"I'm soloing" ... "ur selfish"
Why are you assuming the people who've responded to this thread only solo and hate teaming? You're more biased than they are.
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Nalrok, if your mind is blown by someone using the name of an actual thing from DSM-IV, I think you need thicker skin. Then again, isn't that the story of the thread?
My search message is something akin to "I don't power level. If you ask me to PL you, I will respond with 'Die.' You have been warned."
When someone asks me to PL them, then I can--and do--reply with a clear conscience, "Die."
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Because more than one of 'em shared the great tip of sticking in /hide mode 100% of the time so that they would never again have to encounter anyone who isn't in their global list already.
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*I know you can't see it, but please try to imagine my monocle flying off in shock.
De minimis non curat Lex Luthor.
I think you'll find I never advised anyone to spend a single penny at a psychologist.
You sure do take this "you must team with me!" thing rather seriously to have dragged this thread on much longer than it really should have.
Nalrok, if your mind is blown by someone using the name of an actual thing from DSM-IV, I think you need thicker skin. Then again, isn't that the story of the thread?
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And no, that's not the story of this thread. The story of this thread is Captain asking if anyone else had experienced a similar situation to his own in regards to teaming, and halfway down the first page you decide to roll in with a snarky comment that goes against the whole point of the thread. The rest of it is you making yourself out to be a biased, insensitive know-it-all.
I think you'll find I never advised anyone to spend a single penny at a psychologist.
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In all seriousness, accusing me of having a mental disorder is, in fact, advising me to see a psychologist.
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Since everyone is so deeply offended that I used a real thing instead of a fake thing, it has now been amended to be a fake thing. Feel free to instead focus on my point, which was that there's no reason to become a virtual recluse in city of heroes, unless you happen to have incredible spider powers.
Goodbye may seem forever
Farewell is like the end
But in my heart's the memory
And there you'll always be
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Since everyone is so deeply offended that I used a real thing instead of a fake thing, it has now been amended to be a fake thing. Feel free to instead focus on my point, which was that there's no reason to become a virtual recluse in city of heroes, unless you happen to have incredible spider powers.
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Since everyone is so deeply offended that I used a real thing instead of a fake thing, it has now been amended to be a fake thing. Feel free to instead focus on my point, which was that there's no reason to become a virtual recluse in city of heroes, unless you happen to have incredible spider powers.
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Just because some of us like to play the game alone from time to time doesn't make us reclusive. I highly suggest you stop throwing terms around that don't fit the context of the discussion at hand. It just reinforces the idea that you don't know what they really mean.
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"Dark Armor is a complete waste as a tanking set."
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Since everyone is so deeply offended that I used a real thing instead of a fake thing, it has now been amended to be a fake thing. Feel free to instead focus on my point, which was that there's no reason to become a virtual recluse in city of heroes, unless you happen to have incredible spider powers.
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De minimis non curat Lex Luthor.
Because it's all about you, right?
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Haha and Bosstone is up for it too. This sort of undermines your point, fellows.
What exactly are you putting on the line by inviting some random guy to join you?
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What am I losing? I'm playing the game right now, and my Mastermind is currently idling inside a mission as I type this message. I cannot, in good conscience, subject a team-mate to this, because if I were subjected to this, I would be insulted that my time is being wasted. Do not unto others what you would not have done to you.
Stop patronising people. It's not helping.
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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In response to your previous post, you don't seem to have noticed that my point is that I invite people who send me tells. I fail to see how that is a character flaw?
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If you want to invite any and all people into your team, nobody's stopping you. If that's how you have fun, more power to you. But don't think everyone else should have fun in the exact same way you do or else they're doing it wrong.
De minimis non curat Lex Luthor.
It's pretty laughable of you to come back with the very thing you're accusing me of being so terrible for doing, but the thing is I've somehow managed to soldier on. In response to your previous post, you don't seem to have noticed that my point is that I invite people who send me tells. I fail to see how that is a character flaw?
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Captain, the Reading Comprehension levels are critically low!
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there's no reason to become a virtual recluse in city of heroes
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For my part, I have global friends. I moderate a global channel. I attend regularly scheduled events. I usually join the people on my list when invited. I occasionally join random people who are doing a TF or Trial that I need to do.
I do not normally invite strangers to team with me. Freedom of choice.
'I don't like the look of it at all,' said the King: 'however, it may kiss my hand if it likes.'
'I'd rather not,' the Cat remarked.
'Don't be impertinent,' said the King, 'and don't look at me like that!' He got behind Alice as he spoke.
'A cat may look at a king,' said Alice.
Jokes aside, where you go wrong is that your posts in this thread have all assumed that someone who declines people who send them tells is exhibiting a character flaw.
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
What am I losing? I'm playing the game right now, and my Mastermind is currently idling inside a mission as I type this message. I cannot, in good conscience, subject a team-mate to this, because if I were subjected to this, I would be insulted that my time is being wasted. Do not unto others what you would not have done to you.
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It's pretty laughable of you to come back with the very thing you're accusing me of being so terrible for doing, but the thing is I've somehow managed to soldier on. In response to your previous post, you don't seem to have noticed that my point is that I invite people who send me tells. I fail to see how that is a character flaw?
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When you antagonise people with passive-aggressive nonsense enough, they WILL dispense with politeness and consideration and simply turn on you. Congratulations - you managed to antagonise essentially everyone else in this thread, even people who might have actually supported you had you not acted like a self-righteous jerk.
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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De minimis non curat Lex Luthor.
Since everyone is so deeply offended that I used a real thing instead of a fake thing, it has now been amended to be a fake thing. Feel free to instead focus on my point, which was that there's no reason to become a virtual recluse in city of heroes, unless you happen to have incredible spider powers.
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The disconnect here is that you seem to think other people get to decide when we team. They do not any more than they have the choice of when we log into the game.
What Nalrok_AthZim alluded to is reality for me: I have trouble socializing with humans when I can see them. I use City of Heroes as a substitute for that socialization.
I also find combat in City of Heroes distressful if too much is happening at once. I'm okay with one or two teammates, or more if everyone knows I can't necessarily keep up, but every time I've had someone who doesn't know me ask if I want to team and I say, "Well okay, but only if the team is small" I either suddenly end up in an 8 man if I don't have the star or if I do have the star I start getting guilted into 'you should invite more people'.
Seriously, without exception. I tried for years accomodating strangers, and each time I was punished with insensitivity or distressful circumstances.
Eventually, the ongoing problem reached a point where I associated 'stranger suddenly wanting to team' with stress. Whether you think I should experience this or not is immaterial. I do.
But despite this, I continue to log in. I continue to socialize through global channels, broadcast, tells, and local, I make new friends, and, yes. I do still sometimes PUG of my own volition.
When I decide to.
I solo most of the time too, Void, but that's the thing. There's a difference between soloing a lot and shutting out the outside world. One of the things I suppose I should have brought up sooner instead of getting into a giant slap fight is that one of the advantages of making yourself available for pugs and random sidekick requests is that you're improving two people's experiences at once. The person who was having no luck finding a team, and probably your own as well. It seems to me that being as open to random teaming as possible is a good thing to do in a game of this... seniority in the market.
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