Lady Olivia wrote...
You haven't offended me, especially not in the sense that I'd be bothered by your attitude towards the death of a fictional character. What bothered me about your reply is that I clearly stated that the dream had been disturbing, meaning that I was having a strong emotional reaction to it, and you essentially mocked it.
No, I'm pretty sure he mocked your subconscious for being a mean ****** to you, not your (very understandable) emotional reaction to the dream your subconcious so graciously gifted to you.
My subconscious is a mean ****** to me all the time, so I know the feeling. I can no longer count the nights I have dreamt of playing ME3 - ACTUALLY playing the bloody game, with a 360 control in hand that feels as real as the actual 360 control and a screen depicting the game just as I imagined it, all of it feeling as real as anything... just for me to wake up and realize it's all a dream and that it's still 9 months away. I
literally wake up to say, "WHY? WHY WOULD YOU EVEN DO THAT?" to my subconscious every morning this happens.
I swear, if I had a gun with 2 bullets and I were in the same room as Bobby Kotick, Hitler and my subconscious, I would shoot Bobby Kotick twice, crack Hitler's skull with the butt of the gun and then strangle my subconscious, in that order.
Lady Olivia wrote...
Not to mention how presumptuous it is of you to assume that you can know anything about my subconscious from the description of one dream given over a public forum.
He didn't. And to be fair, not even
you know anything about your subconscious - no offense intended.
None of us knows our own subconscious (if we did, it wouldn't be using the "sub"-prefix), and we never will unless we invent the dream tech used in Inception (I hope we do
, because I'd like to meet my subconscious for reasons stated above).
Lady Olivia wrote...
Perhaps I shouldn't post things with heavy emotional context, but I felt safe doing so here because others have done it before and I don't remember they'd been mocked for it.
On the internet, everyone are elcor who doesn't explain what they really mean with the things they say.
Because of the fact that text doesn't reveal tone or body language, it's easy to mistake a statement for meaning something that it doesn't. Just take internet sarcasm as a good example. Everyone uses it, but no one understands it, everyone gets it wrong and everyone gets insulted for it. It's an evil spiral.
So, we should all be more like the elcor.
Pleased remark, this is much better, isn't it?
Lady Olivia wrote...
It's just... perhaps a bit more care, you know? Think how you'd feel if you said, "I'm genuinely sad for whatever reason," and somebody answered, "HAHA."
I did, in fact, recently have a somewhat similiar dream in which I took the role, personality and mind of Sheploo John Shepard on a smaller frigate flying at a 10+ kilometer altitude across a windy, cloudy landscape, tailed by Cerberus shuttles. These shuttles eventually managed to lock themselves to the docking hatch of the frigate midflight (don't ask me how, the plot holes were a-plenty in that dream) and allow Cerberus soldiers to board the vessel.
For some reason, the frigate had all these impractical, massive ceiling-to-floor panoramic windows everywhere along the ship hull, so I came up with this BRILLIANT idea of shooting the windows and use the decompression effect (apparently the frigate had no mass effect fields to prevent this! [smilie]http://social.bioware.com/images/forum/emoticons/tongue.png[/smilie]) to flush out the soldiers.
Only problem was, an airbump later, Miranda - one of the squadmates present - lost her grip and fell out the very hole I just created into the harsh, unforgiving and most certainly lethal embrace of Lady Gravity. While it was happening and a short moment after waking up, this was horribly, horribly traumatizing. I lost someone under my command due to actions I thought would actually help us. Man, the guilt trip was terrible.
Now, while I like Miranda as a squadmate and appreciate her as a good and well-written character, she's never been anywhere near my 5 top favorite ME characters or the list of characters I wouldn't want to see die in ME3. Before this dream, I barely paid her any attention, and afterwards, all I can think about when her name is mentioned is how I DO NOT WANT her to die like she did in the dream. While I didn't tell anyone on the forum about the dream (it never actually occured to me until now), I DID tell a few of my fellow ME-fan friends, all of whom thought I was:
1) Being ridiculous for getting worked up over a dream.
2) Falling for Miranda's "assets".
3) Playing/discussing/nerding Mass Effect WAY too much for my own good, which is probably true.
Now, I could have felt insulted because how they reacted to me sharing this very emotional dream... and unlike BubbleSauce, they actually insulted
me as opposed to just my subconscious... but I just let it go. If they had reacted similiarly to the death of a relative or good friend, THEN I would have felt incredibly insulted. But it was just a dream - a horrible and traumatizing dream, but a dream nonetheless.
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Gets complicated after a few rounds, doesn't it? We're all good,as far as I'm concerned. I overreacted a bit, can't promise it won't happen again! :innocent:
