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[Eschar]

Some forumers were pissed and flamey at one another

was this in the Ameripol thread? If so, I may have seen the flaminess

Good guess, but nope - the Happy Thread of all places

[Kagus]

nope - the Happy Thread of all places

This happens considerably more often than you might expect from the title.

[Trekkin]

nope - the Happy Thread of all places

This happens considerably more often than you might expect from the title.

It's been happening more lately, I think. The usual shitposters, tough guys, know-it-alls, gadflies, nihilists, wastoids, Bernie bros and Randroids have all been out in force, and they've started to bump into each other more exuberantly. Probably just anxiety about the coronavirus and the election, but still.

[Naturegirl1999]

Post deleted, I got my answer

[hector13]

nope - the Happy Thread of all places

This happens considerably more often than you might expect from the title.

It's been happening more lately, I think. The usual shitposters, tough guys, know-it-alls, gadflies, nihilists, wastoids, Bernie bros and Randroids have all been out in force, and they've started to bump into each other more exuberantly. Probably just anxiety about the coronavirus and the election, but still.

I think it was anime that was the topic, actually.

One person was shitposting while the other wasn’t and didn’t realize the other one was, and consequently got pissed off.

Assuming it was what I think it was. The pol threads have been reasonably... well, reasonable. Still a few months to go ‘til elections and such though, so plenty of time for the inevitable pre-election tensions.

[delphonso]

I'm constantly impressed by the Ameripol thread, honestly. I really only browse one other forum (about DnD) and those guys get more visceral about rule changes than the people in Ameripol have ever gotten. Shout out to Bay12 for that.

Back on topic,
You know that feeling where there's something you like to do, bit someone tells you to do it, so you don't want to even though you still want to because you like it? Yeah, that.

[Naturegirl1999]

I'm constantly impressed by the Ameripol thread, honestly. I really only browse one other forum (about DnD) and those guys get more visceral about rule changes than the people in Ameripol have ever gotten. Shout out to Bay12 for that.

Back on topic,
You know that feeling where there's something you like to do, bit someone tells you to do it, so you don't want to even though you still want to because you like it? Yeah, that.

to the first bit, people get more argumentative about rule changes than talking about the differences between communism and socialism here? Granted here is the only place where such a discussion didn’t turn the topic into an insult chain

To the second thing, I don’t think I ever had that, and so don’t know what it would be called. It doesn’t make sense to me

[Reelya]

Really, the point with the definitions isn't that the definitions matter, it's that people use one cherry-picked definition as a straw-man then act like they've debunked all things with a similar name. If people weren't going to abuse the terms like that, sticking to definitions wouldn't be a thing.

The most common example of what I mean is when someone is talking about universal health care, someone calls that socialist, then they draw a direct line between that word and North Korea or something, arguing that universal health care will end up like that for some reason, mainly because they were loosely able to draw a line of inference due to the word "socialist", rather than anything that public hospitals have in common with an ideological dictatorship based on a cult of personality. (Then if pressed for any actual similarities, they mention stuff that's basically common to any large organization, like having a chain of command and central decision making, which basically makes every single corporation a Stalinist dictatorship).

[scriver]

Really, the point with the definitions isn't that the definitions matter, it's that people use one cherry-picked definition as a straw-man then act like they've debunked all things with a similar name. If people weren't going to abuse the terms like that, sticking to definitions wouldn't be a thing.

That's not what a strawman is, a strawman is a tool made to scare crows. Therefore your argument is wrong

[delphonso]

to the first bit, people get more argumentative about rule changes than talking about the differences between communism and socialism here?

To the second thing, I don’t think I ever had that, and so don’t know what it would be called. It doesn’t make sense to me

It's a pretty argumentative forum. People who like DnD seem to actually hate DnD.

Hmm. The example is cleaning, which is something I enjoy, but if someone tells me to, I don't want to. Perhaps I'm just being contrarian or just hate being bossed around in any circumstance.

[Reelya]

A similar fandom is the old-school mecha fans. "how dare things gets animated if they're not going to have robots in them?"

[methylatedspirit]

I have spent an hour trying to sleep. I'm wondering if it's some odd phenomenon where it gets harder to sleep the older I get, or if it's just a series of isolated incidents that I'm joining together. Either way, I really need to avoid green tea or green tea-flavored stuff at night.

[Eric Blank]

I missed a return call from a business because I was busy making dinner and now im terrified I might not get the job. Nobody else has called me back in over a week. I'm completely broke now. I have to pay my car loan. It's been a solid week of anxiety non-stop

[Naturegirl1999]

I missed a return call from a business because I was busy making dinner and now im terrified I might not get the job. Nobody else has called me back in over a week. I'm completely broke now. I have to pay my car loan. It's been a solid week of anxiety non-stop

are you able to call them back?

[itisnotlogical]

My fingers are doing this thing where a small strip of skin peels up from right beside the nail, then comes off one way or another and the site gets minorly infected. No doctor I've shown it to has raised any concern, but it hurts like a son of a bitch for several days as blood and pus build up and discharge several times. I didn't know something about the diameter of three sewing needles could hurt this much.