That is plausible enough: Despite once being as fervent as anyone for wotmaniacs staying in touch, in the year between pledging and MAKING that response to Legolas I had no contact of any kind with any wotmaniacs (apart from the obvious exceptions.)

View original postAverage conversation doesn't make me want to punch my screen as hard as possible in hopes you'll somehow feel it...only political conversation. I think it's all those smiley faces you use

I try to live by Poes Law online, but could use far less spite. Were liberals as amoral as often alleged I would not care enough to be passionate.

View original postAlso, if you promise someone a response, why don't you reply right away instead of waiting a year and then replying when no one, including the person you made the promise to, could possibly care anymore? I'm not even being snarky, I'm genuinely curious

Because baby. I INTENDED a full reply within a week at most, but had higher priority nigh-ceaseless duties. Since my daughter became mobile posting has been limited to when she sleeps and before I do; the rest of the time I must be ready at a moments notice to pull her away from a electrical outlet or up from a fall, and constantly watch her so I am. Plus simply having the laptop open invites ongoing wrestling over who gets to type; daring to USE it ensures one. Even if I could spare more than a minute or two of attention at a time to do so, which I cannot. When I began twelve hours shifts back in TX posting at the length and frequency to which I was accustomed at wotmania became impractical, but parenthood made it flatly impossible.

As to why I even bothered after a year, it was partly a matter of guilt and partly a matter of knowing every debate millennia old is so static the passage of any given year rarely makes any comment any more or less relevant (as noted in the subject line of that response.) The main difference is there has been slightly more of a specific type of violence in a specific part of the world lately, but (as also noted in that discussion) even that is relative to its historically irregular but endless ebb and flow. The world never qualitatively changes, only escalates. But that and ALL conflicts emphasize our escalation to a plateau with MULTIPLE means of omnicide and no open uncharted frontiers left for lebensraum, so: Where do we go from up...?