Renzatic on 21/9/2013 at 04:16
Bacon pancakes, makin' bacon pancakes,
Take some bacon and I'll put it in a pancake,
Bacon pancakes, that's what it's gonna make,
Bacon pancake!
Renzatic on 21/9/2013 at 04:20
Ahem. SO ANY-FUCKING-WAY...
Deth. Sir. I don't think the problem is about what you like or don't like exactly, it's that you don't even seem interested in considering it if it's outside what you current define as your comfort zone.
It's like "I don't like TV, therefore I won't watch anything on TV no matter how good you say it is. Period. Nothing will change my mind, so just shut up. Quit suggesting things. GOD YOU PEOPLE ARE HORRIBLE! I DON'T CARE! I DON'T CARE! I DON'T CARE"!
...you know, it's like if you...just...gave a quarter of an inch, these conversations wouldn't happen.
june gloom on 21/9/2013 at 07:27
Actually it's more like this:
"You should watch X Show."
"I don't really watch TV."
"BUT YOU SHOULD REALLY WATCH IT"
"I'm not interested."
"GOD WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? DON'T YOU HAVE ANY TASTE? YOU'RE SO FUCKING INFLEXIBLE!!!"
Or how about a less theoretical example:
"You should buy this weird quirky indie coop game you've never heard of"
"I'm not going to spend money I don't have on something I'm not sure I'll enjoy. Not a third time."
"OMG WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU! JUST BUY IT! YOU'LL HAVE FUN! I PROMISE!"
"If you're that hard up for me to play the game, buy it for me."
"GOD JUST BUY IT DO YOU HATE US OR SOMETHING?"
As it turns out, I'm kind of starting to! <3
Sulphur on 21/9/2013 at 08:08
I think it's well-established that deth only likes things that he thinks he discovered on his own, or can self-validate without external phenomena like friendly recommendations. I had the most incredible time trying to tell him The Last of Us was good and I got a whole bunch of shit about, 'It's Naughty Dog. I don't care for them. What have they done? Jak and Crash Bandicoot, lol.' And, 'I'm tired of post-apocalyptic games anyway, so I don't care, okay?'
And then he goes and plays it anyway. It's like he's got some sort of internalised hipster traits that give him an embolism every time people have the temerity to suggest something to him. It's no one's loss, really. Certainly not ours. Leave it be.
june gloom on 21/9/2013 at 08:26
Yeah, but I got the game for free.
Y'all need to learn I'm pretty much terminally broke. I'm not going to pull the trigger unless it's a sure thing.
Sulphur on 21/9/2013 at 08:31
Beside the point. Cost doesn't explain the behaviour in any of the above, or in this entire thread - if it did, it would be open/shut with a simple: 'It may be good, but I can't afford to do this right now,' instead of continuing after that with a bunch of crap going on about the company or the type of game or the type of show or whatever. And even if cost did explain this specific instance with TLoU, it was 'free' - your friend bought it for you because he/she owed you that amount of money.
june gloom on 21/9/2013 at 09:00
Except you're the one who brought up the company's pedigree in an attempt to get me to care -- and I told you it was meaningless to me, which set you off like I'd just insulted you racially or something. You can claim I'm a hipster for getting the game anyway but that doesn't make it true. I was mildly interested in the game, but without the money to get it I couldn't get too excited for it, particularly given that it wasn't a sure thing.
Here's the fundamental thing you're not getting: don't push me to get into something, especially if it costs money. I do not have money. What little cash I do have goes into groceries. If I buy a game it's usually at a ridiculously steep discount, like I got Prototype for like 5 bucks and freaked out about the hit to my bank account for days. I really don't think you've ever lived in poverty, or you'd understand the mentality that drives people to be grateful for a 35 cent raise and cry when mac and cheese drops on the floor.
Don't push me to watch a TV show either, because TV is not a medium I enjoy. It's like asking your grandma or someone to play Uncharted 2 or something. She's not going to want to because video games aren't a medium she enjoys. Are you going to turn that into a moral referendum on her?
If I say I'm not interested, even after you've made an attempt to sell me on it, you need to respect that, instead of acting like I'm some kind of socially deficient hipster.
What's with you lately? You've turned into a real prick.
Sulphur on 21/9/2013 at 09:12
Me? Hahahahahaha.
I live in India. I've had less access to an enormous amount of things you take for granted, like a decent public transportation system that doesn't end up getting you killed or disgusted or both. So don't play that card with me.
I'm not talking about your financial situation, as your little attempt to divert the focus on your behaviour has nothing to do with this. You're not well off, well, we know that. You want to act like an asshole because of that, I'm sorry, you're not going to get sympathetic postcards about it. You don't stop at, 'Don't got the dosh, too bad.' No, instead, it's 'Oh, I don't have the money, and if you want to bang on about this game, let me just ridicule the entire company and your opinion about it because fuck you, asshole.'
And I'm the prick. Stop posting. You're just hurting yourself.
june gloom on 21/9/2013 at 09:14
Yeah, you. I'm an asshole, everyone knows that, that's nothing new and it hasn't changed. You used to be less of one.
And just because you grew up in a substantially poorer country than mine does not make the fact that I am below the poverty line in my own country any less crushing, nor do I feel any better about it. No money is no money. So the Gange Pontoon Bus in your neck of the woods isn't safe and someone falls off every day? That's a shame, but it doesn't make me feel any better about trying to decide if I should buy groceries or save my money for when I really need it.
june gloom on 21/9/2013 at 09:26
You stop editing your fucking post.
