I doubt anything will happen. If someone gave me their address in a situation like this I would assume it to be either fake or someone else's address. As a result I wouldn't even bother checking it out.
*nod* Someone else mentioned that. I think you're probably right. Even if he was in Seattle it's a long drive to find out you've been had.
Well, that ego driven character flaw isn't going to help you (no offence meant). Your lifetime of training hasn't taught you much then. In the public life there is more than gun and hand to hand battles. So I'm sure it's great to have some military training, but I can tell you that it won't help you on the streets. Though in all honesty you DO come off as a ex-military badass who thinks physical confrontation will solve everything. As for a lifetime how many years do you have behind you? If you're under 40 years old then you havn't even begun a "lifetime".
Trail? If you put 15minutes of thought into annoying someone there will be no trail. Phone cards or coins used on pay phones and aliases will hardly be traceable. Signing you up for loads of junk mail on public internet access or proxies won't be very traceable. Phone calls put into marketing companies on a pay phone won't be very traceable. There are so many ways to easily evade the law enforcement community with hardly any effort.
Now I'm not saying this person will do this, or will be smart enough to do this. Though I for one can have a very evil set mind and could easily make your life hell for a few months. No matter which way you cut it and no matter how you defend it you made a incredibly moronic choice driven by nothing but ego and ego driven morals. That's not necessarily a bad thing in all situations, but as for this you just potentially screwed the pooch.
Beleive me, I'm not arguing with you about the decision. It's something I have to seriously rethink for the future.
As to my physical confrontation, it hasn't happened outside of work in a long, LONG time. I truly HATE conflict. As an INFP it's sort of an innate personality trait. God's great joke was to make me good at it though. One reason I was so popular in security was because I could de-escalate so many situations without having to go hands-on. The other reason was that I was always willing to go hands-on if necessary. In my experience the more willing you are to fight, the less often you actually have to. It may sound bizarre, but it's worked for me since high school.
You'll never find anyone more interested in avoiding a fight where possible. I just have a different definition of what 'possible' means.
ElMonoDelMar
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ElMonoDelMar
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There comes a point where being too honest about yourself just makes you sound cocky. You may have passed that point a few pages ago.
Cuda1447
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Wow, OP. You really are a badass aren't you? Tell me, do you really believe you are the most aware/athletic best fighting super ninja in the world? Cause if not how can you be 100% certain that this guy could not take you?
When people talk mad trash and they know NOTHING about you its a dead give away that they are an idiot. If you are saying you could for sure take this guy, you are a moron. You have no fvcking idea. You've never met him. You know nothing about him. How can you be so sure?
When people talk mad trash and they know NOTHING about you its a dead give away that they are an idiot. If you are saying you could for sure take this guy, you are a moron. You have no fvcking idea. You've never met him. You know nothing about him. How can you be so sure?
You're an idoit.
If he's looney and has nothing to lose what makes you think he won't snipe you from his car window.
Stab you in the back and poke your kidneys like pillsbury doh boy.
You may think your big and bad but when it comes down to it. Just about anyone can end you... And me for that matter.
You're never safe. Best to avoid the situation. Unless you wanna be on the news. Assuming your life was worth putting on the news...
ElMonoDelMar
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The cheater could be a suicide bomber. I don't think you'd have much of a chance against one of those.
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*shrug* It's not a matter of certainty, it's a matter of probability and experience. I haven't experienced anyone being able to take me in a long time, therefore my natural dispostion is one of confidence. Obviously people CAN take me, the question is, will this guy (or will he even try). Again, I'm not talking trash, I just said that my natural inclination is to worry about having to get into a fight, and not to worry about myself getting hurt. That's not ego per se, just personality.
HardcoreRobot
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I usually have nothing but contempt for e-thugs, but PrinceofWands just doesn't seem to be exuding e-thugness to me. I mean, I take into consideration not only this thread but the posts he generally makes. He seems straightforward and honest. I think there's quite a bit of knee-jerking going on in this thread, even if what he originally did was sort of stupid.
seriously dude it was probably a 13 year old. But if it was some crazed psycho, he might kill you through your window with a gun. Something to ponder. I mean... we get all this antispyware and everything to keep out identity secret, why do you give it out?
Cuda1447
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When you say with such certainty you can take someone whom you know next to nothing about, thats ego... nothing else. I am a fairly decent fighter, Im more of a scrapper and used to wrestle in highschool. Im a somewhat small guy though, so naturally people underestimate me. I find it hillarious when people say I better sit down or do this or do that (usually jokingly, but half serious) when they really have no clue how good of a fighter I may be. Chances are most of those people would be easy for me to take down, simply because of my background in wrestling. However, for me to say that I could take anyone of them when I know nothing about their fighting is arrogant and stupid. Ya, I have more experience than a lot of people in that sort of thing, but there are certainly an assload of poeple that could take me as well. If I know nothing about them then I cannot say with any certainty whatsoever that I can take them. And they cannot about me either. Unless we actually know something more than each others name.
Don Vito Corleone
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Your words are belied by your actions. In this case you invited a fight with a total stranger over a friggin' video game, hardly the hallmark of a quietly confident tough guy. I never did that even when I was 10.
Like I said earlier, I'm just not wired that way. That's the best answer I can give. My reaction is to go face-to-face, so that's what I project into others - even though I know it isn't true. Once awareness sets in that people may not act honorably, I beat myself up over it, get hyper-sensitive for a while, then somehow it fades and I end up doing it again (though usually in a slightly different manner).
*shrug*
You're right, some people really can fight better than others. These people typically have less to worry about in any given physical confrontation. Of course we can't be sure that you're one of those people without you flying all over the world to personally kick our asses. I'm going to leave all the other way he can fvck with you using your address alone, as they've been outlined pretty clearly.
Food for thought. You're (presumably) an ex-military badass who plays america's army. Thus there's precedent for ex-military badasses playing america's army.
I'm totally with you, really. Again, it's a matter of experience and probability. Given the amount of situations I've been involved in, and how they turned out, my brain has just sorta changed. When I started in security I hadn't been in many fights, and it was mostly cockiness. That changed in the first year or two though. Now I feel confident, not cocky. One thing that hasn't sunk in yet is age. Last time I fought I was much younger, so that will definitely figure in. But until I actually experience it as a problem, I don't know if I can make my brain accept it.
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