Well yeah... You're not wrong. Two of them would be relatives of mine. (I wouldn't be in there because I don't know anything about cars except how to drive them. I can fix your computer though.)
"Uh Oh. You Just Activated My Princess Mode!" What Happens When YOUR Alter Ego Kicks In?
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I never did trust the Khajit. They always seemed to be hiding something. They were just too smooth.
I played an orc for the berserk ability or (I forget the name) for the magic resistance.
Oh... seoul does like to stir up trouble, no doubt about that. Just ask anybody who has tangled with her in a debate.
In my defense, I like to bring up topics that, as a kid growing up in Lutheran church, always troubled me. And it upset me even more that no one was talking about these things openly. Even if someone tried, they were usually given a proper Holy Ghost beat-down for making an attempt. Many of my serious threads are these topics coming to surface in my adulthood, now that people (for the most part) can't stop me from starting discussions about them.
As for stirring up trouble, I can neither confirm nor deny these allegations.
In my defense, here is Seoulsearch's Playbook for Dealing With Online Trolls (Things I've Learned From Writing Threads Since 2009):
1. The more you engage with a troll, but specifically ask question designed to bring out their motivations (not just to fight,) the faster they'll show their hand -- and the faster the mods can decide whether or not that person's beliefs are in tune with the site's.
2. It's pointless to try to out-argue a troll. Sure, the back-and-forth can be fun at first, but eventually I get to a point where I tell myself, "Ok, I'm going to start running this one..." aka, putting out threads, one after the other, to see if they can keep up.
Depending on the situation, it can also be quite effective to take the very things they're saying and turn it into its own series of threads.
3. If in doubt, keep writing. Sure, they'll follow at first. But writing new threads creates new places in the forum that they'll eventually get bored of and give up trying to follow you (at least, in my experience.)
In the meantime, it can be fun to watch them brush you off, then count how many of your threads/posts they keep answering anyway, even though they've publicly declared that you're not worth listening to.
I was in a disagreement with someone a while back -- and decided to concentrate my energy on a thread about tacos instead. The person predictably showed up again, scoffing, "Is THIS the best you could do??!"
But what a lot of people don't realize is that I often need to write the fluffier threads to clear my mind and prepare my thought process at the same time I'm sorting out another idea. My next thread was about something serious, mentioning things like child prostitution, and low and behold -- the person who had ridiculed me didn't show up in that thread, and now just occasionally shows up in my current ones.
I guess they didn't realize it wasn't my first rodeo, and I just needed a little time (and a few more threads) to work out my true response to the original argument.
This is why I chose the moniker, "OutWrite Trouble."
I don't try to out-argue trolls -- I just try to outwrite them.
Eventually, they either show themselves as not adhering to site rules and are banned, or get bored, give up, and run off to troll someone else.
I keep saying that so far, it has a 100% success rate -- but I'm sure one of these days, I'm going to meet my match, and someone is going to outwrite ME. Back in the day, when the site was more active, we had a few that tried, and it was fun! Everyone likes a challenge!
Unfortunately for most, I am the world's most annoying combination of being not only a very determined nerd, but am also someone who has always chosen to spend most of her free time writing, so I don't give up easily.
I might take a break to think. I might write threads about tacos and pies and Mutant Ninja Turtles in between.
But in the back of my mind, if I think it's something worth answering, I'm still working on an answer.
It just might show up in the form of a different thread -- or an entire series.
Short version:In my defense, I like to bring up topics that, as a kid growing up in Lutheran church, always troubled me. And it upset me even more that no one was talking about these things openly. Even if someone tried, they were usually given a proper Holy Ghost beat-down for making an attempt. Many of my serious threads are these topics coming to surface in my adulthood, now that people (for the most part) can't stop me from starting discussions about them.
As for stirring up trouble, I can neither confirm nor deny these allegations.
In my defense, here is Seoulsearch's Playbook for Dealing With Online Trolls (Things I've Learned From Writing Threads Since 2009):
1. The more you engage with a troll, but specifically ask question designed to bring out their motivations (not just to fight,) the faster they'll show their hand -- and the faster the mods can decide whether or not that person's beliefs are in tune with the site's.
2. It's pointless to try to out-argue a troll. Sure, the back-and-forth can be fun at first, but eventually I get to a point where I tell myself, "Ok, I'm going to start running this one..." aka, putting out threads, one after the other, to see if they can keep up.
Depending on the situation, it can also be quite effective to take the very things they're saying and turn it into its own series of threads.
3. If in doubt, keep writing. Sure, they'll follow at first. But writing new threads creates new places in the forum that they'll eventually get bored of and give up trying to follow you (at least, in my experience.)
