WTB wrote:
Don't focus on the word "ranting" if you're going to go by the dictionary definition.
Well don't use the word 'ranting' then, because I'm not ranting. You're applying an emotional modifier and suggesting I'm doing something which I'm not.
'Droning on' I could understand, but ranting I am not.
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If you genuinely can't comprehend what it is you're doing that winds people up, I'll explain it here one last time:
It's the PC stuff. The "PCs are better line" of argument. The "you can build a cheap PC that will outdo any console" stuff. All of that. The 1000 word articles on the subject. In every single thread you can shoehorn it into. And I mean EVERY thread.
I don't think that's true. Take the BL2 thread, I made a couple of brief references mid-thread to the Eurogamer face-off and I've then made god knows how many posts about the GAME, nothing but the GAME, and all about the GAME ever since.
The reason I'm into the PS4 thread is because I think it's genuinely interesting that both the next-gen consoles are just bog-standard PC hardware stuffed into little boxes, perhaps my 'the PC won the war' thread was badly phrased, but it's factual.
I'm not even happy about it as such, we'll never see the magic of the Megadrive/SNES or the PS1 ever again, you did see the post where I described Ridge Racer on the PS1 as 'magical'? I miss that consoles won't do that again.
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As for the Mac thread, I haven't read it, but you were likely shouted at because of the stuff I mentioned above. People are pissed off with you because of that, so they are calling you names. Not necessarily because of anything you did wrong in that particular thread, so don't use that as your yardstick for what you're doing "wrong". Quite why you've specifically referred to that thread alone is beyond me, when there are numerous examples of people shouting at you for doing the thing we're actually complaining about.
Are you Keith Vaz? 'I haven't played this game but I object to it in the strongest possible terms!'
Read the Mac thread, form your own opinion.
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It's to your credit that you don't go off on name-calling frolics of your own. It really is. But you have to understand that your posts about PCs are incredibly frustrating and annoying. And they're absolutely relentless. No matter how many times we tell you to stop. You just never take it in. You continue to do it over and over and over.
I think we covered this in the last thread (helpfully already linked to by Meaty), there are many people and things here that I find annoying, I just ignore them or respond to them selectively, and I don't even need a SUPER MEGA FOE tool to do it.
You're trying to excuse abuse and bullying, and there's never an excuse for that. Meaty's most recent post is basically 'well if he's not going to get banned then I'm going', which is poor form.
I appreciate from the last couple of sentences in Meaty's post that he's going through some bad stuff at the moment personally so I wish him no ill-will, despite him calling me a 'cunt of staggering magnitude', and I didn't wish him any ill-will anyway - that's just not how my mind works.
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People are calling you names because they're frustrated. You're not going anywhere. In all likelihood, you're not going to be banned. You're spoiling their experience of the forum. They're venting their frustration.
But what I am actually doing that's so incredibly offensive?
We've established that I'm not abusive (which other BEEXers most certainly are towards me), we agree (I think) that I'm not actually 'ranting' all over the place, and it's not like I'm spamming up EVERY SINGLE THREAD with PC stuff. Seriously man, just search my recent posts, the idea that I'm on some kind of BEEX-destruction mission is nonsensical.
And for every post I've made that is 'PCS woo! Consoles boo!' there's been at least three or four posts made pushing in the opposite direction by other BEEXers, usually with much more personal venom included.
I think the one where myp tried to slag off my wife by proxy was a particularly classy move -
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8926&p=705195&hilit=reiki#p705195What did I do to deserve that? What did
she do to deserve that?
I get frustrated with stuff and people here at BEEX too, I don't get abusive.
I'm accused of being the 'retarded child' (which isn't very nice since my daughter has a mental disability) but I never, ever, resort to that kind of base abuse myself, and I never will.
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Please acknowledge this post and confirm that you understand it. (And that wasn't meant in a condescending way, it's just that this has been explained to you so many times over the past couple of years or so and apparently as of 6 minutes ago you still don't get it.)
If you want a baseline for what constitutes grounds for a banning on BEEX, we don't know, because nobody has ever been banned. But you must understand that you're upsetting lots of people with your PC talk. Many people have left because of you. I'm sorry if that's harsh or if that's news to you, but it's true.
This, of course, is my best explanation of how I perceive the situation. Not exactly my personal opinion, though I do find your PC "rants" very frustrating as well.
I've read it but I don't understand it, I don't see how someone can become 'upset' by the resident PC spod just being the resident PC spod - it's not like I do anything hurtful or spam up non-technical/gaming threads or even go nuts with the whole thing, I consider my input to the PS4 thread to be pretty much fact-based and observational.
I mean, fucking hell, half of what gets posted to BEEX is frivolous or POTW NOM stuff anyway, I don't complain about that when I try to catch up at the end of the working day with the day's activity, why can't I just be left in peace to post how I want to post, the same as everyone else is?
If my posts were totally irrelevant or obvious spam or blatant trolling or 'ranting' then fair enough, but I don't think they are.
Your opinion may be different of course, but then we're into the realms of shutting someone up just because you don't agree with them or don't like the way they talk.