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Solstice Project's Alt
Doomheim
#221 - 2013-10-20 15:07:55 UTC
Skeln Thargensen wrote:
tsk tsk forums alts in calling people cowardly shocker.

i'm just RP a sarcastic **** don't worry <3
Are you telling me that i'm hiding behind a forum alt,
to avoid that people know who my main is ? o_O

That idea is too funny ................... xD

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#222 - 2013-10-20 15:08:14 UTC
Ramona McCandless wrote:
Varius Xeral wrote:
limp-wristed cowards in a video game are also spineless limp-wristed cowards in real life


Again with the camp-hate

tut tut

Its like this is thread going down THAT path again



For real. You probably know my story. Wrists don't really have a thing to do with sexual orientation in either direction.

But comments like that do tell a lot about the person saying them, and most indeed.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Varius Xeral
Doomheim
#223 - 2013-10-20 15:08:24 UTC
I'm not really sure what you're getting at here, but "limp-wristed" is not an offensive term. It has nothing to do with sexual orientation, if that is what you are imagining.

Official Representative of The Nullsec Zealot Cabal
Skeln Thargensen
Doomheim
#224 - 2013-10-20 15:09:21 UTC
Solstice Project's Alt wrote:
Skeln Thargensen wrote:
tsk tsk forums alts in calling people cowardly shocker.

i'm just RP a sarcastic **** don't worry <3
Are you telling me that i'm hiding behind a forum alt,
to avoid that people know who my main is ? o_O

That idea is too funny ................... xD


not you Roll

forums.  serious business.
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#225 - 2013-10-20 15:10:02 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:



For real. You probably know my story. Wrists don't really have a thing to do with sexual orientation in either direction.

But comments like that do tell a lot about the person saying them, and most indeed.



Agreed.


And no sarcasm or nonsense


Sometimes we do agree on things, Krixxy

"Yea, some dude came in and was normal for first couple months, so I gave him director." - Sean Dunaway

"A singular character could be hired to penetrate another corps space... using gorilla like tactics..." - Chane Morgann
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#226 - 2013-10-20 15:10:06 UTC
Kaarous Aldurald wrote:


I'll thank you not to project your own issues onto my family, however.


Then don't publicly post about your family issues in the first place.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#227 - 2013-10-20 15:10:59 UTC
Varius Xeral wrote:
I'm not really sure what you're getting at here, but "limp-wristed" is not an offensive term. It has nothing to do with sexual orientation, if that is what you are imagining.


I believe it referred to weakness, originally intended to characterize someone who was too flimsy to hold a spear and a shield. Probably Greek in origin, given their love of foot soldiering.

"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."

One of ours, ten of theirs.

Best Meltdown Ever.
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#228 - 2013-10-20 15:11:04 UTC
Varius Xeral wrote:
I'm not really sure what you're getting at here, but "limp-wristed" is not an offensive term. It has nothing to do with sexual orientation, if that is what you are imagining.


Oh look. Its THAT thread again.

Keep it in necro-posts, churchy

"Yea, some dude came in and was normal for first couple months, so I gave him director." - Sean Dunaway

"A singular character could be hired to penetrate another corps space... using gorilla like tactics..." - Chane Morgann
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#229 - 2013-10-20 15:11:42 UTC
Varius Xeral wrote:
I'm not really sure what you're getting at here, but "limp-wristed" is not an offensive term. It has nothing to do with sexual orientation, if that is what you are imagining.


Go ahead and try to make me have great denial over my own personal experience with that phrase over a 48 year period of witnessing it's usage.

It's simply not going to happen.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Solstice Project's Alt
Doomheim
#230 - 2013-10-20 15:12:25 UTC
Skeln Thargensen wrote:
not you Roll
:(

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Varius Xeral
Doomheim
#231 - 2013-10-20 15:12:31 UTC
Limp-wristed means someone who always finds everything "too hard"; generally adverse to any effort or present discomfort for future reward.

Official Representative of The Nullsec Zealot Cabal
Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#232 - 2013-10-20 15:12:40 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Kaarous Aldurald wrote:


I'll thank you not to project your own issues onto my family, however.


Then don't publicly post about your family issues in the first place.


It was an analogy, numbskull. You're the fool who called me out for "child abuse", the blame lies with you and you alone.

"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."

One of ours, ten of theirs.

Best Meltdown Ever.
Varius Xeral
Doomheim
#233 - 2013-10-20 15:14:59 UTC
Hey, if you misunderstand the meaning of a word, that's your problem, not everyone else's.

I could start taking unattributable offense to any word i want, doesn't mean others need accommodate my idiosyncrasies. Ironically, that kind of thinking is perfectly in-line with the running theme of people who are just too emotionally weak in real life to even play a gd video game without crying the entire time.

Talk about a running theme here.

Official Representative of The Nullsec Zealot Cabal
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#234 - 2013-10-20 15:16:39 UTC
Varius Xeral wrote:
Limp-wristed means someone who always finds everything "too hard"; generally adverse to any effort or present discomfort for future reward.



Troll on trolly.

