Originally
posted by
Dragon:
Condescension is condescension and you're a fluff for wielding it. Nobody likes an arrogant asshole. People who lack faith in themselves will hire condescending assholes to work for them, and that's all good, I guess. That's too bad because I thought Azz was above that bullfluff. Oh well.
FFA is not 1a. It has a different dynamic.
I'm not trying to be liked. But as long as 75m networth is considered 'good' on FFA, alliance players will look down on the abilities of FFA players.
This whole set I've put up with you believing that you're as good as Mercs. I've let you believe that lie. Maybe it was rude of me to let you believe that fantasy for a while, but now that the end of the set is coming, you're realizing that Mercs is out of your league. I have nothing against you personally, which is why I wanted to let you figure out on your own that Mercs was really good. I wanted you to realize it on your own, and then to congratulate us, without bringing up how you thought you guys had a chance to compete with us in TNW. I wanted to let you save face.
I even had a sense of humor in the other thread, where you posted that you expected a 100m nw cutoff for top 100, even though 80m networth was already not in the top 100 with over 4 days left, and anyone could tell that Mercs was doing the late set destock, not the early destock. I did it with humor, not condescension.
And then later in that thread I said that I hoped PAN & ESD stepped it up and didn't do the crappy netting that FFA is used to.
"Please tell me PANLV and ESD stepped up their game and didn't do the same crappy netting FFA is used to. I told em to bring it..." were my exact words.
I thought of that as friendly banter, not condescension. I don't think my friends in PANLV think of it as condescending, especially since some of them have stepped it up this set. If it was taken as being condescending, I didn't mean it that way.