so that you can look good by offering to do this.
Looking good to some people on the internet is the last thing I care about. I would never have picked this username if it were otherwise. I'm spending my evening on writing these posts because I want to make things up. There are some unanswered posts in the patch thread right now that I'd find much more joy in responding to (let alone actually working on the thing), so if nothing else: at least grant me the courtesy of accepting that my intentions are genuine.
It didn't make me feel good, and until you realize that
You banning me from your chat so that I couldn't comment on the championship match—something I had been looking forward to for most of the afternoon—didn't feel good either. Mic eventually unbanned me out of pity after I sent him countless of tear-soaked pms, but it was only for the last two games, and the whole affair had already ruined what would otherwise have been an enjoyable experience.
We've both done and/or said things the other would rather have seen we didn't, so we're both responsible for things getting ugly between us (and I do understand most the things you wrote). I don't think exhaustively recounting who did what, determining the precise share of blame and screaming at the other person that he should be the one making amends is going to bring us any closer to a resolution, so I'll leave it at this: I'm willing to get over it and be happy to forgive and move on. I hope you're willing to do the same.
...and if we can get past that, we may visit all of the personal attacks you've made on me in the chat during my league matches when I wasn't looking.
There are two things I should make clear about my comments on people's Dominion game in the chat of streams and, to a lesser extent, also on this forum in general:
1. I'm saying the exact same things to people's faces as I say behind their back. My comments to streams are made with the full knowledge that they might and probably will be read back later, so there's absolutely no sneakiness or cowardice going on. I take full responsibility for all of them. I'm also not applying different standards to different people, except for the common sense thing of focussing on the big issues with worse players and the smaller issues with better ones who are more likely to do the big things right.
2. None of my comments about someone's game are ever meant as a judgment of the player as a human being. I mean, I do horrible things and pick atrocious strategies all the time and say exactly that about my own game in my stream, that doesn't make me a terrible person lol. In fact I cannot comprehend why people would ever conflate the two. Would anyone take it personal if a 3-year old came up to them and said "bladeeboo daa"? I'm exactly like that 3-year old, although he's likely more intelligent and definitely more inventive. I'm just spewing nonsense all the time, though usually with a core of seriousness inside them. Laugh off the hull—that's what it's meant for most of all—and you get to the useful bit within.