Doivid said
this is more like what I was looking for, not the woah angry blowback. Then again, I could have said it more tactfully. 8DYou may not want people to think that, but you can't stop it. What you can do is look at why people react like that, critically, and determine if it really is some fault on their part, or if you get that reaction a lot, what you may be doing that contributes to it. I thought because I'm not all involved in your life you could take it as relatively unbiased, but I think it's a sore subject for you at this point.And I'll level with you, this is based on what I've known of you since I came to spam. The parts of your post I pointed out (I did read the rest, just more of a skim tho) were just signifiers of something I'd already noticed.and hey, if that is something you do, it's just something you gotta work on. It's not a terrible sin.Look at us getting somewhere now. I'm proud of us, halo.

It might have been defensive, but not angry. I'm lying in bed having barely slept for two weeks, I really don't have the energy to getathat angry. What I did was defend myself and my views against something that wasn't constructive criticism based on heat I said, but a prejudiced assumption based on year-or-two old posts.

David, you don't know me. You've seen brief glimpses of me in a public forum where I have a persona. It's fairly senseless to make assumptions about me based on some kind of bullshit psychoanalysis based on forum posts, and not on the words I'm actually writing - those you didn't, or barely, read. Control is a sore point for me, but not because of my controlling of others; only by one person have I ever legitimately been criticised for for that, and I paid greatly for my mistakes. I learned from it, and I eventually apologised to them, just as they apologised for the hurt they'd done me and the times they'd controlled me. It's a sore point because of what I have seen happen to others, from others. I've been the emotional crutch of more than a few rape and sexual assault victims, and those who force control on themselves through self-harm and other means. Control is something I am very familiar with. Yes, its a sore point, but not for the reasons your bullcrap psychoanalysis came up with, and now I'm forced to share things about myself that I didn't want to to discredit those accusations of yours.

So, yknow, congrats, you intentionally baited and tried to humiliate and condescend a tired 17-year-old, and you succeeded, just as you have done before. Yeah, I am a little angry about it, and I've put far too much time and effort into replying to this crap, but once again: oh well. It is what it is.

rpg ate my response. :(

anyway halo this escalated more than I anticipated, shot you a pm.

To respond to your earlier question, I have a couple friends I flirt with, and while some joke around about it, others ignore it, and some give me the cloudcuckoolander treatment for it, it has never had a negative effect on my relationships with them. The only friends I flirt with—often with "accidental" innuendo, my favourite—are the ones I know so well that we can really do anything with each other.

There's really two levels to this, that I guess I might as well mention. First of all, important things to note: I am a male interested in females, and it is well-known by basically everyone around me in real-life that I have no intention of forming a romantic—and even less, a sexual—relationship with anyone.

Firstly, the most frequent flirting is some I do with one of my best friends. He is male, I am male, and I like to let slip some sexual/romantic innuendo from time to time, especially with observers around, to just mock myself. It goes contrary to what I am accepted as being, and that makes it fun. To a lesser extent, I also do this with my brother in the Skype Group, for much the same reasons, with the added fun of him being totally weirded out because incest and all.

Secondly, less frequently, I may do similar flirting when in the company of people I know well, but that aren't in my top-tier friendslist. In those cases, I am always quick to "divert the flirt" so they understand I wasn't serious. By creating a flirty situation, and then quickly explaining the totally platonic reason I would be doing it. And it works because the know that I'm joking, and they also know I'm serious about the platonic stuff.

So all in all, the friendly flirting without end goal works largely due to the targets knowing what's happening, and that nothing will come of it. The few that get weirded out by it usually dismiss it as randomness, and I have no issues with that.

When I accused someone of having a major character flaw, I didn't expect this! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Oh, we're simmering down now?

Awson said
Oh, we're simmering down now?

That wasn't a major personality flaw imo, but you do have a whole bunch!

so there's that.

This whole thread is so ridiculous.

"Halo and Awson tag team a gay. No-one is surprised at the latent homophobia."

Doivid said
That wasn't a major personality flaw imo, but you do have a whole bunch!so there's that.

Either way, you're still not making yourself look innocent by keeping at it with me.

So that sort of helps Halo's argument. Neutral criticism? No way! We win!

No, wait. We're both bad people. You win :(

Turtlicious said
This whole thread is so ridiculous."Halo and Awson tag team a gay. No-one is surprised at the latent homophobia."

Someone didn't bother to read a single post in this thread, I'm guessing.

Awson said
Either way, you're still not making yourself look innocent by keeping at it with me.So that sort of helps Halo's argument. Neutral criticism? No way! We win!No, wait. We're both bad people. You win :(

Do you pitch or catch?

Awson said
Either way, you're still not making yourself look innocent by keeping at it with me.So that sort of helps Halo's argument. Neutral criticism? No way! We win!No, wait. We're both bad people. You win :(

I'm not trying to? I'm just feeding the sucker fish who never leaves spam. I consider it neighborly.

I'm not sure what ground you have to stand on with the cunt comment and generally...being a cunt to me on rpg since the last time I was here, but I know this is more aobut your inserting yourself than actually making a cogent point. lol

mbl said
Someone didn't bother to read a single post in this thread, I'm guessing.

Not a single one. Lol.

e: Like I just literally looked at the names at the last 3 posts, know awson has ~*~issues~*~ with doivid, and took a wild guess.

Turtlicious said
This whole thread is so ridiculous."Halo and Awson tag team a gay. No-one is surprised at the latent homophobia."

nah it's not, awson is his own canerous entity.

There wasn't a single homophobic comment made, actually.

Oh u turt.

While it wasn't about Homophobia, I was right that awson has no reason to be posting except for the fact he wants to hash out his little feud.

I like this thread. It reminds me a lot of old Guild Spam.

Me and all my issues that I haven't brought up.

I'm one of the only two people here who isn't working based off of assumptions or past grievances.

Make peace, not love, people. Stop being so passionate.

Awson said
Me and all my issues that I haven't brought up.I'm one of the only two people here who isn't working based off of assumptions or past grievances.

lol

Awson said
Me and all my issues that I haven't brought up.I'm one of the only two people here who isn't working based off of assumptions or past grievances.

That statement is, ironically, an assumption.

You know what we all REALLY need?

A good, old fashioned spam TC party where everyone is mod and everyone is talking and posting vids and shit.

For some reason this thread reminds me of such.