Siiddhartha, on 19 December 2012 - 07:35 PM, said:
Again, you are playing the victim card yourself. You say that everyone against you is pathetic and evil and whatever else while pK is the innocent victim trying so very hard to be the noble souls that they are in real life, but who are constantly being thwarted by the bad people in these forums preventing them from reaching their full potential.
I'm not the victim either way. I'm a marginally to modestly biased 3rd party. I've been through more flames than this forum can even muster all while truly being the victim more than once in my life. Unlike the victim cards flying around at all angles in this forum. This is why I have the patience to be in the middle and take the hate from people like you (who are not necessarily bad btw) while still dancing the line on supporting my guild mates that need and/or deserve support in their long road ahead.
It's not exactly a job full of thanks. I could get instant acceptance by commiserating completely with either side. Instead I risk the wrath of both by being in the middle. Difference is that PK understands why because they have adventured with me, while you assume far too much. That at least softens my burden somewhat.
And no I'm not some paragon of awesomeness before you go that route. I'm just a dood lol. My self-esteem is a thing that must be managed but controlled. Too much and I'm an arrogant ass, too little and I lack the confidence to properly handle life and negative thoughts creep in. I have the capacity for both extremes and must always balance that too lest I lose myself.
So if I speak in a way that sounds patronizing, I apologize. But I promise I put more effort into being fair and attempting to be objective than 95%+ of people ever will even consider. That much I can say without any give because it's a thing that is present ever single day of my life. Especially for the people that do not deserve fairness because that is when your objectivity and fairness is needed the most.
You may speak of PK playing the victim card and others playing the victim card. There are no victims there, only contenders with various degrees of guilt. That has a modicum of truth to it at the least. But hold your tongue when you speak of me playing the victim card. The world has very very very few people who are actually victims. Most had a fair hand in it themselves.
Now, you've had a post of mine that has a bit more information than was actually relevant but gives a small glimmer of who you are so flippantly assuming is one side or another. I am of the side of the truth and I told PK myself if I really felt they were in truth the villains and you guys the victims I would not be with them.
This is not my first rodeo being in the middle by a long shot and it will not be the last. Least with video games it's just a bunch of whiney impotent nerds waving around their E-peens on the internet and nobody actually gets hurt unless it's their poor widdle feewings. As such resolution is always possible when people eventually run out of stubbornness, pride, and stupidity.
Perhaps that is the type of perspective Madison should have posted in the general sense? Only more PC of course.
You cannot stop a determined man. Mistakes and losses only serve to make him stronger.