I'm genuinely afraid that when I say things in a straightforward way

Myrmidon · 2012-02-11 22:14:14

It'll just seem lame, and no one will care.

Firebert · 2012-02-11 22:17:58

How else would you say things? In a needlessly complicated way?

MrW · 2012-02-11 22:38:14

So instead of saying "The keys are on the dining room table," you would say "The metal unlocking instruments are nestled on the furniture where we eat?"

Wha?

Crimson · 2012-02-11 22:43:03

Is this why you're always so cryptic?

MillerCross · 2012-02-11 22:54:35

You need to remember that Myrmidon's known for going for metaphors rather than an actual commentary.

Elbeem · 2012-02-11 22:55:33

This seems to be one of those situations where you inadvertently cause the very reaction you're trying to avoid, since your original point at times gets lost in the shuffle or is written off as "Myrmi's gonna Myrm".

I'm not saying this to make you feel bad, I just think you'd be better served by trying not to worry so much, and just focus on saying what you want to say.

ColorPrinter · 2012-02-11 23:02:58

Be straightforward. It's better than that metaphoric cryptic bullshit we were all tired of.

InsanityAddict · 2012-02-12 04:48:10

People don't care either way. Neither should you. The moment you feel insecure about a thread get too few replies is the moment you need to step away from the computer and go outside.

Nova · 2012-02-12 04:52:28

People don't care either way.

people have spent half the thread bitching about him not being straightforward

Firebert · 2012-02-12 05:49:47

Because God forbid you say what you're thinking.

InsanityAddict · 2012-02-12 06:22:20

Yet his threads still generate the same amount of replies whether obfuscating analogy or straightforward complaint. They maybe annoyed, but not annoyed enough to refrain from responding.

Nova · 2012-02-12 06:25:13

I am fairly sure "they may be annoyed" is fairly different to "people don't care either way".

Because they do. As people have pretty much made clear, they very much prefer straightforward threads.

MrW · 2012-02-12 08:06:41

People here have the same problem with Myr. His threads tend to be needlessly cryptic and metaphor-heavy, to the point where any idea of what he's actually talking about is lost in the shuffle.

Myrmidon · 2012-02-12 09:41:39

"His threads tend to be needlessly cryptic"
Yeah, I really need to fix that-

"and Faux-philosophical"

MillerCross · 2012-02-12 11:00:30

>Calling a philosophy major faux-philosophical

lol

MadassAlex · 2012-02-12 11:07:23

Myrm being a philosophy major explains a lot.

Ponicalica · 2012-02-12 11:38:55

«As people have pretty much made clear, they very much prefer straightforward threads.»

Yet, when Myrmidon does make a straightforward thread, it tends to be interpreted as a metaphor anyways.

This happened, you know.

Naas_Human · 2012-02-12 11:52:47

So basically, nothing will go well, huh?

MrW · 2012-02-12 11:54:19

To be perfectly honest, I had no clue that Myrm was a Philosophy major. Sorry. -_-

captainbrass · 2012-02-12 12:47:57

In spite of the efforts of some academic philosophers, philosophy does not automatically equal "pretentious bullshit in a made-up language no-one understands." It should be written to be comprehensible, like any other writing.

If you have a point to make, Myrm, just make your fucking point. If people don't respond, it's not the end of the world; if they do, great, and at least the response won't be along the lines of "What does this mean?" as it often is now. Not being understood is worse than sometimes being thought boring or not up to scratch.

ClockworkUniverse · 2012-02-12 12:50:20

Yet his threads still generate the same amount of replies whether obfuscating analogy or straightforward complaint. They maybe annoyed, but not annoyed enough to refrain from responding.

Don't they generate more replies when they're cryptic, because people have to spend a few posts figuring out what he's talking about before discussing it?

ColorPrinter · 2012-02-12 13:33:12

Don't they generate more replies when they're cryptic, because people have to spend a few posts figuring out what he's talking about before discussing it?

Except when it was very painfully obvious, i.e. nearly every single Troper Tales one