Distorted Cerebration

This is not a spoiler.

So the latest Harry Potter book came out recently. I can’t even fathom what else has been this big that it’s affected the world like this. But what I just saw takes the cake.

While getting ready for a raid, the council of my alliance decides, “Spoil the latest Harry Potter and you’re raid banned”. Maybe a little overboard but understandable request. I don’t want to hear about a movie that I want to see other than “It was good” or “It sucked”, so it’s the same as a book.

So someone announces in vent “Council just passed. No talking about the Harry Potter book or you’re out of the alliance/raid banned”. Now if you haven’t been under a rock for the last 10years it’s a common sentiment when the Potter book is released. However one player states this (paraphrasing) in raid chat:

“I can’t stand for the limiting of free speech in any form. gl”

And then leaves the raid. And signs off.

HOLY SHIT BATMAN!

I am all for free speech, but we’ve all been there where we’ve wanted to smash someone in the face for revealing information that we wanted to discover on our own. Like in a book, or a movie. So to get uppity about a request like that is just beyond all comprehension.

Someone getting like that for book information being said. Ok, I kinda get that. For the possibility of not being able to ruin someone’s enjoyment of a book, for the sake of ‘free speech’. OMG “Lighten up Francis”.

Once more I’m here trying to decipher myself, to explain to others (in the hopes, that I finally understand myself )

It seems to me that I have a power problem.  Not a struggle for power. I’m not building a fighting force of extra-ordinary magnitude.  I have no technological terrors that are completely operational. We’re talking more interpersonal power.

And it’s really odd one.  Would love to hear your comments on it.

You see I seem to ‘give’ power to those who I don’t know, and (just about) demand power from those I know very well.  Ironic eh?

You would think it would be opposite.  That when they met me they would soon learn who’s “the baddest mofo low down around this town?”  (Sho’nuff).  But instead my ego disappears. Completely.  I become an empty shell in the shape of Funk.

I just seem to blindly obey those I don’t know.  Ok, not completely. Ask for money and I don’t have it. But other than that I will seriously consider “obeying” if not just doing it.

And those that get that far of requesting things of me, have made it past the “don’t fuck with me” aka the expressionless face I usually have when near people I don’t know.

But for people I do know, I can be pushy. I can be a down right asshole sometimes.  Not so much an asshole that people hate me. Instead people seem to like me. Alot.  (They told me so :P).  I always get invited back.   But still that bossy attitude is there, with people I know.

Why does any of this matter?  Well meeting women is kinda hard when you turn into souless Mr. Roboto who hasn’t uploaded the conversation software yet.

Really need to find away to meet new people and know that “I am the master” at the same time.

Sho’nuff.

I’ve been a so called leader a few times in my lifetime. I’ve had good times and bad times. All in all though I will actively try not to be a leader ever again. The stress part of it aside, the real bane of leading is the “then I’ll quit” people.

You know those people. The ones that disagree with something and then make some suggestion that when not praised as the saving grace of whatever the current ailment is state “then I’ll just quit”.

I use to try and keep the peace. Try to make them understand that yes there comments are welcomed. Now… GTFO if you’re gonna be like that.

It’s a tactic that I’ve seen way too often, typically from people that do nothing but complain but don’t do any of the work. Moving forward in anything is so much more of a chore when you drag people like that along.

Now to up the ante on the level of annoyance of these people, they also do the whole “that’s not what I meant” thing.

You know what I mean. First they say “This sucks, I hate it”. Then when you call them out on it their response is “I never said it sucks. You misinterpreted what I said”.

Umm… no you said “it sucks”. In fact this situation happens a lot on message boards, so you can quote them:

Annoyance wrote:

This sucks. I hate it.

To which their reply of course is ” That’s not what I really meant”.

Bullshit. If that’s not what you meant, then don’t say/type it. Mean what you say. Say what you mean (”and as always, England Prevails!”).

Honestly how hard is it to take a minute, 60 seconds to review what you write for tone and how others may perceive what you’re saying.

Ugh.

The only thing that could top this crap sundae, is those people who say whatever it takes to get people pissed off (following the “this sucks” mantra), and then when others get pissed off, they act like the victim.

“Bullet in the brain pan. Squish.”