriously doubting my own ability to communicate.

But it's yet another friendly reminder that, communication, like nearly everything else I do in life, I freaking suck at. But that's fine. Just one more thing I fail at. It was already a long list. One more thing ain't gonna hurt.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy I guess the pink hair in your avatar combined with your newness simply means you haven’t developed a unique voice.

@Anti-Matter The request from "Thrawn" was me. If it suddenly turns into "Joe" it's me. I go back and forth sometimes.

@ThanosReXXX That's probably not too far off either

@Morpheel Either that, or he just means that because @Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy is simply the best-rated voice actor, she's nearly always the one being hired to dub all these animes...

Glass half full, people. Glass half full...

@Heavyarms55 I wouldn't sweat it. I think you're fine. It's part of the problem with the internet, sometimes it's hard to know if people are joking or serious, and it's really hard to communicate with people because of that fact. Don't think you're doing anything wrong or that you're bad at it. Even I sometimes have trouble explaining my opinion on something if I don't like it. In turn it just unfortunately makes it sound like what were saying is fact, if we don't put at the end , IMO. So hang in there, you're OK in my book for what it's worth 😆

@NintendoByNature Completely agreed concerning online communication. I myself am a highly social and empathic person, but have at times found myself in the weirdest, most unwanted discussions, being painted as some kind of asocial megalomaniac. Must be the avatar or something...

Comes with the territory, indeed, of being online, and missing essential factors like voice intonation and facial expressions, making people assume all kinds of things sometimes. And as I've often said, the internet unfortunately also gives a voice to people that shouldn't have any, or people that you'd simply be able to ignore in real life, such as extremists of whatever kind, but online, it's pretty hard to avoid them.

Just take a look at the average YouTube comments section. It's a true cesspool sometimes...
Luckily, this community here is still pretty decent. Don't like the ignore button, though: I know for a fact that some people have ignored me based upon similar misunderstandings, and that bothers me immensely.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy You're welcome. And I forgot you are a teacher. Would have been the easier choice, but I obviously tried to explain the whole voice acting thing...

@ThanosReXXX yep you're exactly right . Twitter gets pretty rough too. Aside from linkedin this is the only form of social media im on. Honestly I feel alot better about not being on those platforms, not that there's anything wrong with being on them but for me, I just grew tired of the hatred, know it alls, and the look how good my life is. That's why i like NL so much. Since it's pretty much only gaming discussions ( aside from this thread), I can relate to alot of People.