the "aha, I baited you into replying to my reply to your comment, see, you do care after all, if you really didn't care then you wouldn't reply" schtick is incredibly tired and played-out too, as well as insultingly petty and completely unbecoming.

if you were willing to rephrase whatever opinions you assimilated from plural Polygon articles into your own words and ask what I think about them, then I might have been slightly more likely to engage with them (your opinions). but merely repeatedly linking to something someone else wrote and saying "so what do you think about that, huh?" is not exactly interesting discourse. there is no "intellectual curiosity" (HN rules) happening here, just weak attempts at baiting the same old tired Internet arguments from the past decade, which many people, myself included, are long since exhausted with.

what do you expect to gain from this continued exchange?

(note that I'm posing a question to you, inviting you to reply to me, if you so choose, and, if you do, I won't mock or belittle you for replying, because this is a discussion website, and that would be silly.)

Once again, for someone who has said multiple times that they don't care to engage and are above all these "weak attempts at baiting", you sure are putting a lot of time continuing to engage.

It's very hard to pretend to not care when you write multiple impassioned paragraphs about what you consider interesting discourse and what is beneath you. Your continued insistence of this "I'm better than you and this argument" does nothing but show that you do, indeed continue to care.

So maybe put all of this time that is so beneath you to read the article, and then you can proceed to insult it rather than just insulting the lowly people beneath you and our petty arguments.

I care more about this website and the quality of discourse on it (since that's all there is to it) than I care about what Polygon opinion piece writers think about being offended on the behalf of others over fantasy writing—you seem to have these priorities reversed, hence your ongoing "aha, I baited you into replying to me" schtick, which is not interesting, curious, intellectually-stimulating discourse, and neither is "just read these articles I didn't write in order to learn what my opinion is so I can argue with you about that instead of mocking you for replying to me."

> which is not interesting, curious, intellectually-stimulating discourse

Yet, here you are, continuing to reply. Maybe you should stop stooping to the clearly awfully low bar and falling for my schtick. It obviously isn't intellectually stimulating enough or worthy enough of your precious time.

why are you continuing to blatantly disregard the rules of this website? do you think your posts are making this community a better or worse place?

What, exactly, do you think you are adding to this platform?

You think that telling people their opinion doesn’t matter because they chose to have an article state it for them is helpful?

You think that constantly implying and downright saying the people you are interacting with are below you, your intelligence and your time, are providing benefit to the discourse on the site?

You’re just as bad if not worse and you certainly don’t come from a place where you can even remotely tell others when they “blatantly disregard the rules of this website” when your first comment throws them out the window and the rest are acting as if they’re in a different dimension.

In other words, get off that high horse.

Next time, engage by actually listening to another person, whether it’s their words or an article they provide, and comment on that. Not whatever bullshit game you think you’re playing by pretending to be above it all.

> You think that telling people their opinion doesn’t matter because they chose to have an article state it for them is helpful?

yes. imagine if everyone here posted blogpost URLs in place of comments, as if that constituted a valid discussion—this site would be a wreck. encouraging the minimal amount of critical thinking necessary to show that you have internalized something you have read to the point where you can restate it in your own words is a generally good idea for a good-faith discussion-based website. the best discussions on this website involve people putting effort into conveying their thoughts and rhetoric, instead of linking to the thoughts and rhetoric of others and instructing them to read it in its entirety before replying, such that they have to put effort into formulating and then conveying their own counter-opinion, while you had to do no such thing. that doesn't really sound like a good-faith discussion, does it? this is all I was trying to convey.

I never said anyone was below me or my intellect or anything like that, I said that I don't care to read what Polygon has to say comparing fantasy races to real-world ones, nor argue about anything like that. you seem to have taken this personally, and for that I apologize—I did not mean to impugn you as a person at all (until you began the "aha I baited you into replying" schtick, which is always frustrating and an easy indicator that the person doing such things never actually wanted to have a good-faith discussion to begin with). you mistook a couple of remarks I made as personal attacks, or something (even though you didn't post any opinions of your own, so I'm not sure how I was supposed to do that…), and that was not my intent whatsoever.