Final-Fan said:
My post: "Regarding your condescending dismissal of my iPod commentary: you chose to ignore my argument in favor of belittling me." Your post: "You called me belittling and condescending? Look at your own posting style before making accusations." My post: My posting style is nearly, but not completely, free of belittling and condescending remarks. Your post: Doesn't matter, hypocrite. My post: Does matter, and I'm not a hypocrite unless your standards are so strict that everyone is a hypocrite. And your example of my hypocrisy was in fact not hypocrisy. My accusation was that "you chose to ignore my argument in favor of belittling me". The belittlement is not the accusation; the ignoring of my argument is the accusation. Calling the remark "condescending" was simply a description, which you can dispute if you feel it is an unfair one. I never said "OMG you're insulting me, you are a horrible person." If you have time to constantly monitor this thread over a period of two days and respond repeatedly on it, then you have time to formulate a full response to my main post. It shouldn't take more than 30 minutes, or at most an hour. Every response you have made to my posts has been similarly tangential and has similarly failed to answer the main points I have made. For a while this made me think you were trolling. Now I believe that you are just failing to read my posts carefully. My current theory is that, despite looking at this thread ten times a day, you feel you have "no time" to thoroughly read and fully respond to my posts, so you skim it and respond off the top of your head to whatever catches your eye without bothering to make sure you've fully answered my point or that you've even correctly read my post (e.g. the Jigglypuff quote). Is my theory correct? Just because I like to carefully and thoroughly respond to the arguments and allegations of others doesn't make me a pedant. [edit: unless you mean it in the sense of "a formalist or precisionist", which I doubt.] |
Your theory is mostly right; I feel a bit overwhelmed at the moment. I'd love to have 30 consecutive minutes free over the next few days. I'm not going to be able to formulate a response up to your standards until at least after XMas, so please chill for a while. At best, the discussion is only going to continue in the same vein until then.