dek wrote:
I read the OP and skimmed some of the thread. Here are my thoughts:
1) It does amuse me that the whole ruckus was over wow. Or any video game. Not an important point but it's still funny to me.
2) Regarding Aestu's opinion on the matter... people are irrational. Every person on earth is. If you feel the reason to throw away a relationship is because the other person is being irrational, then you will live alone. QED.
3) She had an emotional reaction to something, and your apology should have elicited a counteracting emotion reaction. In other words, you handled it in the correct manner. You might have scaled it back a bit but that's not really a big deal. It should work. If it doesn't, then to hell with her.
Edit: I just wanted to add one more thought to the second point. Given that human beings have an emotional side (and thus an irrational side), it is actually highly ILLOGICAL to pretend that it either is not there or is not important. To do so is to simply live in a state of perpetual denial about the way the world actually works.
To that point, I would leave this quote from Lenny Bruce:
"Let me tell you the truth. The truth is what is, and what should be is a fantasy. A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago."
In this case, irrational people and the need to cater to emotional reactions is what is, and the idea that you should only interact with other people on a purely rational basis is the terrible terrible lie.
girls who get emotional over being called bad at a video game when they probabaly are is dumb. For that matter, anyone getting emotional over being called bad at a game is dumb.
That being said, there is such a thing as being too irrational. I can't speak for Aestu but I'm not refering to interacting with people on a purely rational basis. Just that women are 99% of the time not worth the trouble. Now, I'm not going to say I don't have an emotional side or that I pretend it's not there, I just don't need or have any real want of it. I'm pretty sure I could live a full life without a signifigant other and be reasonabally happy. Obviously, chances are I'd be much happier with someone if such a person existed. This isn't to say I shut all possibilities out, just that I'm not going out of my way to find "the one".
tldr: girls are crazy, guys are idiots