No, here's the part that some of us are just mystified about
>be programmer
>get acquainted with someone who fucking loves attention and making people mad
>keep announcing to the world that attention guy pisses me off, sometimes years after the fact
>attention guy just keeps being super fucking annoying every time I tell the world he made me upset
Why can't I figure out an escape sequence for my loop bro?
Remember when Nool kept trying to help Chris after everyone told him he's a fucking retard that's not worth the effort? And how he gets mad when people challenge his preconceptions? A lot of his (public) relationships are him walking towards a rake, getting mad when warned about it, stepping on it, and getting mad that he got hit in the face. Dick, Ralph, PPP, Chris, with Rackets being the only cordial and/or professional public relation that's still amicable.
I try not to psychologize on site owners (besides Lowtax) and public figures like Null because 1. Everyone already does it, and 2. If I'm wrong, I look like a fool, but this is something I've thought for some time because it keeps reoccurring. In this situation, I think Null has the following problems:
1. He believes everyone works on the same principles that he believes in and was brought up in, and doesn't consider or believe in the character of others. He is often stumped, and sometimes angered, by the beliefs and actions of others if they don't align with his. Every time he has made a guess or prediction about a person, he was completely off the mark. He seems to think that everyone he personally knows has the same process as him, or act according to his logic, when they don't. He is not a people person for sure.
2. He is too trusting, and forgiving. He takes a lot of things in stride, when most people wouldn't. And because of the aforementioned, he thinks everyone is like this. And with this, I dare say, he might even have a soft spot for broken or down on their luck people. He wants to help them, and hopes that there is something worthwhile in them, but he wastes his efforts on bad people.
3. He has no filter. He constantly, and sometimes accidentally, makes off-color or downright rude remarks about people he knows. He thinks because he's constantly insulted, others have or should have thick skin like him. He's rude a lot of the time, and says very horrible things about what he dislikes with no regard for the opinions of others who otherwise have nothing against him, and who just happen to be in his crosshairs that day. Even when he doesn't mean it, he makes some very insensitive assumptions about people. I recall he once made a post where he assumed Rackets cut off their relationship just because he didn't speak to him in a while.
3. He's obstinate, and a contrarian. This has constantly led to a situation where he doesn't want to do what others tell him to do. This is a good thing when scum like the NZ government demands people's personal information. It isn't a good thing when people warn you about the company you keep.
Now, entering bad relationships is part of the human condition, and it's not a moral failing. Sometimes you get fooled or your feelings get the better of you. But to willingly overlook grave offenses is a major failing. The thing about "seething" and being "mad at the internet" hit the nail on the head about the terminally online's obsession with not getting owned, but I don't think that's why Null keeps entertaining these stupid shortbus IBS people. He gets mad when he's made fun of, but he doesn't make any effort to hide what makes him mad and he doesn't become conceited just because the internet etiquette demands to be aloof and ironic. Null keeps entertaining these idiots and getting mad when he steps on the rake because his obstinacy doesn't let him change his arcane thought process. This is the same guy who thought it would be "a fun thing to do" to start a contest with PPP and Ethan Ralph, two people that he already knew were abrasive and dishonest.
tl;dr programmers can't into relations
PS null: If you want to have your dream aryan family with a white wife and 2.5 children, you need to learn how to compromise. "Compromise is the essence of diplomacy, and diplomacy is the cornerstone of love."
Teach me to do math when I'm stoned.
