Turncoat said:Online, actions and words are practically the same. I'd argue as much over IRL as well, as their words still grant the room to gauge for hypocrisies and the like.depends on many factors, online you can adopt a speech that covers up your emotions very well, and only someone very intuitive will be able to tell, the normies - npcs wil lfall for it, if i type "xoxo ok sweetie muah" npc's will think idgaf and i am trolling, but behind the screen i might be overthinking - over planning or even being triggered
Given enough time, their subtext will usually become clearer. There's a reason they choose to dawn the disguises they do, and the slips of the tongue (or fingers) can grant context on why they wear the masks at all.
People can fake consistent spelling mistakes and tactics enough times to establish a different sense of identity, but when you get them by the balls they'll sing surprisingly similar songs. I've watched multiple puppets be outed purely over how they respond when triggered, over how they can't help but be themselves when pushed far enough to break character. Even if their lapse in character doesn't immediately yield the answer it may down the line in hilarious ways.
Often times it's easy enough to hide in plain sight based on how they'd prefer to see it, like when I was a series of puppets reposting critiques under multiple names. They kept assuming it was Jim no matter what it did simply because that's how they resolve a mystery when they have nothing to go on but what feels familiar to them. For those who really bothered with the subtext they'd have seen the puppets were trying too hard, they even had my hours ffs.
Turncoat said:So you admit to conforming to another's idea of perfection, aka 'The Elite'?no it's my own, unfortunately their own eliteness must be integrated to reach it, no other way around it, my plan is to beat that down too
How does your idea of the elite contrast from others' ideas of it?
Turncoat said:I say fuck being elite, such actions are masturbatory. I'd rather be real without having to bludgeon myself enough times to become someone else through symbols and effigies.i don't get what you mean by "being real" tbh, i can only be honest, authentic, and realistic, but real? in what aspect? to myself? others? both? cause that's always changing, just like peoples circumstances -emotions -needs to, claiming you can be constantly real shows low functionality or possibly arrgoance
Real as in saying my weaknesses as openly as my strengths, not playing the game that'd presume I'm better than I am. Real as in becoming what fits my life (as much as is possible) rather than what others have said everyone should be doing.
Through accepting my truths, no one can use them against me. If they cannot hurt me over these things as much as I hurt myself then they will always feel weaker than my own self-directed damages. The bar simply ends up too high and they don't know what to do over someone who isn't losing their shit, and should I lose my shit that'll serve as an example to showcase later how the latter expression is not the same as the former.
If they can't hit me as hard as I hit myself, it also shows me how hard I've been hitting myself in the first place, which works as a fairly healthy reality check when my assumed outcome is worse than what ends up happening (ie: when I got doxxed). Be the best self-abuser you can be, set the bar as high as your own inner demons want to take you, and no one else will be able to bring it out of you as a shocking surprise.
By establishing my real self as my public self, they can't do anything more than what I've shown them, and if they hit me somewhere I was not ready for then that's a chance for me to grow from it, establish that weakness publicly, and then surpass it in ways where they can't use them as ammunition once it becomes old news rather than an unresolved issue.
Turncoat said:If it were that easy, boxing'd be an entirely different sport dude.
The first hit is very important, they can't combo if they can't connect. All of anyone's combo training's crap if they can just sidestep or parry the beginning of it, and even once in it there's plenty of ways to roll through the move to minimize the hurt.
gauging the distance is the most important and footwork plus eye coordination, boxing is hard af, rolling through the movement... impossible once you get into a slugfest
Boxing's a lot of upper body bobbing and weaving, dodging's essential. The real weakness is over their footing being too braced, but then again it's meant to be sport combat with realistic applications rather than handled as 1-to-1 between the street and the ring.
Turncoat said:Those can make very clever feints, especially if you dupe the enemy into thinking you're predictable.
To quote the Jade Warlord from Forbidden Kingdom when fighting his greatest enemy: "Martial art is based on deception, my friend."
It's the closest we have to anything objective, as we can see the patterns appearing time and time again across our species even in other countries. Past a point as broad as that it's all subjective.
deception doesn't work always, sometimes it's all about athletic performance in martial arts, it's not a chess game, fighting IQ - ability is totally different to tactics and strategy
Athletic performance is the entry fee, but once you're skilled enough it becomes about mind games, how you land the hits you're capable of rather than simply knowing the moves and having enoug heft behind them.
From having sparred many times against someone heavy enough that me doing a running jump kick had me bounce off, I had to consider more strategy than sheer power. Even Muai Thai has a lot of focus on busting the legs from it being a recognizable weakpoint in all body types, similar to the head.
Turncoat said:Excuse me?
Do I need to link you a bunch of Derren Brown as a counter-argument?
disagree with him and you,
What'd Derren get wrong? The dude's a pretty tricky mentalist who uses tried and true strategies for most of his work.
for me you are only persuaded when you feel exactly what the person who makes the argument feels, agree completely with it, truly understand it, and can narrate it as well as he does
I moreso try to provoke truths out of people that they didn't expect themselves to say. Oftentimes I don't know what I'm going to get by the end of the journey with the other person in question, but by the end of it there's almost always something I gained from it that applies later in life.
nah, if an opinion can change cause of external forces, it's not acquired knowledge, acquired real knowledge should be absolute
Can't someone learn opposing pieces of knowledge, stuck in the end having to pick which one makes the most sense to them from lacking an objective truth to work from?
Turncoat said:I don't see being stubborn as winning. I've definitely seen my share of "I'm not convinced, so I win", but I wouldn't claim someone else lost if I didn't end up changing my mind by the end of it.what happens when you ask random people, from different ideologies, philosophies, who got no reason to lie to you, or even people who dislike you greatly, and they agreed you won? and the only person who doesn't is the loser?
What's wrong with losing?
To be honest, growing up, the losses I took were much more invaluable than the victories. Losing shows me that I have something I need to work on, while winning just confirms that I don't need to try any harder.
