Gman Russell wrote:
Ari: I hope you aren't seriously ruled by what makes you popular? That's extremely shallow.
No, but I do feel superior to that guy over there who wrote an enormous megapost about his involvement in a conspiracy to destroy a micronation. I mean, I think emotional maturity involves recognising emotional immaturity (incidentally, my realising how ridiculous my nerdraging back in http://shireroth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=146702#p146702 was a pretty important step to gain this understanding)... and moreover recognising when there's just no point in even trying to show someone how ridiculous they're being. When someone's so far gone that he's giving awesomemccool Operation Death-causing Deathbringers of Death names to bloody Antican jokes and writing dissertations over how conflicted he is about them, what can you do but make fun of it in a way that you know he won't get but hopefully others will?
(in case you're still confused, I was making fun of the purported size and significance of this Operation. See, if there actually *were* a concerted, serious effort to shun Shireroth and Shirithian things in general, it *would* be a socially bad idea to contribute to Shireroth... so, can you honestly imagine me being shunned because I helped Erik develop a new subdivision? That's right, me neither. Ain't anything new about Harvey taking some problem that Shireroth is having and turning said molehill into a mountain...)
(mind you, I don't doubt the Anticans and Babkhans and the whatavers are entirely capable of seeming quite serious and being quite consistent when they're shunning and making fun of Shireroth. It's just that their heart is not in it the way Harvey's is. They're just as dangerous to Shireroth as he is, but they don't actually care, which is why the idea of being shunned as an individual by them for contributing to Shireroth is ridiculous)