04-03-2003, 08:14 AM
ok, let me make something clear here. I don't mind healthy debates, in fact, I'm one of the more argumentative types of people for debating. I love 'em. The problem is that when your in game like that trying to relax and all you get is long lines of text scrolling up the bottom half of your screen from a lot of people who all are pretty wound up about what they are disgussing... then I say that online game chat isn't the channel for it.
If there's a full blown online debate, that's what IRC/MSN/AIM/Yahoo/ICQ etc are designed for. I could tell I was being ignored, and that's the bit that made me leave. If someone had said something about the president etc, then it would have been at least partially acceptable. The only person I could see even bothering was GRITS. Hence why I apologised for dropping out so quick to her alone.
I have little interest in the war, because it has become so you can't really even go a few hours without it being mentioned somewhere somehow. When it comes down to it, it isn't affecting my daily life. Kinda selfish, but that's how you live life. You deal with your problems and try to help out where you can.
So, to sum up. If there's a debate I'm interested in, I'll debate. If I'm ignored, I'll walk away because I'm no fool. And if it's a hot topic, suggest to people to take it outside the online game chat, because I was struggling to read what you lot where all writing and I wasn't even typing half the time (regardless of the point that I touch type anyway).
If there's a full blown online debate, that's what IRC/MSN/AIM/Yahoo/ICQ etc are designed for. I could tell I was being ignored, and that's the bit that made me leave. If someone had said something about the president etc, then it would have been at least partially acceptable. The only person I could see even bothering was GRITS. Hence why I apologised for dropping out so quick to her alone.
I have little interest in the war, because it has become so you can't really even go a few hours without it being mentioned somewhere somehow. When it comes down to it, it isn't affecting my daily life. Kinda selfish, but that's how you live life. You deal with your problems and try to help out where you can.
So, to sum up. If there's a debate I'm interested in, I'll debate. If I'm ignored, I'll walk away because I'm no fool. And if it's a hot topic, suggest to people to take it outside the online game chat, because I was struggling to read what you lot where all writing and I wasn't even typing half the time (regardless of the point that I touch type anyway).