#regularpolyhedra

“….resortingto the tactics of my opponents”?

Uhm.

First ofall, the tactics of my opponents are ad hominems, strawman arguments or otherlogical fallacies. Or playing pigeon chess, flouncing out of discussions anddeclaring that they’ve won when they haven’t managed to put up a singleargument that holds water. Oh….or just straight-up verbal abuse.

Now, on occasion, e.g. when people wouldn’t quit resorting to strawmanarguments, I’ve been known to use a touch of  condescension, questioning people’s readingcomprehension, or using a little sarcasm. And I don’t play doormat for anybody and I will stand up for myself when people get insulting….but that is something I’ve alwaysdone and it isn’t even remotely in the same league as the tactics of the antis.

(Also really curious about how you managed to classify a reply a that starts off with calling the other’s post “disingenous horseshit” and follows up with other insults as not “flying off the handle”.)

And youfeel that somehow, the style of my posts has changed?

That is arather strange claim to make, given that my posts on the subject are about 95%copy and paste and have been for ages.(Because it’s kinda hard to come up with something new, given that the antis keepregurgitating the same old misinformation and fallacious arguments over andover again.)

And the rest is just mainly shuffling thingsaround a bit to fit the post in question.

So yes, I’mreally left wondering how you managed to come to the above conclusions and Iwould much appreciate if you could be more specific, because so far, all I seeis you making allegations that don’t seem to be based on anything substantial.

As for myrhetoric….

I believe Ialready mentioned that the antis keep bringing up the same old misinformationand fallacious arguments over and over again. And that as a result, the counter-argumentsI make are copy & paste repetitions of things I said ages ago too. At thesame time though, I strive to address all and every aspect that is brought upand to reply in full to all concerns that people have.

Which meansmy rhetoric is not reductive but REPETITIVE.

And I cansee how that might end up boring and maybe even annoying people, like ads onTV, which are also repetitive.

But there’sa reason ads get repeated and why any message that you want to get through someday needs to be said, said again and said differently once more: If you don’t,it gets completely sidelined and drowned out.

Especiallyif you’re up against a sea of misinformation that also repeats the same oldfallacious and wrong things over and over again.

And Icompletely get how some people might get bored with it.

But then,this is fandom stuff which is tagged,and not some ad on TV or the radio, so anybody who gets tired of it has theoption of filtering it out.

Where itcomes to your “disappointment” in me….I’m sorry to say that you haven’t been onmy radar much, since as far as I can tell you’re more of a bystander and not thekind of person who gets much involved in such debates, so the most I’ve beenable to muster in regard to you is “friendly neutrality” and there isn’t muchfor me to be disappointed about. I believe we briefly talked about teacups once.

So I mustsay I am quite baffled by you coming to my inbox like this, in such anaggressive fashion, throwing around accusations which you seem to pull out ofthin air.

And I knowthis is related to this ( X and X ) discussion that I’ve had with Shine, and I believe youare friends with her?

The thingis, Shine was acting less than stellar in this particular instance.

And yes,it’s a good thing to stick with your friends.

Ahaha man I just hate them because they’re fucking impossible to clean.

...I...I think I need this in my life.

MOSTLY THIS IS SOMETHING THAT INTRIGUES/HORRIFIES ME BECAUSE

I have a love/hate thing for Lovecraft (so much purple prose and language like congealed porridge! So much failure to actually provoke or attempt to describe the horror, because saying that it’s indescribable is such a terrible cop-out!)

the xenophobia that permeates Lovecraft’s work is part of what I hate about it but it also can fit quite thematically with the various factions of Far Harbor

BUT at the same time the horror in Lovecraft mostly comes from how at its core, no matter how well prepared or knowledgable the protagonists are, they will always be set up to fail because the things they discover are beyond their ken. So! If the protagonist is the monster, is it really a horror story?

I really love the Mariner. I don’t want her to go mad with the realization of cosmic horror! (how do you tell a Lovecraft story without that though?)

I feel like to do it proper justice I need to read more Lovecraft, but then that goes back to my love/hate with it

....but come on, femslash monsters!

aww thank you!

steve angrily drawing all “THIS IS HOW SPINES WORK FUCK YOU LIEFELD - S.Rogers”

LET MY BISCUITY SELF NURTURE YOU WITH LOVE

(also, hehe!)