Plenty of other places for you to do this

"Yea, some dude came in and was normal for first couple months, so I gave him director." - Sean Dunaway

"A singular character could be hired to penetrate another corps space... using gorilla like tactics..." - Chane Morgann
Velicitia
XS Tech
#235 - 2013-10-20 15:17:56 UTC
Darko Atlante wrote:
Remiel Pollard wrote:
I'm about to go to bed, so I won't be around for a few hours to see or respond to immediate replies to this thread, but I would like to see some discussion about encouraging players to leave NPC corps. I know this discussion has occurred before, but it seems to have fallen off the radar, and a conversation with some associates of mine has sparked a few ideas that I think we can hash out and debug.


We should focus on encouraging players to leave NPC corps, any idea that forces players to leave NPC corps, then you might as well close those NPC corps. I'm not convinced that there is a problem, are high sec wardeccers out of industrials and rookie ships to kill in trade hubs?

I've played this game alone, for one year on two accounts I played this game mostly doing industrial and spreadsheets in space, because I joined this game because of the market and player made modules and ships. Some people actually love that part of the game, I didn't stay in NPC corp, I made a 2 man corp and never got wardeced.

Everyone who play this game long enough will eventually do PvP, we have got to give people time and be patient not forcing them out into pvp corps with arrogant statements.


I remember back when I started, the "encouragement" was that the belts were (more or less) always barren.

Belts only respawned on Mondays and Fridays (consequently, Wed/Thu was the best time to sell), and the mining corps in the area I lived in were usually getting the Dense Veld and Concentrated Scord in short order. Not to mention the "problems" with the can flippers and other undesireables that prey (more) on those without a ticker.

These days, there's no incentive to have a ticker ... belts spawn daily, flippers go yellow to the entire system, and other vaious nerfs and buffs that have affected other professions all combine to make it no better or worse to fly with a group. About all a group (in hisec) can offer is POS Labs.

I posted this idea in F&I after reading the few pages that were in this thread last night as an "incentive" for being in a corp again.

One of the bitter points of a good bittervet is the realisation that all those SP don't really do much, and that the newbie is having much more fun with what little he has. - Tippia
Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#236 - 2013-10-20 15:18:07 UTC
Varius Xeral wrote:
Hey, if you misunderstand the meaning of a word, that's your problem, not everyone else's.

I could start taking unattributable offense to any word i want, doesn't mean others need accommodate my idiosyncrasies. Ironically, that kind of thinking is perfectly in-line with the running theme of people who are just too emotionally weak in real life to even play a gd video game without crying the entire time.

Talk about a running theme here.


I once knew someone who took grievous offense at being called a claustrophobic. "I am NOT! I just don't like enclosed spaces!"

"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."

One of ours, ten of theirs.

Best Meltdown Ever.
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#237 - 2013-10-20 15:19:30 UTC
Kaarous Aldurald wrote:
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Kaarous Aldurald wrote:


I'll thank you not to project your own issues onto my family, however.


Then don't publicly post about your family issues in the first place.


It was an analogy, numbskull. You're the fool who called me out for "child abuse", the blame lies with you and you alone.



It is not at all my fault.

You posted the personal detail. You are going to get both positive and negative responses, just like in real life.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#238 - 2013-10-20 15:20:45 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Kaarous Aldurald wrote:
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Kaarous Aldurald wrote:


I'll thank you not to project your own issues onto my family, however.


Then don't publicly post about your family issues in the first place.


It was an analogy, numbskull. You're the fool who called me out for "child abuse", the blame lies with you and you alone.



It is not at all my fault.

You posted the personal detail. You are going to get both positive and negative responses, just like in real life.


None of which permits you to project your daddy issues onto my own familial interactions and thereby accuse me of child abuse.

You were completely, 100% in the wrong for that.

"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."

One of ours, ten of theirs.

Best Meltdown Ever.
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#239 - 2013-10-20 15:24:10 UTC  |  Edited by: Krixtal Icefluxor
Varius Xeral wrote:
Limp-wristed means someone who always finds everything "too hard"; generally adverse to any effort or present discomfort for future reward.



Limp Wrist:

"Limp Wrist is a United States punk rock band, who formed in 1998. Featuring members of Los Crudos, Hail Mary, Devoid of Faith, and Kill the Man Who Questions, the band plays short, fast hardcore music, and covers themes concerning the gay community in their live performances and lyrics."


......to 'retake ownership" of this oft abused phrase. Apparently YOU are the only one unaware of this use of the phrase, which is honestly rather freaky (I'm taking you as serious and not Troll).

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#240 - 2013-10-20 15:25:20 UTC
Kaarous Aldurald wrote:
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Kaarous Aldurald wrote:
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Kaarous Aldurald wrote:


I'll thank you not to project your own issues onto my family, however.


Then don't publicly post about your family issues in the first place.


It was an analogy, numbskull. You're the fool who called me out for "child abuse", the blame lies with you and you alone.



It is not at all my fault.

You posted the personal detail. You are going to get both positive and negative responses, just like in real life.


None of which permits you to project your daddy issues onto my own familial interactions and thereby accuse me of child abuse.

You were completely, 100% in the wrong for that.



You sure are fighting mighty hard for something you otherwise seem to feel is so innocuous.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882