28th March 2005, 11:36 PM
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Originally Posted by OB1
Hey if you want Perfect Dark 0 just wait for Time Splitters 2!
This is exactly what I said you said earlier. I later said that was just a paraphrase, something I should have said in THAT post.
Later I said the "PD killer" comment, but I never said you actually said it, just that that's what I took from it. Relax OB1, no one's attacking you here. Um, okay, I'M not attacking you here.
I didn't "falsly accuse" you of anything. You said something that could have easily been taken to mean that, especially in context, and I mistook it to mean that. That's all that happened. Basically, we were BOTH right and BOTH wrong here. I was wrong in my interpretation, though righ that you said something that, in the context, could be easily mistaken for it. You were right in that you didn't MEAN what I thought you said (but to me, it's close enough, I really don't care, you were right I guess).
Okay, now anyway, here's the thing. In the future, this WILL happen again. People ARE going to say you said something you didn't EXACTLY say, and you meant something else, but maybe you said something that could be taken that way. The only thing I request is that, WHEN it happens again, you don't take it so seriously. Don't assume a great injustice has been done. Can't you assume a misunderstanding? It doesn't need to be an extreme. All I'm saying is that you could merely say "maybe I said something that sounded like that, but either I didn't make myself entirely clear or you misunderstood me". That is how people deal with each other, politely and assuming misunderstanding to knowing slander.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)