Uh-Oh!
Lot's of sparks flying around... but just a few words in defense of my "arch-nemesis in-gamewise". Yes, she will jump on me for not needing anyone to defend her.
But I must second Macalaure there: there seems to be too much bitterness over here to just ignore it. Somehow this remainds me about a mob lynching... but not an in-game one. Thank you Spm for trying to find the middle-ground here.
Roa's playing style is many times a bit abrasive or even aggressive (mine sometimes is too, even though not always). Now I must say that I have wittnessed quite a full-frontal attack on her playing style, partly on the grounds that she makes value-judgements of others playing styles... I could see some point in Roa's claim about hypocrisy here.
I fully agree with the points that we should not go on picking others and their gaming - saying what is right and what is wrong in any objective or personal level. Hurting others feelings surely isn't what we should be doing here. At the same time I'm inclined to believe in Roa's sincerity about her intentions. Her style of writing may just muddy the waters and help people to take an over-defensive stance before they even read what she actually says.
Roa has been accused here partly of her personal characteristics in unison, with some quite heavy bombardment. I don't think reading those posts has made Roa feel nice. Even though I don't think this to be a discussion of Roa vs. the others, it probably isn't too far fetched to understand Roa feeling like secluded from or scorned by many of the others because of her personality and her views on gaming etc. And that I feel is bad too, quite contrary to what has been called for here by Spm and many others.
So to end this quarrell and to set things right again we should try to be nice, everyone of us, not only Roa.
Thanks Valier for the refreshing comment in the middle of this speculation into which I myself too have fallen back.
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Originally Posted by Spm
Well, if we accept his apology as genuine (which both you and I do), he obviously felt that there was something to apologise for.
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Yes I did. It was one of my post-game posts that got a bit out of hand as I look at it on retrospect. Although there seems to have been also some linguistics involved too (f.ex. to my ear saying that something is pathetic has always rang as saying something more in a register of fun than actually hurting others...but now I'm afraid I've been wrong with that too).