[ninetyninenine]

You are projecting, and everyone can see it. You pretended that I was being rude while you slipped in sarcasm, personal digs, and that condescending “best of luck” as if it made you look polite. It doesn’t. That is not civility. It is passive aggression wrapped in fake courtesy.

You completely dropped the argument and went straight for personal attacks. That is not confidence, it is surrender. You are no longer debating, you are lashing out because you ran out of ideas. You can claim the conversation “wasn’t beyond your depth,” but you abandoned every point the moment you were asked to defend it. Then you tried to flip it by pretending that walking away made you the mature one. It didn’t. It made you the one who couldn’t keep up and needed an exit.

You can dress it up with sarcasm and moral posturing, but that doesn’t change what happened. The moment you shifted from ideas to insults, you showed everyone reading that you had nothing left to stand on. The difference between us is simple: I stayed on topic. You turned it into attitude. And now everyone can see exactly who ran out of substance first.

[heyjamesknight]

No moral posturing and no insults. Your behavior is just objectively noxious. Not just to me, not just in this thread: the vast majority of your conversations here go roughly the way this one did. A quick glance at your profile shows roughly half of the comments you make here end up light grey.

You have an enormous chip on your shoulder. You consistently make truth claims about entire fields that are still in debate and then you arrogantly shout over the other person when they disagree with you.

I strongly suggest you work on this. It will limit you in life. It probably already has. You probably already know how it has, even!

I'm not saying this to be mean, or because I "have nothing left to stand on." You're clearly intelligent and you clearly care about this topic. But until you mature and learn to behave, others will continue to withdraw from conversation with you.

Best of luck.

[ninetyninenine]

You have already abandoned the debate and moved into stalking and personal attacks. That is not a sign of strength. It is proof you ran out of substance and are trying to win by humiliation instead.

You dug through my profile to manufacture a narrative about my character because you could not answer a single technical point. That is petty and dishonest. It is also exactly the kind of behavior moderators and civil participants call out. If you actually cared about truth you would stay on topic. Instead you weaponized the comment section to attack me personally.

Do not mistake tone for argument. I stood on evidence and logic. You offered sneers, a mock sign off, and then tried to moralize. That is not persuasion. It is performative virtue signaling layered over an exit strategy.

If you want to be taken seriously, stop the profile policing, stop the personal diagnostics, and engage the claims you think are wrong. Make one focused counterargument. Otherwise your behavior will read to everyone as what it is: a public temper tantrum disguised as concern.

You can keep doing this. It will not change the facts. It will only make readers pity the quality of your argument and worry that you are the kind of person who cannot have a grown up debate. If you are interested in a real exchange, show it. If not, spare the thread the noise.

[heyjamesknight]

Okie dokie mate, whatever you say.

Best of luck!

[ninetyninenine]

Adorable exit. Nothing says “I’m out of arguments” quite like a cheery “okie dokie mate.” Best of luck holding that pose.

[heyjamesknight]

You’ve said the same thing fifteen times now.

I still don’t want to play with you, sorry.

[ninetyninenine]

Fair enough. You’ve spent the whole thread talking about me instead of the topic, so saying you don’t want to play now is a bit rich. You’ve been playing the whole time, just mistaking the sound of your own confusion for strategy.