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Yeah, this is consistent with my experience too. I got one or two participation ribbons in my whole school life (graduated early 2000s), but they weren't common, and they never came at the exclusion of winners being recognized.

I didn't downvote anyone, why ask me? But if you haven't noticed that VAs have been having a hard time lately with being harassed for asinine things, let this be a wakeup call. It happens, and it happens a lot. Brushing them off as a mentally ill super tiny minority is not the reality of things unfortunately.

I'm not saying OP is one of them, but I do think it's potentially dangerous to just assume someone is definitely kidding when so many who say the same things aren't.

And that's the problem: he's making reference to something that happens in game... as a reason not to go to an actor's stream. As if it's the actor's fault that scene happened.

Is it a joke though? Whole swaths of the internet legitimately have no ability to separate fiction from reality... really seems like this guy (and at least one other reply to him) is upset at Neil Newborn for things Astarion did.

If it's a joke, Poe's Law is in full effect, because I've met so many people who are actually like this.

the black spots you get in clothes when you leave them in a wet pile for too long

We call that mold or mildew.

that's just a whole other level of insanity

glad you can't deal this argument anymore

If you think [...] then you haven't really seen

Incidentally, I've got another measure for when someone is probably a bad person. Someone else in this comment section said it, so I'll quote and link.

they get angry with you for enforcing your boundries.

Now, see, that up there was me enforcing my boundaries, and you hauled off and insulted my sanity and made all kinds of assumptions about my life experience. Painted yourself into a corner on this one, my dude.

I really don't have the desire to deal with this level of unhinge over carts, especially when most of it is self-contradictory, begging the question, and/or straight up incorrect.

If I was willing to meet you halfway with "just irresponsible, not bad" before, this response right here eliminated all that.

What error, exactly? If someone makes a choice and doesn't take responsibility for that choice, there's no error in judgment calling that person irresponsible. Mitigating circumstances like a person's childcare situation are only mitigating circumstances because there was irresponsibility in the first place to mitigate. It's still irresponsibility. There was no error.

Not to mention, the damn sun here, it gets absolutely hot here at times, even I don't see myself walking halfway to the other part of the parking lot just to leave a cart when I already walked all the way from the entrance carrying all of my groceries, I don't see myself returning in that case.

Lost me here, nope, nooooope nope nope nope. The weather is the least justifiable excuse -- Someone has to walk all that way to return that cart in the hot sun if you don't. If anything, making someone else do it is worse because of that weather.

I also saw you throwing out "but they have employees who do that" in another part of the thread. You wouldn't throw trash on the ground instead of walking it to a can just because a place has a janitor, I'm sure. It's exactly the same logic, and the reason you wouldn't ruin a janitor's day is the same reason you shouldn't ruin a cart collector's day.

I get that your local shop sucks for only having one corral. I really, truly do. But you know what I do when my closest store has practices I can't deal with? I don't make someone else clean up after me, I take my money elsewhere.

Okay but....

There's really no reason not to unless you just give zero shits about the damage a loose cart can do.

That's exactly the kind of sign you want: it's a person who thinks "it won't affect me because I'm leaving, so it's not my problem."

I wonder if this is why I’ll see a post has a larger comment count than the comments I can read, too.

If you've blocked someone, that person's comments and all comments replying to theirs are hidden from your view. This is my only guess why you might be seeing this. The comment count you see on your instance should be accurate, since it only counts comments it knows about and it doesn't know about defederated ones.

Drama between Hexbear and ShitJustWorks. Have some popcorn.

I mean, we were all thinking it. Putting the warning to stop us from doing so seriously while still indulging the joke was the right way to go.