| Ugly times there! Neither am I. Perhaps the game value is different these days. No game is worth my friendships. Would have to speak up, then follow it through and adhere to the golden rules to treat people right while it all gets sorted out. Anyone not on board with sniffing something that toxic out is just going to have to go their way, best of luck, etc... Maybe these things help people. Hope so though I do feel it all is a sort of dodge around people both being more direct in their interactions, which absolutely do include benefit of the doubt being given where necessary. And having just a bit thicker skin, that being derived from "we are as offended as we think we are" basically mandating everyone managing how they respond to potential offenses. There just are a whole bunch of ways to do that which leave others the outs needed to bring the conversation to a reasonable place and more of us need to use them more of the time. Put another way, the people burning an hour trying to figure out who is the biggest asshole deserve to have that conversation. Maybe that just isn't so important? Thanks for an interesting exchange everyone. I will read final responses on my way out. |