Good: Textbook tit-for-tat.
Natasha87: Grim trigger for a few tats and collusion.
Turncoat: Grim trigger; sometimes complete random walk probably due to depression.
Jim: Tit-for-tat with non-cooperative starting point and some added brownian motion.
Feathers, ChallengeSeeker: No tats at all.
SpatialMind: Mostly tit-for-tat.
Chapo: Tit for two tats.
Instrument, Luna, Aizen, Alice, Inquirer: ?????
Okay but you see in theory, tit for two tats is actually best if and only if done correctly. Almost without a doubt.
Agreed.
TC bullies docile people, and is docile towards people that attack him. Idk what that is.
It's called rewarding your enemies and deterring people that are nice to you.
There's a tactic in there.
Always keep them guessing. If you do the opposite of what every sane person does, they will never be able to read you. Lol.
Turncoat: Grim trigger; sometimes complete random walk probably due to depression.
I see it more as a refusal to take sides over anything but the subject matter itself, that and I see no reason to play pretend with people to make them feel better about me, that'd be appeasement which is disgusting. I find it better to be hated for being honest rather than liked for saying what they want to hear, even if such a strategy leads to short term problems in the name of long term consistency.
If they hate hearing what I have to say and blame it solely at me with no other questions, then that yields that they'd "Shoot the Messenger" rather than question where these ideas might be coming from. Sure I get things wrong sometimes like anyone else, but how they choose to address that shows more about them. The consistency also has people see what I say about others as data, even those who'd refuse to see it about themselves, which is better than having to sell it to each person individually through a false face like some sort of salesman.
In the end it yields fewer friends, but those who stick around are also truer friends.
Do you mean the random walk part? Because that has nothing to do with grim trigger, so I'm assuming that's what you mean.
If it's the random walk thing, then fair. I think you've been quite consistent in approaching every subject in isolation. However, I can also vaguely recall a consistent pattern in who you choose to side with being correlated with completely unrelated events in other topics, but I don't really care -- that's just human. The other bit about that random thing is how you arbitrarily choose to give cold shoulder to people, but maybe there's some crazy logic in there somewhere that I'm failing to understand.
The "honest" thing is BS though. I've never seen you change your mind, ever. I think I'd need to dig really, really hard to find a single occasion where you disagreed with someone and then changed your mind, even partially. You basically dig your heels in deep until it's like talking to a crazy person without any internal rules to evaluate what is wrong and what is right and your opponent decides it's a lost cause to talk to you (I've seen a lot of that).
I think even LiYang would be easier to convince, despite how polarized he is.
I have always liked to do things by the book. But its a book i wrote
You did. At least in the sc-verse you did.
Sometimes but mostly not.
Most of the time I let aggressors carry on, in turn they end up piercing themselves in my opinion. Maybe last month or so I had Delora acting immature and shit. It wasn't on my intelligence level and I see her as a bag lady and I feel pity for her regardless of her capacity to overreact with a grudge. In the end I still gave her what she wanted.
I'm not particularly revengeful either. For example, I had TC dox up my Family and Family Business in SC. Everyone with the same last name as me he can find in my City, he listed numbers every single day for several weeks. Following that, I acquired information about TC. I know his Mother is a copywriter and who she is. Now I see information on where he lives. I can easily call his Mother and tell her about the time her basement son told us how she molested him as a child. The point I'm making is, just because I can abuse information the way he did, doesn't mean I have any desire to stoop to such a despicable level to get revenge.
