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I think the idea that specchats are free to trash people with only a closed group is actively a harmful cultural problem

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just do what I do and criticise peopleā€™s play with tasteful memes
people respond to it well and if you communicate correctly they can understand how to improve

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I might talk with my friend about it after the game. But i will try to be less harsh. Because I love them too much.

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Then why are you saying things about them you wouldnā€™t feel comfortable eith them reading

Thatā€™s not love thatā€™s just malice

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although letā€™s be honest
Iā€™m more of a DVC guy than a spec chat guy

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I will tear my friendsā€™ play to shit in DVC

but hiding that from them would make me feel actively awful personally

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Perhaps Iā€™m having a N.1-style strong reaction here but I find the idea of being less harsh to someoneā€™s face abhorrent

Iā€™ve run out of likes 5 times in this thread today

Uh
Thats your way then.
But we others will not try to actively hurt our friends if possible

To which I again ask

Why say things that could realistically hurt your friends

If the people youā€™re friends with are being hurt by it, thatā€™s probably a bad sign

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At the end of the day your friends are the people least likely to read into you being harsh

Then donā€™t say things you think will be hurtful. Learn some self control if it matters that much.

Speak you mind - Empathetic -

Choose which is more important

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Youā€™re starting to sound like my dad lmao

orange thereā€™s something weā€™ve been meaning to tell you

I dont think we still are on topic.
(I mean this personal rampant, not icis comment lul)

oh come on
it was an obvious opportunity for my patented ā€œsentence that looks like itā€™s leading into an adoption talk ends with me proclaiming them to have been spat out of a hole in the ground with the mission to systematically destroy the worldā€ joke

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anyway
this is a thread about subbing in
people in uninformed spec chat arenā€™t allowed to sub in

Unless they all agree to join as a hydra with altogether too many heads :^)

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Look

You could pull up literally hundreds of examples of me trashing someoneā€™s play

But the number of times I have gone after someone personally over years of playing is relatively incredibly small

If youā€™re concerned about posts youā€™ve made in private falling into that latter camp, maybe try harder to make sure theyā€™re in the former

And if theyā€™re in the former, even if theyā€™re harshly worded, that can be a learning experience, and should be forgiven after the game along with literally every other player and spectator who is doing the exact same thing

pros

  • no extra information from having IC reads. theyā€™re a hydra, dummy!
  • funny
  • balanced by the fact that people will be mad at uninformed spec chat subbing in and will find any excuse to kill them
  • itā€™s a gamer move

cons

  • none
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