Awkward Dragon

Just about everybody has that friend they love to hate. It's usually not just you, either; it's a group of your friends. It's almost like you keep them around just because you happen to dislike them so much that they make you laugh. I have one in real life, and I'm the only one of us who will dislike them to the person's face. Meanwhile, the rest of the group don't. She left campus a year or so ago, and every time she says she may come back, people rejoice on Facebook (where she announces it) and then laugh their butts off in real life and joke to each other about it.

It's really cruel if you think about it. If they weren't doing this (and instead were straight with her), she may not come back, find out she wasted thousands of dollars going to a school of people who hate her, and would instead do something worthwhile. And I'm not saying to have her not come back because I hate her (the only reason anyway), it's because it's just being unnecessarily nasty.

In the linkshell I used for social times (I also had one for game events, since most social linkshells don't do events except for 2 person adventuring) had people like that as well. The only problem with doing that sort of thing in linkshell chat (as opposed to whispering to someone in-game using the /tell command) is that when you go to the list to view whom is currently on-line, the list is lagged behind by about a minute. So someone who you didn't think was on might be on when you send a nasty message over linkshell about them. In this case, it was directed towards a member whom had a ... very hard time trying to stay alive during a certain event because he made stupid decisions (such as doing too much damage, which makes a target more likely to attack you, or standing in the wrong spot where he could be hit by attacks that effect an area, such as a cone shape in front of the monster). Paraphrased, somebody had said something to the effect of "*member* can't seem to stop getting screwed in the *expletive* by Bahamut and his {staff}."

Yeah. *HIS* staff. Image courtesy aleczan.com.

He logged in just in time to see that, said hello, and dropped his linkpearl.