No, not at all! My post was actually supposed to be coming from a positive place and attempting to dissuade folks from MORE personal assaults.

I'll happily walk through it again to try to clarify myself more, though. :)

The post title was a nod to a chapter in Two Betrayals from the first Halo game. This was supposed both reference the fact that I had come back from a self-induced hiatus to write it and to pull at the hearts of why we are here: Halo. If I had spoken it aloud, I would have also put the emphasis on "with feeling", to imply that this was going to be an affectionate post trying to suggest a positive solution.

Regarding the text of the post in general, I was referring to both Munky's post and your reply to it (and my pronouns were supposed to be for both of you as well, sorry if that wasn't clear).

Munky was being facetious with his post title and his initial lines, referencing the issue that began this sub-thread - taking someone's words to mean something else than they intended - by jokingly interpreting my words as an attack on Scarab yet again. He then went on to describe how frustrating it can be to be interpreted to say such harsh words when one doesn't mean to. Despite the fact that the intention was to show understanding towards me, I STILL didn't like seeing my name involved with harsh words, humorous rhetoric or not, and I said that if you go back and look at my post.

You also used harsh words towards his post, implying he was a "wuss" and was "part of the problem". I don't know what your reference to the past was concerning, but even if I am missing something, I think my main point still stands: if we continue to assault each other and take each other for villains, no matter who's doing it, or whatever techniques -aggressive or passive aggressive- that they may be using, we're just going to keep going in circles towards oblivion.

... And here I am, circling back around to try and explain myself because the same thing that started all this happened again. :)

When I said "not to diminish your feelings or approaches at all", it was meant to be a respectful nod of understanding of frustration you both might feel.

If it needs to be said, I do NOT believe it is a valid approach to demean people until they leave, nor do I think it's a productive approach to demean people who may be demeaning. Or demean people who are demeaning people who are deme--- Alright, I think you may get you get my point. ;)

(I'm also not saying that I'm innocent of this and have never accidentally or intentionally demeaned someone when I thought I was being attacked or something. Instead what I'm saying is that I doubt it helped the situation when I did.)

Again, I'm trying to suggest there may be a way to get out of these negative circles by simply trying to focus on Halo - the thing that brought us all together in the first place. Even though I may not be in the mood right now, I'm sure if Scarab and I sat down and played Halo we'd probably find some key to unlock better communication with each other. Perhaps focusing on a common joy will show just how much we have all have in common and prevent further circles like this from happening.

A line allows progress, a circle does not. :)