I vomited.

[Omi]

[words]

inb4 way way way too serious for flood

Okay, so basically if you cut all the waffle out you're upset because I was rude to you in the past, and somehow that combined with you walking into a pirate encounter and expecting a barrel of laughs out of it means you can justify accusing me of "targeting" and "humiliating" you - not your character, you personally, despite my telling you over and over again that that's not the case.

This is leaving aside the fact that the only reason I even found out you were upset was that you decided to make little passive-aggressive snipey posts with smiley faces on them in a Flood thread, rather than (shock horror) approach me directly in some other manner or deciding to maybe just not whinge about it in public. How on Earth can you sit there and accuse me of having no social skills when this is how you act? You're making a direct attack on me and insinuating that I'm out to get you, I call you out on it, and suddenly we're in full reverse gear mode with you trying to declare that 'everything will be better in future'? Sorry, but it doesn't work that way. How can you accuse me of baiting you into a reaction when it's entirely your fault we're having this argument? You couldn't stop yourself from playing the passive-aggressive victim game, or whatever your posts were meant to accomplish, but somehow it's me who's instigated a 'reaction' from you? All you've proven is that I'm still the most easily baited guy ever when it comes to forum arguments, and to be honest pretty much everyone knew that about me anyway.

Seriously, all you had to do was either approach directly and sort out your little niggling grievances, but instead you were the one who chose to blank me as hard as you could in-game, going so far as to pre-empt a demand with a /givecash before I'd even opened my mouth. Technically, it wasn't even a pirate encounter, but you keep coming back to it as if I was genuinely threatening to bury you and your transport six feet under instead of joshing you around. You're the one blurring the lines between IC and OOC here, not me. You were the one who assumed the worst straight from the get-go, assuming that I was out for blood and that if you moved even an inch I'd send you six feet under, and you were the one who went off to the forums to go sniping about how terrible it all was in Flood. You can't sit there and lecture me about no social skills and self-fulfilling prophecies in your position - I didn't make you be so abrupt and dismissive iRP or ooRP, nor did I force you to take the long way around simply to avoid little old me. The TAZ there knew how to deal with sh*t he didn't wanna see, and didn't even have to break character once to do it. I feel like you were long gone from any semblance of immersion by the time we were done, but how much of that is my fault compared to how you reacted to me?

Maybe it is better for both our sakes that you keep me out of your safe-space bubble, because it seems like nothing I say or do can ever be right in your ideal little world. It doesn't help that the only place to defend myself against your allegations about myself, my character, and my motivations for logging in is on the forums in public for everyone else to see, but I'm not the one allergic to Skype contact requests, nor do I consider my PM inbox closed. I don't see how you can launch such vigorous accusations against my personality when you're the one sparking this fire off in the first place. All I'm doing (other than looking stupid and stressing myself out because I keep taking the bait, but smh it's too hard) is making sure people don't get the wrong idea and think you have any evidence to base your little barbed comments off.

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