I was cringe before it was cool

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Turtledove wrote:

Here's my interpretation of most of Foreverhappychan's posts. He posts entertaining things but the main goal is generally to entertain himself. Although I must admit that my interpretation may be incorrectly and significantly colored by myself because that is my excuse for most of my posts.

Well, I haven't read Scrotie's response beyond the first few lines (standard practice when I find his word-strings get too lowered-brow and furrow-faced -- but I usually come back to them later when I'm feeling receptive to that particular mode) so you're probably right. If I'm not entertained, there's no point -- but apparently what I do for entertainment here entertains some others, so that's a win. ^_^

Just came back to respond to a friend in my main thread (which is not so much entertaining as energising, although I miss feeling okay putting my energy towards GGG and not against them) and say 'hi!'.

Cringe, cool? They're just two sides of the same coin collection. If you're lucky you figure out a good way to flip it...something any old MTG tragic knows all-too-well.

That , you need to interpolate anyone is your first problem. God made you perfect, as is, dont worry about other peeps and their shit posts .. includning mine,

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Aim_Deep wrote:

God made you perfect, as is,

We are born seriously flawed, utterly dependent creatures. If there is one thing I am fundamentally and unabashedly certain of, it is that it is good to admire maturity and bad to worship childishness.

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I was going to sincerely compliment teh original post, I share some of the same jaded sentiment that seems to be coming from it

but

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you unironically called someone on the path of exile official forums a "cringe normie,"

What we have here is a bit of a disagreement. I think it's fair to say that, in the opening post of this thread, I'm calling myself a cringe normie. Or at least a bit more vulnerable to normalcy than I would have liked to believe. So it wasn't my reply that first questioned (limiting the timeline to this thread) whether a denizen of the Path of Exile forums can be a normie.

That said, I didn't really go where I wanted to go with such doubts. The idea was to question the notion that having a niche weird hobby is still weird, not to use it as a cudgel. So when you say

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but the level at which you are self-aware in a post like this makes sentences liek this

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

So what I'm going to do now is go for humility.

seem kinda weird

well, that's fair enough.

Even with a understanding that I should be the change I want to be in the world, it's doesn't make being that change fun. More importantly, it doesn't make it feel natural. It has yet that surreal feel of the behavior which has not yet become habit — and considering that it's been some time since this thread began, that means I've been doing a shit job.

And I might be doing one now, too, because real life is calling so I'm not reading this over before submitting.

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Never heard of the cringe phenomenon before. You youngsters have a strange language.

Thank you for explaining it to me. I mean I don't really understand better but I at least feel better that I have company.

You are the center of the universe.

Nothing to see here.