[Catlady]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Nobody forces you to attend her party, either. In fact, I personally believe it will be a very small party, possibly held in a basement.

Catlady is perfectly welcome to miss out on all the fun, and die sad and lacking. Or indeed, to have her own interpretation whereby it is we who will die sad at having wasted our lives on pointless nonsensical garbage that rots the brain.

Who CARES what deluded fools who don't appreciate SciFi think? They cannot stop us from enjoying our books all the livelong day, now can it?

See how easy it is, when we just don't care about others' misinformed critique?
See how easy it is, when we don't get all excited over nothing?

Originally Posted by BWinmill

Something tells me that Quexos wasn't invited since, rumour has it, that the guest list is restricted to androids and aliens.

I suspect that it is the tone of the original post. It is one thing to say, "I don't like SF," and it is quite another to say, "I'll throw a party if it dies." The former is nothing more and nothing less than a person's taste. The latter implies that they will get pleasure when someone else is deprived of something that they enjoy.

Originally Posted by eschwartz

I just think we'd all be happier if people would emulate me more... The only thing I derived from that original post by the alleged partier, is a determination to gloss over said partier's posts for (at least) this thread. It was nothing but a crank, so why react?
And I am happier for it (although thinking about it indirectly, by offering guidance to Quexos, may have slightly soiled my ability to ignore it...).

Originally Posted by JSWolf

And whoever's basement is used will be living there in his/her mother's house.

For making a little joke about SF that expressed my personal dislike for the genre, I am now characterized as:

1. sad and lacking
2. a deluded fool
3. misinformed
4. someone who gets pleasure from depriving others of enjoyment
5. a crank
6. someone who lives with mom

This kind of nasty overreaction suggests that some SF fans might want to abandon their favorite genre occasionally to work on polite social interaction with other human beings.