In the meantime, it can be fun to watch them brush you off, then count how many of your threads/posts they keep answering anyway, even though they've publicly declared that you're not worth listening to.
I was in a disagreement with someone a while back -- and decided to concentrate my energy on a thread about tacos instead. The person predictably showed up again, scoffing, "Is THIS the best you could do??!"
But what a lot of people don't realize is that I often need to write the fluffier threads to clear my mind and prepare my thought process at the same time I'm sorting out another idea. My next thread was about something serious, mentioning things like child prostitution, and low and behold -- the person who had ridiculed me didn't show up in that thread, and now just occasionally shows up in my current ones.
I guess they didn't realize it wasn't my first rodeo, and I just needed a little time (and a few more threads) to work out my true response to the original argument.
This is why I chose the moniker, "OutWrite Trouble."
I don't try to out-argue trolls -- I just try to outwrite them.
Eventually, they either show themselves as not adhering to site rules and are banned, or get bored, give up, and run off to troll someone else.
I keep saying that so far, it has a 100% success rate -- but I'm sure one of these days, I'm going to meet my match, and someone is going to outwrite ME. Back in the day, when the site was more active, we had a few that tried, and it was fun! Everyone likes a challenge!
Unfortunately for most, I am the world's most annoying combination of being not only a very determined nerd, but am also someone who has always chosen to spend most of her free time writing, so I don't give up easily.
I might take a break to think. I might write threads about tacos and pies and Mutant Ninja Turtles in between.
But in the back of my mind, if I think it's something worth answering, I'm still working on an answer.
It just might show up in the form of a different thread -- or an entire series.
"I didn't invent burnout as a weapon. I just perfected it."
LOL!!!
"Weapon" is such a harsh word, Lynxsus!!
I prefer to call it, "Redirection."
I'm simply redirecting people's attention.
Regular readers, and sometimes a few new ones, will follow you to new threads -- leaving the trolls to eventually set their sights on easier prey.
Actually this reminds me a lot of a dog my cousin used to have. She was a miniature Greyhound and her name was peanut for some reason.In my defense, I like to bring up topics that, as a kid growing up in Lutheran church, always troubled me. And it upset me even more that no one was talking about these things openly. Even if someone tried, they were usually given a proper Holy Ghost beat-down for making an attempt. Many of my serious threads are these topics coming to surface in my adulthood, now that people (for the most part) can't stop me from starting discussions about them.
As for stirring up trouble, I can neither confirm nor deny these allegations.
In my defense, here is Seoulsearch's Playbook for Dealing With Online Trolls (Things I've Learned From Writing Threads Since 2009):
1. The more you engage with a troll, but specifically ask question designed to bring out their motivations (not just to fight,) the faster they'll show their hand -- and the faster the mods can decide whether or not that person's beliefs are in tune with the site's.
2. It's pointless to try to out-argue a troll. Sure, the back-and-forth can be fun at first, but eventually I get to a point where I tell myself, "Ok, I'm going to start running this one..." aka, putting out threads, one after the other, to see if they can keep up.
Depending on the situation, it can also be quite effective to take the very things they're saying and turn it into its own series of threads.
3. If in doubt, keep writing. Sure, they'll follow at first. But writing new threads creates new places in the forum that they'll eventually get bored of and give up trying to follow you (at least, in my experience.)
In the meantime, it can be fun to watch them brush you off, then count how many of your threads/posts they keep answering anyway, even though they've publicly declared that you're not worth listening to.
I was in a disagreement with someone a while back -- and decided to concentrate my energy on a thread about tacos instead. The person predictably showed up again, scoffing, "Is THIS the best you could do??!"
But what a lot of people don't realize is that I often need to write the fluffier threads to clear my mind and prepare my thought process at the same time I'm sorting out another idea. My next thread was about something serious, mentioning things like child prostitution, and low and behold -- the person who had ridiculed me didn't show up in that thread, and now just occasionally shows up in my current ones.
I guess they didn't realize it wasn't my first rodeo, and I just needed a little time (and a few more threads) to work out my true response to the original argument.
This is why I chose the moniker, "OutWrite Trouble."
I don't try to out-argue trolls -- I just try to outwrite them.
Eventually, they either show themselves as not adhering to site rules and are banned, or get bored, give up, and run off to troll someone else.
I keep saying that so far, it has a 100% success rate -- but I'm sure one of these days, I'm going to meet my match, and someone is going to outwrite ME. Back in the day, when the site was more active, we had a few that tried, and it was fun! Everyone likes a challenge!
