• petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 months ago

      (so your suggestion of writing on cards is totally irrelevant)

      No, not literally… Okay.

      MotoAsh, you have to engage people in better faith.

      “Make sure to not let them fool you” is a goal, “never tell them yours first” is just a strategy being offered to meet that goal. I understand the implications of this “poorly stated” version just fine: this isn’t programming, you can break the strategy’s rules sometimes. I trust people taking this advice to apply good judgement.

      The only reason to argue with Sahara here in the way that you are is if you think they’re actually trying to trick people into being lonelier via some kind of yugioh trap card logic. Do you get the impression that they’re trying to trick people into being lonelier via yugioh trap card logic?

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          2 months ago

          I’m not the one confused, I understood Sahara just fine. I’m more confused why we’re 10 comments deep into, essentially, Sahara’s choice to use the word “never.”

          I’m asking this seriously: how do you handle sarcasm? Or hyperbole?

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              1 month ago

              Okay, so the word “never” is being used here in its hyperbolic form to, tactfully, strengthen the rhetoric. It impassions the speech to deliver a point with more verve than another choice would.

              The message is easy to receive. What is it you gain by being this needlessly contrarian?