SHINAN'S PROFILE

That is what the internet was built upon. The olden rules don't apply over here. Your pesky social skills count for NOTHING. NOTHING I tell you.

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Shallow and polite acquaintances are important in situations. Take work for example. You work with someone 40 hours a week, and their personality really grates you, and your personality yours. Should you be honest and keep on bugging that open wound, or should you be civil with one another. Should you realize that you both are going to be staying there, and you'll have to make the best of the situation and work with the other person despite not liking them. This is also not being fake, it's two people trying their best to make a situation better for everyone.

Of course I know this has to happen in that strange and weird place called "real life".
But seriously. There is very little reason to do this online.


Looking back at my post it seems it may have come off as being shallow and polite was a bad thing to do in real life when what I really meant is that it's something you have to do there but that isn't really necessary online.

Now I said the same thing twice. That's what happens when you think for fifteen minutes before writing a sentence and then writing another and pausing another fifteen.

Due to the way online communication works is that it's usually better to be "direct" online. One of the major reasons for this is that you can't really tell what a person is by the tone of voice or body language online. So it's always best to be as straightforward as possible online while in the Real World (tm) you'll want to take it slower.

That's what I meant. Probably.

On the other hand not censoring yourself and being "an asshole" may connect you to just the kind of people you want to connect with rather than the "shallow and polite" acquintances that can sometimes occur in that dreaded "real life".

So for some politeness is just that social construct used to hide our true selves :D

I don't mind any kind of language. I like my profanities as much as the next guy as long as it's consistent. Having a previously non-swearing character swear sucks just as much as it generally does when someone steps out of character.

I probably also agree with WIP that those small RM2k cute anime people going around swearing does feel a bit strange and that's probably the biggest issue I have with the swearin'.

I never fullscreen anything. So usually I have lots more than that on top of each other.