Thread:Arciusazrael/@comment-16533050-20190221104943/@comment-16533050-20190221150705

Hey! Just to clarify, I said "Please cease this activity." :P

Joking aside, one of the most consistent errors that I commit is my failure to realize that tone and inflection are not as easily communicated across a silent medium such as print.

For example, I always question the necessity of exclamation points, and then when I do use them in messages I second-guess myself as to whether they come off aggressive or not. Another thing I do is capitalize letters when trying to draw attention to something, but others merely take it as me shouting at them, which I'm honestly not trying to do... usually.

As for the Overseer example, what I initially assumed explained my actions apparently failed to do so. I mean, even Pauolo understood my point but it still didn't seem to be satisfactorily clear enough until my final (exceedingly long) response.

Arciusazrael wrote: You can simmply say "this is speculative and likely a gameplay device to help players distinguish important characters"

Unfortunately, that's probably never gonna happen. I would like to say I'll try to do that, but that is not how I talk/communicate nor how I process my thoughts ahead of time, so it would basically be me lying - and I don't wish to be accused of that. Also, as I've stated, you're not the only person I have done this to, because there are some people who don't seem to get a clue unless every last iota is explained to them.

As for you having a bad day, pssh, don't worry about; I completely understand. I had literally just woke up to something like 14+ alerts from various fandoms I had to check on, so you're fine. I slapped together my message as quick as I could to prevent more from being done in the hopes of preventing excessively counter-edits and 'undo's on my part. I don't like flooding the 'Recent Wiki Activity' log with such things from me as I think it looks overly aggressive or obsessive on my part.

Anyway, as far as I am concerned we're still cool. I do realize that my oft-times abrupt persona can come across rough; I didn't acquire that aka of "Bad Cop" on my profile page for nothing. ;)

Thanks again.

- Geist