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Reading again today, I think you might be right... I think I'll go have some cider (with a healthy dose of bourbon) and maybe some slightly burnt toast.. gotta keep those brain cells in check ;-)

This being text communication, I have no idea if you're just staying in character or if you're actually annoyed with me.

And who are you to question who I am?

If that isn't clearly what it means, why don't you explain what it does mean then?

As much as humor is appreciated when things get heated, surely you can appreciate how this thread appears as a direct mockery as opposed to an attempt at aimless humor. Even if the intention was harmless, it still ends up being made at the expense of being incredibly reductive of the thing it parodies. You have every chance to lighten the mood with this thread, but you're instead choosing to take an expected negative reaction and just keep baiting. Like the famous emergency services TV show "When japes go wrong" often reminds us, the onus isn't solely on the audience to laugh it off, sometimes the performer has to own up to their part of the fumble so shit doesn't go sour.

It's hard to give you the benefit of the doubt when you act like this instead of trying to reconcile them with your actual intent. Humor doesn't need to be at the expense of others.

I'm not the one posting threads mocking a serious subject simply because I dislike someone, kiddo.
You'll never see me do that. ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echolalia

You might be right. I'm a little too honest for this community and refuse to kiss ass to win a few games.
We'll call it a character flaw.

EDIT: I think it's fair to say that the community also contributed a bit to the way I am. So perhaps 50% character flaw, and 50% jaded? A bit ironic, too, that you're saying that in a thread mocking another serious thread by a user who was suspended in the past for doing the same thing. I mean, if people are going to be petty, should I call them anything but?

There's nothing about holding a grudge here, because I don't. I've seen his repeated immaturity over the months, his snide sideways attacks at Mully (and anyone who disagrees with him about anything), and decided to say something. He does the same thing in her own thread (and has in others). I'm apparently not the only one who noticed.

The only reason I mentioned unfriending him is because when I did it, he couldn't understand why I did it (and asked).. He knows why now. I'd be embarrassed if a friend of mine did something like this., and I certainly wouldn't find it "funny". And yes, I'm the first person to jump Mully's ass when I think she's doing something out of line. I've even told her straight up in the past (for certain things) "I'd have suspended you, too."

And no, I don't expect the topic of Mully's thread is serious to everyone. But it's serious to her. Same as another user's thread about helping people achieve level one on SG by giving them games to give away was serious to him, and I treated his decision with respect and even defended it in the face of those who disagreed (and so did Mully ...). And, knowing myself as I do, I'd do it again, regardless of this current thread or any other.

That person is now mocking someone else's "serious" thread. So yeah, perhaps I overreacted a bit, but it's still something with which I take issue, especially given the past.

EDIT: Realized I missed one thing you said, with which I strongly disagree. I don't even dislike Nico. I just dislike some of the things he does.

lmao a Gopnik