Westley

Yes, please. +Rep for you for getting the point.

Ranger/Ranger with the legendary quad wield:

Fair enough. I suppose that there's enough evil jerkwads and whiny losers out there that when the two sides meet, there will always be trouble no matter what.

I'm just happy that I'm a jerkwad loser so I don't have their problems.

If I EVER find something offensive, at that point I don't try to find out what's wrong with what was said or what's wrong with the one that said it.... I try to find out what's wrong with ME. Offense only exists in the mind of the one that's offended. If you're offended by nothing, then you lead a happy life. If you are offended by a great many things, then your life is consequently much more unhappy, if not a living hell.

Also, people only have the power to offend that YOU give them. For example, let's use the comedy scifi show Red Dwarf. They made up a "swear" word, "smeg". They used that word in every circumstance where a person of our world would use a swear word. But we're not offended in the slightest when they use it.

Why's that? Because that word has no POWER over us. We have no feelings associated to that word or to the sentiment that it represents. So guess what? If you take away ALL of the negative feelings and emotions attached to a word, it loses its POWER over you. It simply doesn't BOTHER you anymore. The same concept extends out to phrases.

So that's the perspective I'm coming from. I've been working for years to slowly take out all of the "offensive" words and phrases that I've been "conditioned" by society to feel upset about. And you know what? It has made my life INFINITELY more happy and joyful.

There are very FEW things that bother me anymore, which also means that there are FEW things that people can do to actually bother me. Some still exist of course, and I'm still working on it. But the fact remains... you can make your own life better by TALKING AWAY the "power" that these words, phrases, and concepts have over you.

It is within your power to make your own life happier, so why not do it?



I am still however working very hard on the word "hypocrite". That's one of the few major bugaboos that I have left. If someone calls me that, I still go nuts because I try with everything that I do to be the ANTI-hyprocrite. But... as I said, I'm working on it.

So any trolls out there that are reading this, if you want to get under my skin, go ahead and call me a hypocrite. It will only help me speed faster towards the day when nothing whatsoever bothers me.

Or, like a big boy and an adult... you could simply NOT LOOK at things that you know you'll probably be offended by. You know, exercise a little bit of self control? Or is that too much for you?

Why ask some moderator to change the way the boards work for YOU, when you are fully capable of moderating your OWN behavior?



Sorry if I sound a bit snippy, but I'm getting tired of people perpetually suggesting that they have some sort of "right" to "not be offended", ever. In this life you WILL be offended once in a while. That's reality.

If I am looking in the direction of an ugly naked dude that stays in the same place all the time and never moves... and seeing that naked ugly dude BOTHERS me, then guess what? I don't LOOK at the ugly naked dude or in his direction anymore. I don't feel COMPELLED to have him moved somewhere else or to have him forced to put on some clothes. I just DON'T LOOK.

How is that so hard? Someone please explain it to me because I just don't get it.

Yup, I would take the challenge, if he actually challenged me. Instead he puts it up as a rhetorical situation that's "impossible". In fact...

He did offer me that "challenge" in another thread, and I DID respond to his post, suggesting that I WOULD do it if I thought he was serious, but he basically SAID in the same post that it doesn't even matter if I can, because he speaks "the sacred truth" which "cannot be denied!"

And if you look in that thread, he still never responded to my response. Not even an, "oh ya! do it! I DARE you!" Seeing that the thread was locked, he could have at least sent me a PM. But what did he send to refute? Nothing.

Funny, that.

EDIT: And Angel, no, it wasn't targeted at YOU specifically. You're not special in the slightest, I've had the same situation MANY times with people that have the same attitude. And as soon as I offer to "put up" at that point THEY always either "shut up" and pretend like I didn't say it, or they try to deflate the challenge and say something to the likes of... "it doesn't matter". So predictable.

You're kind of missing the point Spade. I'm not a "maestro", anyone can do this if they actually put in the tiny amount of effort to use the tools that the developers have provided us with.

I even wrote a guide for those that can't figure out how to use those tools. But there is no "secret" in the guide, it's all basically just COMMON SENSE.



Sometimes people just need to be told things that they already really know, just to hear it from someone else. That's why Dave Ramsey has a career.

I LOLed. It's the equivalent of P_P plugging her ears and going "lalalalalaa!!!!"

I'm totally with Sam on this one. I want... no... DEMAND for them to produce the Sex Axis (one minute into the video) controller rite nao!

K.... I could make the FUNNIEST statement about that right now, but instead I think I'll PM it to you. I'd rather not get banned today.

For some reason this reminded me of Zathras...

It's obviously a city in Norway.