Achromalia wrote:
whoah, shit.
guys, can we not be all aggressive?
hitting back isn't going to do shit, just quietly refute someone's claims or move on.
can we not ;w;
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also, more directly -- thanky. my laptop's done for, as far as i know. we can't really afford to repair or get another laptop. i'm using a desktop instead.
sadly, i couldn't transfer the data to the desktop, so i've lost all the digital art and music projects i've had, as well as the funny shit i had saved from conversations around discord. kinda sucks ass, but at this point, i might as well move on.
Can't you open up the laptop and take out its harddrive? I'm not sure what is broken exactly, but as long as the harddrive isn't damaged, you might still be able to access it, and even then, I've heard and read of methods to restore damaged harddrives to access their files, you might still have some hope.
The other thing, you're correct that hitting back is pointless, but your suggestion to quietly refute isn't a good one either, you'd have to write explanations like this that will only lead to giving people more invitations to give you shit for no good reason, not everyone follows logic. I'd personally consider the most mature and intelligent option, which is also your 2nd suggestion, to just let it pass by and not respond to stabs like that at all, whatever a stranger thinks has no impact on me after all. In that moment I simply felt like going with a less mature choice, so I just reflected him and wrote down hard facts of what he just did. Could have written it more nicely, I agree, but I also felt if he gets burned a little in response to his negative behaviour, he might learn from it better.
(Tbh, I personally don't even believe that he tried to be mean, I think he just tried to be funny without realizing that he was being mean.)
OT: response, I would like to try writing a new story with you in the "make a story" thread, I did actually try to write and contribute to it properly to enable a proper story, but there were always posts that completely broke it back to shitposting levels. I sometimes tried to force certain words or phrases via grammar, but people simply ignored that and wrote gramatically wrong words anyways. Your posts were always fun though.