Idk. It feels like all our perspectives being so different is most of the reason why we all fight like we do. The reason I would never badger Dave beyond the pale is the same reason I get all the hate for Communism/Marxism: it's impossible to have the perspective of the American person or color when you haven't lived it, just like none of us can understand what it's like to be the Croatian fleeing a fucking literal war, or being a gay black fella in the Netherlands where the world is also completely and totally different.
And I think Trump is a literal punishment from God and the Gods upon humanity, but given the circumstances of 2016, it's hard for me to get mad about people who voted for him, which makes it hard for me to be mad at someone 5,000 miles away who doesn't see just how horrific an entity he is.
I wish we could all get together at a big ass round table and drink like they used to in medieval times over all this, because I feel like if we were all in the flesh and speaking with our real voices and minds, that this would be a much different, much more fluid and poignant conversation. Like when Dave and Crimson tore each other up for weeks in this thread, but then went and did the podcast together and all sounded right with the world. I really wish we could do that.
I want to be angrier and bring the spice, but i've lost all my anger I had earlier in the thread. I'm tired. I moved from NYC to Tennessee two weeks before the lockdown started and now I have love in my world that makes it really hard to be pissed off like I was when this started, and I'm convinced that if we could all just get in the same room and hash this out like a congressional conference, that it'd all be okay. On some level, I don't think any of us (save the legitimate 2020 Trump supporters, who can eat die and shit, literally, for all the good they do anyone after seeing this "man" for what he is and still rallying to his beckon call, fuck all three or four of you) really want to see wrong done or pain caused. We're all just on different sides of the spectrum, and it's hard to come together when all we have is this forum.
For the record, if there are ever tournaments again, and myself and
@M2Dave are ever at the same, the drinks are on me because no matter what our differences are, he's still in my Top 10 players of all time, and I'd love to pick his brain about what life was like in his time and region of the world.
We're all just a bunch of fucked up people who love Mortal Kombat, most of whom don't go out of their way to support the monsters, including
@Onryoki, who I've been reading and contemplating since he arrived, but trying to be Supreme Court Justice level objective about things (fuck Brett Kavanaugh forever) I don't think is the malicious person his opinions might lead you to believe he is. But when you live elsewhere in what's basically a different world, you can't fairly be expected to think in the mindset of the person like you or me who's been here the whole time.
Again, these are all problems I think being in the same room with whiskey and cigars and no fear of Covid could solve.