"I'm soloing" ... "ur selfish"
Here's a wacky idea, if someone sends a tell asking to join up with you, why not invite them?
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Because I feel like soloing at the moment, and it's my choice whether I team or not.
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Here's a wacky idea. If you pester some stranger to join them and they tell you they're soloing, why not just leave them alone and find someone else to play with?
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At least now i have a little more insight into the mindset of those people who repeatedly insist you should invite them to a team because they can't comprehend the idea of wanting to solo and how just one or two people like that can bother so many others.
Seriously, i wonder how many of the posts in this thread were the results of PR's insistence that soloing is wrongbadthink being put into practice in game despite all the perfectly valid reasons given for wanting to solo. (IMO "Because I want to solo" is just as valid as "because I'm AFK with RL stuff most of the time"; you have no obligation to team with anyone in particular, ever.)
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I wS soloing yesterday doing some arcs and I got a tell reading "can i join ur team pls?"
I responded "sorry, I'm soloing right now". The reply "ur selfish. Let me join u" came back. I Didn't bother replying to that. Soloing is selfish now? Lol ![]() Eco |
I blame all of the old school team beggars who were always 4-5 levels down trying to get on a team and refuse to sidekick. After awhile I just ignore blind tells requesting to join my "solo" team. So, fast forward to today, I still have the habit of just ignoring such requests. I check my global friend list and if I don't see their name I just carry on as before.
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Seriously, i wonder how many of the posts in this thread were the results of PR's insistence that soloing is wrongbadthink being put into practice in game despite all the perfectly valid reasons given for wanting to solo. (IMO "Because I want to solo" is just as valid as "because I'm AFK with RL stuff most of the time"; you have no obligation to team with anyone in particular, ever.)
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The thing to remember with people who play by themselves is they won't go out of their way to bother you exactly BECAUSE they're by themselves and not on your team.
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Here's a wacky idea, if someone sends a tell asking to join up with you, why not invite them? You were soloing and now you're teamed. Do you really care about their grammar skills or presumption? Do you feel that a random lowbie is an unconscionable burden upon your shoulders? If you're just taking it easy and soloing while you do something else you could say "I'm taking it easy and soloing while I do something else. Still want to join?" They might.
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Pffft.
"Do you love me?" "whut" "You wish to join my team. Do you love me?" "uhhh sure lol" "I love you too." *send invite* *joins team* *enters mission* *kick teammate* "I have commitment issues." EDIT: In the spirit of full disclosure, I have zero issues with random teaming, so long as the person is asking for help with their run. But Cap's jerkish response demanded something sublime and elegant in response. |
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I must be insanely unaware, because I can't see anything particularly wrong or rude or jerkish at all with that reply.
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Besides, it's the ones insisting us solo players (who aren't bothering anyone at all and just minding our own business) that we have to let them join us or else who are the selfish ones! They're just using their own propaganda spin to try and guilt us into letting them in; it's another one of their underhanded tactics.
I had a similar situation last week. I was on a team, but wasn't leading it, and I had somebody ask if they could join my team. Well, he had a longish name, and we were in the thick of things, so I told him that, "I'm not in charge, you should ask the leader." Apparently he didn't know about the "/ttl" command, so during brief lull in the fighting a couple minutes later I explained it to him. He still couldn't be bothered to figure it out and wanted me to do all of the footwork for him. Needless to say, I ignored him from that point.
I need to macro that explains the use of the "/ttl" command. While this individual wasn't the first person to not be familiar with the command, he was by far the most irritating person to date.
EDITed because i realised you meant theu other guy's response was jerkish, not mine.
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Because I feel like soloing at the moment, and it's my choice whether I team or not.
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Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim
Because I'm soloing.
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Originally Posted by MisterMagpie
Naw, it'd be mean for me to invite someone. I spend a lot of time reading and doing stuff while I play, so there's periods where my character is just standing there for like ten minutes at a time. If I want to keep up with other people, I just send a tell to people forming teams in channels/broadcast.
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Here's a wacky idea. If you pester some stranger to join them and they tell you they're soloing, why not just leave them alone and find someone else to play with?
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That's... a pretty big assumption you're making there, PR. How do you know we'd have any fun with the random person around?
