# Sicks Ate and other Epic games apologists a word please. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 19, 2019, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicks-ate-and-other-epic-games-apologists-a-word-please/834197 "2019-05-19T19:18:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disgruntled_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicks-ate-and-other-epic-games-apologists-a-word-please/834197/21 "2019-05-20T17:20:12Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > I will say this was funny as fuck: I’m glad you amuse so easily. There are way too many uptight people out there. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicks-ate-and-other-epic-games-apologists-a-word-please/834197/22 "2019-05-20T17:46:33Z")
I can do both. I have many talents, DP. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicks-ate-and-other-epic-games-apologists-a-word-please/834197/23 "2019-05-20T17:52:06Z")
I just _opene_d this thread and now I owe EA five dollars! ---
**Author:** ![Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disgruntled_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicks-ate-and-other-epic-games-apologists-a-word-please/834197/24 "2019-05-20T17:57:52Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > I can do both. I have many talents, DP. Do both? I was complementing you having a sense of humor what is the other thing you can do? I mean, I could suggest a few but anything I’d say you’d just hand wave off as me being upset and since that’s your basis for your participation in this thread I have to cede anything slightly humorous or slightly salty or fight a perception battle you’ve already framed and I’m not going to play that game. Not from the short position anyway. I’d be lying if said I haven’t used that gotcha well on occasion. Enough to know there’s no winning once the trap has been sent. That makes dealing with you kinda boring frankly but whatcha gonna do? You open the thread you takes your chances. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicks-ate-and-other-epic-games-apologists-a-word-please/834197/25 "2019-05-20T17:58:21Z")
> [@disgruntled penguin](#): > > well, i do now but no, i didn’t, even with his shortening excavating (for a mind) . Might have caught it if he’d called them efam or something but it didn’t come immediately to mind nor did i spend much time dwelling on it. I assumed it was some new kind of lingo that i hadn’t encountered yet. > > Hell, i’m struggling with emoji’s forget getting abbreviation lingo correct. ygg! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disgruntled_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicks-ate-and-other-epic-games-apologists-a-word-please/834197/26 "2019-05-20T17:59:02Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > I just _opene_d this thread and now I owe EA five dollars! Is that another poster whose initials I don’t immediately recognize. FUCK. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disgruntled_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicks-ate-and-other-epic-games-apologists-a-word-please/834197/27 "2019-05-20T18:02:12Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > ygg! > > 🙂 Ha. I know those initials. Whats funny is I don’t think I’d have recognized DP anyway. I don’t use this username anywhere but here. It was picked arbitrarily as an attempt to come up with something that sounded surreal. While I quite like it I don’t post enough where I consider myself DP at all. It’s just some sign in information and a way for others to understand all my thoughts come from me. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicks-ate-and-other-epic-games-apologists-a-word-please/834197/28 "2019-05-20T18:03:41Z")
> [@Disgruntled\_Penguin](#): > > Is that another poster whose initials I don’t immediately recognize. FUCK. > > 😉 Now that! was mildly funny. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicks-ate-and-other-epic-games-apologists-a-word-please/834197/29 "2019-05-20T18:25:47Z")
> [@Disgruntled\_Penguin](#): > > Do both? I was complementing you having a sense of humor what is the other thing you can do? > > I mean, I could suggest a few but anything I’d say you’d just hand wave off as me being upset and since that’s your basis for your participation in this thread I have to cede anything slightly humorous or slightly salty or fight a perception battle you’ve already framed and I’m not going to play that game. Not from the short position anyway. I’d be lying if said I haven’t used that gotcha well on occasion. Enough to know there’s no winning once the trap has been sent. > > That makes dealing with you kinda boring frankly but whatcha gonna do? You open the thread you takes your chances. OMG dude, this is too funny. Seriously, are you so literal that you didn’t recognize your own initials when I used them _immediately_ following your post complaining that I truncated another users name? Can you not recognize a simple joke? Do you not know how conversations work? Are you so thin-skinned that you have to take every comment made and turn it deeply personal? Wait… don’t answer that last one. It’s already answered. ---
