The "yet another thread ruined by ABF" Thread

[A Black Falcon]

If you hadn't gotten involved maybe DJ would have continued the conversation we had started, but now that won't happen... a typical reaction of others whenever we start arguing. But the fact that it generally goes fine without you around (I don't know about the other way around) is something you should take to mean that there is nothing so horribly wrong about how I act. It's mostly how you take what I say to mean and how YOU act. Oh, sure, in plenty of cases I've said something I shouldn't, but to me anyway it always feels like I'm trying to talk about whatever subject I thought we were talking about while you spend most of your time insulting me for spurious reasons. And it makes me just not want to talk with you much at all because I know that you will never listen for one second to anything I have to say and will never begin to consider anything, period. And that not fun at all to be on the other side of.

I mean... look at this post! I make several long posts criticizing in detail the small interface features which annoyed me. And you, instead of saying some ways I could circumvent them or some ways that they aren't as big of a problem as I said they were (which is what I would call a decent response that most reasonable human beings who wanted to talk about it would follow), just insulted me. Which goes nowhere. So I tried to restate it and add some things. And you might respond (often inaccurately) with a heated tone about one sentence, and fill the rest with insults. That is not the way to debate and not the way to conduct a conversation! It REALLY feels like I'm constantly trying to actually for ONCE have a conversation that is reasoned and covers the subject at hand (like, here, KotOR's design and interface) but that you won't respond in kind. And since that is true you'd probably be better off acting like a lot of other people here and not saying anything at all, if that's how you want to act.