... I'm all for being inclusive on principle, but not all characters are equally suited for random teaming and I don't think it's a bad thing to recognize that and respond to invites and teaming requests with it in mind. |
He's gonna force you to hug him whether you want to or not. It's for your own good, you know!!!
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Seriously, i wonder how many of the posts in this thread were the results of PR's insistence that soloing is wrongbadthink being put into practice in game despite all the perfectly valid reasons given for wanting to solo. (IMO "Because I want to solo" is just as valid as "because I'm AFK with RL stuff most of the time"; you have no obligation to team with anyone in particular, ever.)
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Yeah, ok, I'll do this if you promise that next time you're in your flat watching TV alone and some random stranger calls at your door and says 'Hey, hi, can i come watch TV with you?" you'll go "Well, sure, come in! But I might change the channel without warning or pause the dvd to go make dinner or speak to my mom on the phone, so you'll have to bear with me if that happens. But yeah, there's my sofa, make yourself at home!"
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Did you guys know there's a button you can press to remove someone from a team you're leading if you take exception to their behavior?
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I'd find that much easier to believe had the topic not been "best ways to avoid as many people as possible" before I ruined everything with my uncouth demands that everyone always team with everyone.
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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This particular beehive seems to have major issues understanding the difference between "I think some of you people should try teaming now and again because it looks like you never have before" and "I think none of you should ever be allowed to solo again."
The sort of answer that leads me to believe some of you may be displaying signs of antisocial personality disorder. You're getting mad about the idea not of someone impinging on your soloing, but about the idea that they might want to. And you're not the only one.
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I say though, what is this constant need you have to want to force strangers into playing with you all the time? Some sort of hypersocial disorder perhaps? Attempting backwards connections on people you don't even know? Very interesting, indeed.
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The sort of answer that leads me to believe some of you may be displaying signs of antisocial personality disorder. You're getting mad about the idea not of someone impinging on your soloing, but about the idea that they might want to. And you're not the only one.
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What?
Seriously, what? Where did you get the idea I was getting mad? Where? Quote me and point out where I'm getting mad.
And what right do you think you have to tell me I may have a disorder? If you want to make people mad, telling them there's something wrong with them is a sure-fire way to do it.
I highly suggest you reevaluate your outlook on life and others, son, because right now you're not only making yourself out to be completely ignorant, you're also throwing words and terms and accusations around that might really upset someone. What if I did have an antisocial personality disorder? What if my coping mechanism was to play an online game? What if the only way I could socialize was through a medium that didn't actually require me to socialize with visible, present human beings?
Do you have any idea how huge a dick move your little retort would be if I really did have the aforementioned condition?
Up until my early teens I had an attention disorder. I had to be medicated for most of my developmental years. If you told me, to my face, that I didn't do something a certain way in-game because I had ADD I'd probably cuff you one. Not cool, PR. Not cool at all.
You should be ashamed of yourself, and I'm not saying that out of anger. If this is how you address things in your day-to-day life I pity you.
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This particular beehive seems to have major issues understanding the difference between "I think some of you people should try teaming now and again because it looks like you never have before" and "I think none of you should ever be allowed to solo again."
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What I don't like is other people telling me what to do. Especially when it's none of their danged business. As my sister always like to say: "You want to live my life? Then pay my rent!"
Surely it's more reasonable to try new things on occasion than it is to simply dig yourself into a bunker and assume the war's still going on years later? What exactly are you putting on the line by inviting some random guy to join you? As I said, I do it all the time and as far as I know it has never caused me any harm, material or otherwise. Compare that to putting yourself on /hide so nobody will ever be able to send you an invite or tell. How is that going to improve your experience in the game? Again, we're all free to do whatever weirdo things we want, obviously, but barricading your door and cutting your phone line so that nobody can break into your house and change your TV stations... uhhhh, sure. That's a reasonable position, then?
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That's the thing, Boss: I'm still not mad. Surprised, amazed, blown away-- but not mad. I'm just genuinely caught off guard that someone would say something that ignorant about something so trivial and mean it.
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EDIT: And you're right. Whats-his-name has managed to completely marginalize an actual, real problem some people actually have. For what, to bug people to play with him more?
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