Silly, huh, yeah.....if you can't be nice better to just be silent. Or admit that you are not actually a nice courteous person on this BBS. DD
I am hardly the only person here that has fun with your posts, DD. It's as popular a sport here as funning basketballholic. Lighten up. I don't mean you any ill will.
I think if you're going come into a thread to post about what an unfailingly polite person you are, it's more than fair game for DD to (gently) call you out in this instance. And I mock DD plenty.
What I said was that my mother impressed manners upon me and I still employ them in real life. We were talking about holding doors for people, not how we talk to each other on a Rockets fan site. And I have behaved very badly here in the past. I cop to that every chance I get. It happened when I was drinking. DD posts the same things about 20 times a day. It is almost impossible not to point that out when his posts are so constant and always the same. That has nothing to do with politeness IRL. And I did not hold myself up to be a paragon of politeness. I just said that I had good manners. I do. About 30 people on this site know me IRL and I think it's probably true that they would all back me on this. That I have good manners in public. Not that I am Mother Teresa. I've done ban-worthy stuff on this board a LOT. Always when I was drinking. I don't even brush up against the codes of unacceptable behavior anymore. And giving a poster the business, when his act here is so well-known by everyone... I'm sorry but everyone does it and I don't agree it's rude. It's ribbing. I like DaDakota. I barely know him IRL. I met him once at a Rockets game and he snubbed me actually, once he knew my handle. I was excited to meet him. And, again, I like him. I rib him in good fun. Now that I know it genuinely bothers him though (I don't know why he singles me out when so many rib him but okay) I will be more mindful of not doing it. I never meant to hurt his feelings. I was doing it in fun. But if it's not fun for him, okay, I won't.
It is not ribbing, come on, no one really believes that, and I could easily pull up a ton of posts about it, at best if you are joking it is trolling, not ribbing - but I appreciate you saying you will be more cognizant of it. And I did not snub you, I said hello, you had this look of..."I am batman jones", like I would be mad at you or something. I wasn't mad, I honestly was trying to think if we had some argument or something like I should be...hell I don't recall what I posted 10 minutes ago, and there is only one I genuinely do not like on here - maybe if he would agree to meet in person we could duke...errr talk it out... .....weird, as for you, I was just meeting 30 other fans in that section, For Smegs trip...I was overwhelmed.....I thought you were a cool dude... Honestly, if you felt I snubbed you I sincerely apologize, It was not my intent....EVER! Honestly, you are one of my favorite personalities on here....you are a play write - and I love the theatre, you traveled in Europe -though you broke your leg - glad you are ok, and you fought Lyme disease for 15 years and finally recovered - big ups for that.... See, I pay attention, Now, Sam Fisher, he is just a douche. DD
Wow, that's a heck of a lot nicer than the character assassination you just edited out. That was way more personal than anything I've ever said to or about you. Don't worry. I won't respond to your posts again.
And now I see you've added this. I didn't have a chance to act mad toward you. I smiled when I introduced myself and when you heard my handle you turned your back and walked away, very overtly. Maybe you don't remember. Anyway, this is getting like high school. I'm done. I'm sorry I hurt your feelings.
Character assassination? Hardly. Harsh for sure.....which is why I edited it. However, you are right it is childish, and yes, I edited it out - as I read your post through softer eyes, and decided I was being way too harsh. Either way, respond or not - but I did not mean to snub you - at all, seems you have been carrying that grudge for a long time.....not my intent....and the reason I turned is Smeggy called my name to meet someone else...you were on the end, and I was going down the line of Clutchfans it was an exciting time - loved meeting all those good fine folks, you included. In fact, IIRC, I was on one row, and you were on the row above....I was going to see HP, I believe as I had hired someone for my company that he recommended and I wanted to say thanks. Honestly sorry if you felt snubbed, that would be seriously ****ty of me, and NOT my intent - that was a great meet up...I was sad I had different seats than everyone else, you guys had more fun. DD
Unless yall are going to bone and be the next ClutchFans power couple, some things are best left for private email. Just feels less forced. Tis all.
Meh, I doubt it bothers either of us that much, TBH, I just wanted to call him out on the hypocrisy. Didn't mean to get into all the "Feels" stuff.....but whatever - we don't know each other that well anyway, I doubt either of us loses sleep over it. The board is probably better off without us chirping. DD
That was very cool of you just to give him an interview, much less hire him. Especially after his little game demo hung your computer, if I recall correctly, right? Ryan was his name? Miss the days of keeping up with you via IRC/Skype chats, and the game viewing party at BW3 in the Village when you drove to meet us Houston-contingent was awesome...remember that? I too apologize for stretching the limits of "having fun" with you. I always feel better posting something of interest to you where I can sense a smile through the internet from ya. Remember when Clutch declared a divide on cfnet in the early pre-Yao years. "Realists" vs "Sunshine Ass." I was on the Sunshine Ass side, you more Realist, but really you had your own thing going on, that didn't fit either group. But I think that's our cfnet personality divide here...The Realists camp was distinguished by calling out the players/team when needed. I just don't like to do that, especially coach-bashing, to the point of reacting to extreme against it. Doesn't mean one is better than the other, just two of the different types of fans. It is true that you never really attack people here...so at that level take much more than you dish out. Cheers, DD ps: The Smeggy World Tour outing was a rapid fire succession of meeting people. Trying to meet 50 people in the stands was challenging. I had some social dynamics not work out as well as hoped, too.
Can’t remember if i already commented on this thread but I usually hit the close door button as soon as I get in to hasten it moving. Ain’t nobody got time for someone that can’t show up to the elevator on time
