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... Dude this a conversation about how steak is cooked.
I called one very minor thing you did "lame". It seems genuinely concerning that your reaction is this extreme over such a very mild callout.
holy shit. i was correct. you are a complete and total douche. talk about a nerd ego.
That isn't nerd shit. I'm just trying to give them the benefit of the doubt that maybe they just missed the joke instead of whining about something unrelated. Just because this is Lemmy doesn't mean everyone likes Star Trek, maybe they came across something in all and took it the wrong way, but judging by their other comments, apparently not. They did just want to make something all about themselves.
Ooo, throwing the nerd gauntlet?
Gagh, likely the most famous klingon dish and which is famous for being eaten alive, is also canonically served as a stew. Lots of other klingon dishes we know about are also fully cooked - boiled K'rada, stewed Racht, blood pie, etc. Your characterization of klingons also arguably differs from the canon - it's presented as an act of extreme disrespect for another klingon to alter the food Alexander is eating. It follows that, much as humans do, Klingons have personal culinary preferences - and that it's considered rude to mock someone for them.
You're trying to make this into some grand slight against you, when again the worst slight towards your character has been to call your behavior "lame" and your direct personal attacks "extreme". I understand you don't like being called out, sure, but you might want to step back and reflect on your behavior a little.
I love this for you. It’s a beautiful response.
Do you understand that that's worse? I was trying to give you the benefit of the doubt by suggesting mabye you just didn't get the joke and thought it was a generic poke at people that like well-done.
But you did get it, and yet you still had to make it all about you to give yourself an opportunity to whine about something.
They next time a group of friends or coworkers makes plans and they don't include you, and you're sitting around lonely wondering why, this is why.
Ah, so now that I've demonstrated my nerd cred is vastly larger than your own and your defense of "it was a joke in canon" doesn't work, we're dropping that angle of conversation and shifting directly back into personal attacks with a sprinkling of unwarranted superiority. I like how you went back and edited in that last sentence, presumably because you didn't feel your comment was insulting enough? Which really should give you pause here. Why do something like that? I hope this behavior is just the product of a truly foul day or even intoxication, and that in the future you're mature enough to revisit this with a less toxic attitude.
You most certainly have not, else you would be aware of all the instances in the shows and movies a Klingon had made fun of someone for eating, or appears disgusted by, non-living Gagh. They may respect others choices, but they'll still rib them a bit over it.
I dropped that angle because you demonstrated that you did get the joke and you just woke up today and choose to be insufferable. A choice that I would bet you make more often than not.
Yes, all those instances where food preferences were shown to be highly individual, and calling them out is shown to be rude. The exact point I made earlier in fact, that not respecting others choices is rude. I'm glad to see you agree with me, but I'm... confused as to why you're continuing to insult me while doing so. It's rather muddying your point here.
You do remember how you just agreed with my point, yes? If this is just going to devolve into you attempting to save face by starting a flame war, I'm not particularly interested.
I have not agreed with you at all. I'm starting to wonder if this is all due to you having a problem with reading comprehension.
You did, though. And ah, I was wondering when you'd start being ableist.
I did not, and do not, agree with your interpretation of Klingon norms and mores. I dropped it because that was a digression caused by me incorrectly trying to come up with an explanation other than you being a natural born douchebag. But you successfully stomped all over that and have proved to me that you are just the absolute fucking worst.
And again, you should try to avoid cheapening serious words by using them where they don't apply. It's not ableism to wonder about an explanation. It would only be ableism if I gave you shit for it, and only then if it was actually due to a disability and not you being willfully ignorant. I suspect that this is a choice you've made, but that's just a guess. If I'm wrong, you have my sympathies. But until you tell me otherwise, I'm going to keep assuming you are the way you are by choice and/or inclination not caused by disability.
Oh, more of this.
You have spent hours both insulting and projecting motivations onto me - my earlier characterization of calling you toxic was possibly premature, but it has been utterly vindicated by your subsequent behavior. And no, attempting to explain the behavior of someone you've spent hours spewing various forms of invective against as being due to a fundamental flaw in their ability to reason (poor reading comprehension) is indeed ableism. That you're now trying to couch it as somehow originally having been intended to convey that 'I have chosen to have poor reading comprehension' is both absurd and transparent, and I think we both know how flat it just fell.
I look forward to your next entry into whatever this is.
I've found that if someone doesn't seem to be picking up what I'm putting down and puts some wild spin on it the most likely explanation is that they're a fucking jerk that doesn't bother listening/reading and hears/sees whatever they want to so they can keep being a fucking jerk. I don't jump to disability for an explanation.
I'm not even sure how you could choose to have poor reading comprehension. I remember once being a very young child looking at words and not automatically reading them, but no matter what I do I can't willfully have that happen as an adult. I suspect the same is true of comprehension - unless you just spectacularly poorly phrased this and you just meant that I was intentionally misinterpreting you, it seems like a real stretch to imply it wasn't a comment on my capacity for reading.
Lol, literally. Thanks for the laugh. Did you intend to perfectly encapsulate the kind of behavior I was talking about? My previous comment was just two sentences, and only one mattered. But you're a dick that doesn't think other people's words are worth your time so you just saw what you wanted to see so you could keep being a dick.
It is a comment on your capacity for reading, but a self-imposed one.
You're trying to signal your superiority by performatively explaining/demonstrating how little regard you have for what I've said, and how I'm even so foolish that I've made a blunder which illustrates your point - so to be clear I understand what you're doing, and now we're on the same page so you don't have to keep with the tedium of doing that.
Unfortunately you're going on to continue escalating your insults, and throw out yet more inaccurate assumptions of the motivations behind my behavior. Is it so truly difficult for you to believe someone else could just... be a nice person?
Edit: Neeeevermind. Ty mods, sorry about all this.