The_God_Brain wrote:Gosh, Mangrum. The frustration is palpable.
Explain how your outburst is warranted. You agreed with a claim; I pointed out that said claim was wrong. It
was wrong.
Was it the "Sigh" that set you off on what is becoming a rather lengthy tirade?
The_God_Brain wrote:It must be terrible for you to have to converse with people on a message board where you don't have the power to ban them when they say things that you don't like.
Yes, it's pretty bad not being able to ban you, like I did back at the Goat.
Oh, no, wait, I never did ban you. Who did I ban? Oh yeah, the guy who boasted about his gay-bashing and the guy who spent a year methodically recording my every post in a vast conspiracy theory while planning to physically attack me. Yes, a fine, fine circle of peers you seem to want to draw around yourself.
The_God_Brain wrote:Furthermore, to "truly live" implies feeling emotions. At least, it does for the rest of us.
And what does "to move and breathe" mean to the rest of us, pray tell? Since I, having written the passage in question, apparently
meant to say that the God-Brain craves to feel emotion (a word nowhere in its description), why did I preface that with two explicitly
physical cravings?
Here's the God-Brain's problem: It's an active mind trapped in a completely useless body. The God-Brain isn't Data, wanting to be "human" -- it's Stephen Hawking, who, despite a brilliant mind,
can't get out of his chair.
The God-Brain is a "bubble boy" who would love to travel the world -- to see it with his own eyes, to breathe it in -- but is stuck in one, sterile room, watching reruns on TV.
The_God_Brain wrote:And it did for just about everyone else here on the board who read it.
I wasn't even the first one to point out you were factually wrong.
The_God_Brain wrote:If it was a misinterpretation, I suppose several of us are guilty. Maybe the text should have been more clear...or maybe it was something that was open to individual interpretation?
Ah, if I only had a nickel for each time Ravenloft fans such as yourself chewed us out for writing under the assumption our readers could pick up on nuance.
The_God_Brain wrote:Whether the God Brain is pouting because It can't feel emotions or can't ride a bike doesn't really matter...
So why the freakout? Oh, right, 'cause this discussion isn't about the God-Brain -- it's about your little tantrum. I also note that the God-Brain's exact curse became unimportant only
after it was pointed out that you'd bet on a bad pony.
The_God_Brain wrote:I don't take it personally.
So why the freakout?
The_God_Brain wrote:In any event, you are splitting hairs.
There's no real difference between emotionally dead and being physically crippled? How so? Use small words.
The_God_Brain wrote:You were wrong and someone pointed it out to you, and you can't just admit it.
And where was it pointed out that I was wrong? (Your initial freakout, wildly gesturing to the exact quote -- which I wrote, and follows on the God-Brain's curse as presented in "The Realms Beyond" --which I wrote -- in The Book of Souls -- doesn't count, since the quote actually backs
my position. Odd that, my being the author of those words.)
The_God_Brain wrote:Except ban me.
Weight of the world on your po' widdle shoulders, dear?