I avoided replying to the grandparent comment out of expectations of hostility; then I thought I didn’t have a sufficient basis for that impression; now I find that my initial impression was justified.
So your end goal as far as this discussion is concerned is for me to get so irritated with you as to lose patience to engage in any further discussion.
My end goal was to maybe sort of manage to get along with you.
Phrasing doesn’t equal content, a misinterpreted aside at the end in brackets doesn’t equal my “end goal”. That inference is, the PC term is questionable, but I’d really like to say ridiculous.
Fighting against pyromaniacs is usually a losing battle, the lightshow as the house burns down is just too damn enticing for the onlookers and one often gets burned either way. I’m tapping out and hoping that people of the “yay public persecution” persuasion don’t manage to further detract from my LW experience.
More like giving the higher kyu player in Go handicap stones. Which of course, according to you, means the better Go player really wants to lose as his/her end goal.
Giving someone an option != “would really like you to do that” != (with emphasis!) someone’s ‘end goal’
Spelling it out for you, to save you from potential future embarrassments.
I avoided replying to the grandparent comment out of expectations of hostility; then I thought I didn’t have a sufficient basis for that impression; now I find that my initial impression was justified.
So your end goal as far as this discussion is concerned is for me to get so irritated with you as to lose patience to engage in any further discussion.
My end goal was to maybe sort of manage to get along with you.
What’s it gonna be?
Phrasing doesn’t equal content, a misinterpreted aside at the end in brackets doesn’t equal my “end goal”. That inference is, the PC term is questionable, but I’d really like to say ridiculous.
Fighting against pyromaniacs is usually a losing battle, the lightshow as the house burns down is just too damn enticing for the onlookers and one often gets burned either way. I’m tapping out and hoping that people of the “yay public persecution” persuasion don’t manage to further detract from my LW experience.
“tapping out on the basis of your antagonism” = “me getting so irritated with you that I lose patience to engage in any further discussion”
“tapping out” = “refusing to engage in any further discussion”
“antagonism” = “the reason why I am irritated and lose patience”
“I’m doing X to give you the option to” = “I’d really like you to”
It’s not magic.
More like giving the higher kyu player in Go handicap stones. Which of course, according to you, means the better Go player really wants to lose as his/her end goal.
Giving someone an option != “would really like you to do that” != (with emphasis!) someone’s ‘end goal’
Spelling it out for you, to save you from potential future embarrassments.