everyone says offtopic is a family, right? and family gives second chances when people are dicks. family loves family unconditionally. since “offtopic” encompasses [b]all[/b] the users, can we please try to be nicer to one of the people that we’ve shunned? i’ve noticed that otter has been trying to be kind recently, so let’s be kind back. perhaps if he insults you, just don’t take it personally and just stop talking to him for a quick second. this post is in no way meant to bash on otter though, he really is trying, so let’s drop our baggage and try to be kind to him.
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Fine. But let me just say this: I know what happens when you give toxic people another chance. They never change. They try to manipulate you into feeling sympathy for them, then they just go back to their normal bs. I had a "friend" like this once, in the sense that he treated everyone like trash only to try to crawl back later. I knew him for a good year and a half, almost 2 years, and for the first year he was really normal and laid back. Then I really started to get to know him via my other friends and how he treated them. He was really a spineless coward who saw his friends as just shoulders to cry on, but they weren't allowed to talk about their issues. Friends were nothing but entertainment, and if they ever wanted to get sincere, he would just disappear. But most important of all, he would never take responsibility for his mistakes. He would either play dumb and not know there was an issue at all, blame it all on "muh angzyetty" and "muh depreshun", even though he was never diagnosed with either, or just straight up blame YOU. Never ONCE did he actually try to take responsibility. Thankfully, we all realized how shitty he was at around the same time and blocked him on pretty much everything. Good riddance, you selfish bastard...