Unfortunately for most, I am the world's most annoying combination of being not only a very determined nerd, but am also someone who has always chosen to spend most of her free time writing, so I don't give up easily.
I might take a break to think. I might write threads about tacos and pies and Mutant Ninja Turtles in between.
But in the back of my mind, if I think it's something worth answering, I'm still working on an answer.
It just might show up in the form of a different thread -- or an entire series.
This dog embodied the title of the song, born to run. My cousin often had to put her in a pen to keep her from literally running herself to death. She couldn't eat as much as she ran off.
Occasionally I would take my bicycle out for a spin and she would run with me. It was a beautiful thing to watch the exact moment when she realized she was running with somebody who could actually keep pace with her. She would stretch out and get long and low and really start putting her heart into the run.
That's the picture I always have in my mind when a troll deliberately tries to outpost seoul. "Ooooh, challenge accepted!"
Lol!
You know what's funny...
I have sometimes contemplated that maybe there would come a day when I'd meet someone who started out as what seemed like my arch nemesis here -- and actually WOULD outwrite me (and it's not that people can't -- plenty could, it's just that they're not used to writing threads or want to spend their time on other things) -- and we would wind up falling madly in love because that was the person God had for me.
Now at first thought, my own stubbornness absolutely SHUDDERS in rebellion at the very thought!
But, we all know that God has been known to do things like this from time to time.
Le sigh.
What good would that do for you? If he was just like you, you wouldn't need each other.Lol!
You know what's funny...
I have sometimes contemplated that maybe there would come a day when I'd meet someone who started out as what seemed like my arch nemesis here -- and actually WOULD outwrite me (and it's not that people can't -- plenty could, it's just that they're not used to writing threads or want to spend their time on other things) -- and we would wind up falling madly in love because that was the person God had for me.
Now at first thought, my own stubbornness absolutely SHUDDERS in rebellion at the very thought!
But, we all know that God has been known to do things like this from time to time.
Le sigh.
Lol!
You know what's funny...
I have sometimes contemplated that maybe there would come a day when I'd meet someone who started out as what seemed like my arch nemesis here -- and actually WOULD outwrite me (and it's not that people can't -- plenty could, it's just that they're not used to writing threads or want to spend their time on other things) -- and we would wind up falling madly in love because that was the person God had for me.
Now at first thought, my own stubbornness absolutely SHUDDERS in rebellion at the very thought!
But, we all know that God has been known to do things like this from time to time.
Le sigh.
It depends.
I know you always say you want someone who is good at the things you're not and isn't exactly like you -- or else you wouldn't be of any use to each other. I agree up to a point. There also has to be a balance of having something in common, and enough of it.
I've only met one other writer that I got close to, and even then, it's not a guarantee because I've met other writers -- but were into completely different types of writing or subjects I couldn't get into.
When I used to write inmates, they old me that my letters always came across as me sitting in the same room and having a real-time conversation with the reader, and that's what I strive to try to keep improving. It was important to me because these were guys with LWOP (life without parole,) who would never see the light of day outside a prison again. And they told me that the types of letters I wrote was a key part to them keeping their humanity, and not just giving up on everything.
If that type of writing can encourage someone in prison to find hope and a purpose, imagine what it can do for the everyday person.
I see it as a very specific type of writing that is rare to come across, and of course, with social media, is becoming a non-existent skill.
I would love to meet someone who is not only gifted in that area, but also better at it than me so that I could learn how to be more effective. After all, the Bible tells us that iron sharpens iron, and in order for that to happen, you have to have two people who are both made out of iron. They have to have something in common that keeps pushing each of them to do better.
Something I've come to realize over the years is that if I get into a relationship again, he would have to understand that sometimes, I'd need to take a step back and communicate in writing. So I might say, "Give me some time on this one..." and two days later, he'd find a 10-page letter on his desk.
Even more fantastic than finding the one who could not only understand and accept this -- would be the one who could write me a 20-page letter back.
Not because he felt he had too, but because he wanted to, and used writing as a supplement (not a substitute,) for the spoken words that were eluding us both at the time.
Oh... seoul does like to stir up trouble, no doubt about that. Just ask anybody who has tangled with her in a debate.
Humm looks like I'm gonna have to watch her a little more closely...
of course they are. but fun for role-playing as a rouge, or a kleptomaniac warrior and defender of all that is right and good.
I used to have an alterego. I called it the legendary one. I would break out of shyness and insecurity and would act like the rock to my friends an family. I entertained and owned the stage. I did this in youth group at church. Times change, i am now an old man, who cannot dance anymore.