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Re: Airing of grievances (catch-all)

261 by kokorodoko
zorg wrote: Wed Oct 19, 2022 2:03 pmI remember hating to do anything approximating a research paper in school, because the teachers feedback was always "more citations". God forbid anyone have an original thought, or at least a thought from their own perspective.
Fucking hell, citation anxiety paralyzed me every time I tried to write something (do I need to cite this? do I need more notes?). I love writing but it's just impossible to get into a flow when it's like that. No fun.
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Re: Airing of grievances (catch-all)

262 by penningtron
Anthony Flack wrote: Tue Oct 18, 2022 7:30 pm Surely more generic is more helpful as a demonstration? They're not auditioning for your band.
MoreSpaceEcho wrote: Sure, but I mean, when you pick up a guitar do you just meekly strum open G and D chords or plunk out a riff so pedestrian that it'd get you kicked out of your third rate NWOBHM band in 1981?

I wanna see people actually PLAY the thing.
Right. I have no issue with Andy from Reverb tastefully dialing in a Soundgarden riff or whatever on a piece of gear where that makes sense. Failed LA Hair Metal Guy shredding pentatonic solos thru everything from a Roland Cube to a speaker emulator pedal just gets obnoxious after a hundred other demos like that.
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Re: Airing of grievances (catch-all)

263 by Dudley
I'm never sure how deliberately condescending beginning a response to something with "I'll bite" is meant to be.

There are some circumstances where I don't notice it, or it seems on point, but most of the time it screams "this issue and/or the way you have presented it is beneath me, but I will humour you and descend to your level to answer." It feels like it's built to backfire. If you're above it, don't descend, and if you're not above it, don't pretend you are.

Re: Airing of grievances (catch-all)

264 by zorg
Dudley wrote: Thu Oct 20, 2022 5:06 am I'm never sure how deliberately condescending beginning a response to something with "I'll bite" is meant to be.

There are some circumstances where I don't notice it, or it seems on point, but most of the time it screams "this issue and/or the way you have presented it is beneath me, but I will humour you and descend to your level to answer." It feels like it's built to backfire. If you're above it, don't descend, and if you're not above it, don't pretend you are.
Interesting....to me "I'll bite", sounds like the "bait" is tempting enough that the responder can't help but respond....so I would find that it is praising the posited topic as thoughtful and deserving of their attention.

"I'll take the bait" sounds like the"bait" is beneath them, and designed to be a provocation, and they feel but they want to school you, or otherwise argue. But even this could be used sarcastically or less insultingly.

Re: Airing of grievances (catch-all)

265 by Dudley
zorg wrote: Thu Oct 20, 2022 9:26 am Interesting....to me "I'll bite", sounds like the "bait" is tempting enough that the responder can't help but respond....so I would find that it is praising the posited topic as thoughtful and deserving of their attention.

"I'll take the bait" sounds like the"bait" is beneath them, and designed to be a provocation, and they feel but they want to school you, or otherwise argue. But even this could be used sarcastically or less insultingly.
Hadn't seen it that way, but will keep an eye out!

Re: Airing of grievances (catch-all)

266 by zircona1
Dudley wrote: Thu Oct 20, 2022 5:06 am I'm never sure how deliberately condescending beginning a response to something with "I'll bite" is meant to be.
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