**Author:** ![Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disgruntled_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicks-ate-and-other-epic-games-apologists-a-word-please/834197/30 "2019-05-20T18:36:56Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > OMG dude, this is too funny. Seriously, are you so literal that you didn’t recognize your own initials when I used them _immediately_ following your post complaining that I truncated another users name? Can you not recognize a simple joke? Do you not know how conversations work? Are you so thin-skinned that you have to take every comment made and turn it deeply personal? > > Wait… don’t answer that last one. It’s already answered. I’m not playing that game. Sorry. And yes, I’ve admitted I didn’t recognize the initials you used. I honestly didn’t realize I had to. You even quoted the evidence that I misunderstood when I said > [@](#): > > I’m not sure who **the** DP is I clearly was thinking it was a title like OP not some initials. Not sure why this upsets you so much. I mean, I’m being perfectly reasonable and you make an emotional outburst like this. Are you seriously taking this shit seriously? I mean, I can say whatever you want me to say if it’ll calm you down. I’d hate you to burst a blood vessel or anything. Seriously, what do you want me to say to make you feel better. I don’t mind really. It’s just words on a screen. ---
**Author:** ![Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disgruntled_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicks-ate-and-other-epic-games-apologists-a-word-please/834197/31 "2019-05-20T18:38:08Z")
> [@naita](#): > > Now that! was mildly funny. Forget that, JohnT thinks I’m too funny. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicks-ate-and-other-epic-games-apologists-a-word-please/834197/32 "2019-05-20T18:42:13Z")
This is a strong contender for the 2019 **Oh, no, you Pitn’t!** award, dedicated to Pit threads which didn’t go as the OP desired. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disgruntled_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicks-ate-and-other-epic-games-apologists-a-word-please/834197/33 "2019-05-20T18:48:13Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > This is a strong contender for the 2019 **Oh, no, you Pitn’t!** award, dedicated to Pit threads which didn’t go as the OP desired. 😉 Actually, post two was exactly what I wanted. Everything else has been fun but you’re taking it far far too seriously. So far, you are the only one in this thread who seems to believe that I am the least bit upset with how this thread ended up. Just you and frankly this post just looks like begging for support amiright? Come on guys, look at his posts. His Pit thread went wrong amiright? He’s all upset it’s open amirtight? Guys. Uh Guys Imright right? ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicks-ate-and-other-epic-games-apologists-a-word-please/834197/34 "2019-05-20T19:02:27Z")
> [@Disgruntled\_Penguin](#): > > I’m not sure who the DP is but I certainly am not taking anything personally. … as subsequent posts have shown, the OP, DP, isn’t taking this personally. At ALL. ---
**Author:** ![Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disgruntled_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicks-ate-and-other-epic-games-apologists-a-word-please/834197/35 "2019-05-20T19:09:26Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > … as subsequent posts have shown, the OP, DP, isn’t taking this personally. At ALL. Still waiting for your first poster agreeing with you I see. Can’t you find one person who is willing to take the same position. You don’t have someone you can PM or something? Talk about making mountains out of molehills. This is literally about me making a mistake that I freely admitted after it was explained to me. JEEZ I’M FREAKING OUT OF CONTROL HERE isJohnTright? To paraphrase genius: Is there someone else out there I can talk to? ---
**Author:** ![Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disgruntled_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicks-ate-and-other-epic-games-apologists-a-word-please/834197/36 "2019-05-20T19:20:40Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > … as subsequent posts have shown, the OP, DP, isn’t taking this personally. At ALL. For clarity lets put in the part of the post you’re ignoring. > [@](#): > > As for me wanting attention I admitted in **my** DP ( I guess ) that I’d get far more attention in THE GAME ROOM and why I posted it here. So unless I was playing some twisted long game it’s clear that I was simply mistaken and my answer to what happened was sincere and yet you won’t let it go and I’m the one who is is taking this personal. I mean, I’d have a right to but I feel I’ve been pretty civil considering. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicks-ate-and-other-epic-games-apologists-a-word-please/834197/37 "2019-05-20T19:27:48Z")
Wow, you weren’t kidding about the “disgruntled.” ---
**Author:** ![Teuton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teuton/32/3864_2.png) [@Teuton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teuton)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicks-ate-and-other-epic-games-apologists-a-word-please/834197/38 "2019-05-20T19:28:27Z")
If we’re keeping score, I’m with the DP in this little spat. ---
**Author:** ![Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disgruntled_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicks-ate-and-other-epic-games-apologists-a-word-please/834197/39 "2019-05-20T19:32:31Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Wow, you weren’t kidding about the “disgruntled.” 😃 Can you blame me? From the last line of my DP > [@](#): > > Plus, no one could flame me and tell me how much of a bad person I am for holding this opinion in that forum. I was expecting this and I get Johnt. Letdown. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicks-ate-and-other-epic-games-apologists-a-word-please/834197/40 "2019-05-20T19:38:35Z")
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