Kingofpain89 wrote:Wow....now who's the "internet jerk".  

This must be why Ritchie Blackmore is no longer in Deep Purple, why Michael Schenker is no longer in UFO, why Mantas and Abaddon are no longer with Venom.  Damn the Internet and the jerkiness.

DnDGeek wrote:Yeah, that's me. The jerk who wanted to know where your dinner was. Thanks all for culminating my crappy week with more crap. Obviously no one sees my side, but I'm honestly one of the nicest guys you could meet. I just don't like people who feel they can be condescending just because they have the buffer of the internet between them. I speak the same way, in person or on the internet. Love the site, but now I'm probably tagged as "that guy". Great.

Holy......

Please tell me you aren't signed up for the NTRPG Con?

Mike B.

Wow, two disasters on here in two days and I had nothing to with either of them.  

Badmike wrote:
Yeh, well SCREW YOU!!!!!  

Mike B.

I know where you live.  I'll come over there and whip your ass....tomorrow.  

Oh yeah...since I am not making GenCon this year, will someone see if The Rathskeller will overnight me a couple of brats and and an Aventinus Eisbock?  Thanks.  

kingofpain,

I checked with the Rathskeller and they do carry out to 49 states.  Guess which one they do not send carry out to.  

Martin

I guess I'll just stop answering...
I had no intent to start off this insane round of screw yous and threatened ass whuppin's.

DnDGeek: Did it not occur to you that maybe the reason so many people jumped to my defense is because they saw no slight, either?

Believe me, when I'm in the wrong, they let me know just as quickly, which is one of the reasons I come over here now and again. We generally respect each other on this site, and can disagree as gentlemen, or ladies, without  seeing insult where none exists and throwing a hissy fit. I have a 118 page thread on Dragonsfoot that is often much less civil than this.

serleran wrote:No way, Tim. Don't allow a simple misunderstanding push you to the point of non-responsiveness. We all, or most of us, enjoy what you have to say. Looking forward to the next article in Crusader, by the way.

I didn't mean I'd stop talking, just not attempt to be helpful to strangers anymore.

Hey Tim,

I derive my opinions from my own observations and experience. I don't base them on the opinions of others. I don't know you well enough to be sure of what you meant by your comment, but after meeting you at Gary Con (and now realizing it was you I was sparring with), it only reinforces my opinion because (and I'm sure I'll get slammed again for this too), I found gaming with you to be less than a pleasure. You berated me several times, despite trying to be as humble and understanding as I could be during the game and I never said a callous word back to you. I found everyone else there to be a pleasure to be around and made lots of new friends there that I've been communicating with since, so I don't think the problem was with me. If you meant to be helpful, great, but you'll have to forgive me if I don't apologize. Let me just close by saying that, if it were a misunderstanding, it was a miniscule one and I didn't take that much offense by it, hence the light-handed return jibe. I took much more offense to the ensuing posts. See you around.

DnDGeek wrote:...You berated me several times, despite trying to be as humble and understanding as I could be during the game and I never said a callous word back to you. I found everyone else there to be a pleasure to be around and made lots of new friends there that I've been communicating with since, so I don't think the problem was with me...

Well now... If you didn't have a good time, what can I say? If you recall, before (both of them) I pointed out that I was "getting back into" serious DM'ing, and that what I was going to expose you to was going to be something very likely different from what you did before.

I never "berated" (to scold; rebuke) anyone in either one. I certainly verbally challenged a number of you to think outside the box, I definitely teased a few of you, and I remember all of us having a few laughs in both.

Now, if you were in the early game, where the sign-up was filled but we couldn't find all of them, and then some left or wandered off, and then the mapper quit and left because he didn't know how to map very well (to be fair to him, he was sort of cajoled into it by the rest of you), then, yeah, I can see how you might not have enjoyed it that much. But hey, I didn't cause any of those problems, and tried several times to get his map re-oriented.

I chivvied (only a little), I chided ( a couple of times), but I don't think I ever berated anyone. I certainly bantered some, baited a little and jibed a skosh while joshing a tad and vexing frequently.

You know, I don't remember who you could possibly be; if I had done as you claim, surely I would.