Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20140801004849/@comment-14909251-20140804051215

Shadow at Morning wrote: Stop that... thing. Please. Points well taken, though. I have a similar thing, to which I react negatively, simply because it's gotten old, predictable, and tiresome.

... I just got it. Your meta is brilliant. Well played. Huh, I wasn't really intending to illustrate a point about the thing in that manner as I just enjoyed saying "thing" a lot, but it appears I illustrated the potential damage of thingness anyway. Guess that proves how easy is to let a thing get out of control. Now imagine if the thing were routinely insulting you for no apparent reason and there were multiple people taking part in the thing, including people you barely know who just recently learned of the thing. Suffice to say, the thing would not only get very old, very quickly, but also become deeply distressing once it is clear there is no way to stop it from happening.