for the sake of myhand (to pick and choose his spots to enter the conversation), carry on!
gaspumper: it's not about winning or losing but simply responding to eagle's initial gratuitous attack (see his response to unknown) & ace's somewhat ill-natured attack from out of the woodwork. i dont take verbal jousting (or myself) too seriously. after all, my name is gui (ghost/demon), so that is the persona i adopt.
master regulator, regarding your unimportant points:
- "gg, gl, lol" = a playful parody of online conversations in general and a little light-hearted self-deprecation (regl: it is hard to communicate with you; me: i communicate quite well in my games by saying gg, gl, lol)
- grammar: i attacked your language not your grammar, since it was hard to respond to such language devoid of meaning when my mind only reads your words as "[empty phrase] [empty phrase] [preposition] [empty phrase], you [empty phrase insult]"
- [overused metaphors](
http://web.archive.org/web/20110120095904/http://www.economist.com/research/styleGuide/index.cfm?page=673913): to sprinkle them in every now and then is fine. to make every clause a composition of 2-4 such phrases linked together by a mere preposition or pronoun is just ugly and defiles the english language to some extent. if you were a foreigner, i'd overlook it. but since you are most likely an american, it is troubling.
- capitalization: ee cummings' poetry & voltaire's first edition of le siecle de louis xiv (published in germany) both freely used lower case words. english once capitalized every noun (like german) but no longer does (thus original works from the 17th century capitalized every noun). an artistic or casual trend toward the lower case is nothing new and offers the writer a certain freedom of expression: personally, i edit/translate/teach english too much and the rules tire me, so i enjoy the casualness of lower cased words in less important or informal social settings.