yeah, sounds like a reputable poster to me too, though i guess i too would find someone who agrees with me on an internet forum to be more reputable than someone who doesn't...
Actually, I was basing that assessment on Cathbadh's other posts... the ones I've seen, at least. I have no problem with someone disagreeing with me, either. In fact, I generally welcome it as an opportunity to expand upon a topic and explore it more deeply. Without disagreement, a subject will not be explored as fully as it ought to be.
However, I do prefer such disagreements to take the form of rational arguments. I responded to the few points you made; you did
not respond to my responses. Instead, you responded to everything
but those—apparently, in an attempt to resolve the discussion in your favor through belittling me and my discursive skills, rather than actually addressing the subject matter itself.
though honestly, i don't see what your problem is...
Like that, for instance: suggesting (stating, rather) that I have a "problem."
i have no problem with someone disagreeing with one of my ideas or posts, but why make it personal? why attack me verbally? why question my sense of decency? why take offense when i disagree with you?
I stand on my previous responses here.
why bother? is it boredom? do you not get out much? i mean seriously, what makes a grown man jump on a game forum with a bunch of teenagers and college students to get his rocks off insulting and verbally attacking other players?
And again to
ad hominem. At least you're consistent.... Though this time you are also belittling all the "teenagers and college students," suggesting that they are somehow inferior to me. As well as insulting me yet again by implying that I regard them as such.
and if this offends you, so be it, cause as far as i can see, nothing in my original post provoked you to try and belittle me and insult me
I did nothing of the sort. I merely pointed out the irony of the fact that the person objecting the most strenuously to the proposed change was one of the wealthiest players in the game... one of those best able to deal with the change. And I disputed your statement concerning the difficulty of higher-level players in gathering gold. I said nothing beyond that. You were the one who began the personal attacks. And are the one continuing them. This statement is merely another such
ad hominem attempt to distract attention from the topic itself.
i guess it's useless assuming you will let it go
Ad hominem—once more. No I won't: not until you do. At least not the parts where you are launching attacks on me, rather than responding to my ideas. Convince me you are correct, and I will acknowledge it—right here in this thread. As I always do when someone convinces me of something, or corrects an error I have made.
so i will have to refrain from posting further about this topic, which saddens me as i'd like to contribute to this new idea, but i'm now discouraged to do so, and seeing as you have a potential new ally in your proverbial pissing contest, i will just let it go...
You by no means will "have" to do any such thing. Go right ahead. Contribute to the idea. You haven't been, not since your original post. If that's all you have to add, then I guess you have nothing to be concerned about. If you do have anything to add, I may disagree with it—or I may
agree with it... and you do me a major disservice by not observing that I actually
did agree with you on several points. Or I may not comment on it at all. Once again, you are trying to distract people from the issue by attacking me rather than addressing my points... or anyone else's: if you have something to say about those, why not add that? And you are insulting me yet again in the process, by implying that I will automatically disparage anything you say, rather than analyzing it and responding logically—assuming I respond at all. And that
does "offend" me. All the more so, given that you have no evidence whatsoever to point to that would even remotely support such a claim.
If, on the other hand, you are the sort of person who is not satisfied unless he gets the last word in—I have no idea if you are or not, just mentioning it—then I hereby grant you the opportunity. Simply declare this matter closed—
without making any more personal attacks on me in the process—and I will regard it so.
And as for "allies": I require none in this matter. Though I would not be so ungrateful as to fail to appreciate all support given; it is always warmly welcomed.