This really shouldn't be in the Happy thread, because it's not really a happy event in the slightest. But it revolves around this thread, so let me break down some events of this afternoon.
I log onto Steam. Jakkarra messages me, asking me to play Men of War with him, like he's been doing a lot lately. This irritates me, but I
want to be good at the game, just because I can't stand being bad at stuff that I think I should be good at. It also irritates me that he keeps asking all the time, but I'd feel like a dick if I just came out and said NO, so I agree to.
He thinks it would be a lot easier to show me how the game works if we can voicechat. On top of this being objectively true, I've been looking for an excuse to make my microphone work. While I'm screwing my way through that process, Janet messages me
and the following conversation takes place. My sense of humor revolves around ragging on everything and complaining. This will become the third time in one weekend that I offend someone this way.
Jakkarra and I proceed to have an entertaining three hours playing like morons and comparing the intricacies of American and English gradeschools. Aside from using way too much "meme" talk, which I manage to stop, Jakkarra turns out to be an okay guy, and I can honestly say I like him now. That in itself is a dick thing to say, because it implies that I didn't before, but it's a very limited medium we all interact through. The topic of his semi-permanent muting and account-rustling problem comes up a few times, along with how his personality seems to make people dislike him.
We finish, and he decides to call it a night. Since my awesome power to fuck up any good situation hasn't flexed it's muscles enough yet, I start browsing the forum and mention that Janet posted that chatlog. Jakkarra gets sullen, and wholeheartedly agrees that I was being an asshole for saying mean things about him while talking to him. Oh what tangled webs we weave and so forth.
There's a lot of other things I could say, about a great many angles on this topic, but I won't. All am I going to say is, as of this moment, I'm sticking up for him. I don't want to be the badguy.