MentalEdge

Not bad. A response like this and I would have treated you with respect from the start. The way I've done throughout these "4 hours" in other threads. That switch isn't hard to flip, especially when I'm not as out of control as I pretend to be.

But I've been keeping up with this thread since last night, sleeping, going to work, cooking... I ran a discussion thread on !dungeonmeshi@ani.social and much more.

This stuff doesn't bleed for me. I don't get pissed from a comment online then tear into a friend on discord. I don't have trouble keeping separate things separate.

My very source of frustration is the lack of the kind of consideration you are showing now, the kind every person on earth should be capable of. My edits are screams into a pillow, because the only people who see them are the ones who either come back, or showed up after the people I made those edits in response to.

The people who came across my edits and then decide "yeah, I'll pile on" may not be the same people that sparked my frustration, but they are the very same kind that cause it.

Face to face, we don't deal with angry people the way we do online. In person we react with caution and empathy. Is that what happened here?

Yes, I played into the unfortunate reality of how this works online for my own satisfaction...

But your appeal for me to remember that there are people on the other side, is redundant.

I didn't forget that. I explicitly took aim at the type of person that does, and I don't think I missed.

You can't know. No one can read facial cues and body language from text, and thereby mood.

So the best we can do with mere words, is use enough of them to get our point across.

What is yours? Couldn't help noticing that you've been reduced to "having a lot to say means angery" which is not much of a anything. It only works if you happen to be coincidentally right, and even then there's no causal link.

It's basically a sad attempt at geting the last word in, but without actually saying anything.

You're just pushing buttons in the dark hoping to find one that hurts. And you won't even know when or even if you succeed. What kind of person does that?

So there's some good in you.

You could do without the feigned concern tho, that stuff works better when you haven't first admitted to judging someone to be entirely insufferable, based on half a dozen comments explicitly intended to be that. No shit, what a revelation my guy.

Now go read my 2.5k other comments and then maybe I'll consider your advice on my self-improvement.

And diagnosis over social media, another classic. I'm sure my therapist would love to hear from you, since you have such insight on what I need.

Next time you feel like giving someone something to whine about, try and avoid doing so at an even higher pitch than they were.

And do you seriously think me so dumb that I thought for a second my edits wouldn't summon even more downvotes? That my adversarial stance would actually make anyone back off?

Only one person ticked me off here.

I'm the one who then managed to piss off something like two dozen of you douchebags.

The internet doesn't deal with angry users the way we deal with angry people in person, with care, sympathy and caution.

When people think someone is losing it online, you pile on like the psychopaths you are.

Exactly, it's meaningless, yet not without consequence. An early downvote can kill a post by smothering its visibility when new.

I take issue with people taking baseless action, doing, even when they can't possibly back it up with words, and affecting things in ways they are too dumb to even consider.

Such instances are infuriating. Exemplary of the worst in us.

I see you're having a go at putting some sentences together to excuse a type of parasitical behaviour even more toxic than mine, but whatever.

You'll have to do better than this now that I've got the whole thing out of system.

Coward.

I saw that notification, unfortunately I was under no illusion what kind of people my edits would bring out of the woodwork.

And that's why I made them, to bring you out for me to take some swings at. And here you are. Though you slipped back into hiding real fast.

I did come from there, and statistically, so did you. But lemmy does have a much nicer vocal userbase.

However, the amount of silent downvoters who will snipe posts and comments to smother their visibility is higher, surprisingly enough.

The last downvote happened.

I vented 6k contributed comments and posts worth of random unexplained disapproval, there.

Baseless downvotes annoy me over time, so I provoked the type of people who make them out of the woodwork so I could take a couple swings. Lo and behold, worked exactly the way any idiot could predict.

I feel much better now.

Darn. The headset itself doesn't have much of a system inside, or could it do something like video decoding? Or is it and the PS5 really a package deal?

The power issue could be solved with a breakout box of some kind... I had thought it was just USB PD.

Are you saying anti-theists are in favor of eradicating religion from human memory?

If so, no. Wrong.

Simply not making decisions based on fictional fairy tales, doesn't require deleting those fairy tales from historical record or cultural memory.

Only religions obliterate other religions, atheists simply don't believe the stories to be true, and anti-theists simply want humanity to stop being controlled by things that aren't real.

About to downvote this? Please do, it will give me endless satisfaction if the downcount goes up on this one, because I apparently made you cringe so hard you went looking for unrelated comments of mine to express your wordless disapproval even more strongly.