Lurker > HeroicGammaRay

incidentally i was curious and name-searched after reading this topic. pretty happy with what people have said about me, though.

it's just natural for chats to become cliquey, and in the flow of real time chat a LOT of random topics come up that aren't significant enough to broach in a forum post. bringing up people outside of one's clique usually happens in that context, and that's going to include sometimes talking shit about them. with the exception of a meta-discussion like this i'd probably never state explicitly on board 8 that i think, say, ltm is a dumbass because it wouldn't come up, but i could totally see myself dropping a line like "ltm is a total dumbass" in a chat if it's even tangentially related to the conversation.

so i think it's more about chat dynamics than about being two-faced or whatever, or at least it is for me. it's also worth noting that the b8 server has a ton of different channels which are quite different in terms of who reads them and talks in them and how much gossip they feature. i have no interest in the main channel but have used others in the past.
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