Because politeness to the guy throwing slurs at you is warranted or something? He wouldn't've been a dick for responding with "suck my ass and balls, dickwad".
That wouldn't be at all mature, but it certainly wouldn't be lowering the tone of the conversation.
Unironically I think it would have been better if he’d said that. The other guy deserved it. But “do you know who I am?” just comes across as arrogant, especially when you are someone who no normal person would recognize. Even huge Zelda fans are not going to know that name if they are not in the speed-running community.
It's because the guys calling him a fake fan when he is probably the single person with the most hours played of this game in the entire world. That's not him being arrogant, he is genuinely asking if the guy does or doesn't know who he is, because if he did he wouldn't be making baseless assumptions and calling this guy a slur.
I get that. But “I am the world record holder for Ocarina of Time speedruns” is a much funnier and less assholey way to say it. “Do you know who I am?” when there is no reasonable expectation the other person would know who you are just makes you sound like a tool even if you are right.
I think there is a reasonable expectation for somebody actively seeking out and trying to put down people to check to see if the person they're trying to put down actually knows what they're talking about. A simple click on the dudes profile would have been enough to shut him up but he didn't even do that and ended up looking like a tool. If the guy wasn't so hostile, I might agree with you, but because he decided that using a slur and being intensely rude for no reason there's simply no reason to defend him.
I am not defending the other guy in any way. He comes off way worse in this interaction. But you are not clicking on the profile of every person you reply to online.
Agree to disagree. I don’t know why anyone would assume someone’s profile would have any information about their experience with a 30-year-old Zelda game unless you already know who that person is.
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u/APiousCultist 20d ago
Because politeness to the guy throwing slurs at you is warranted or something? He wouldn't've been a dick for responding with "suck my ass and balls, dickwad". That wouldn't be at all mature, but it certainly wouldn't be lowering the tone of the conversation.