be nice.

"nice" isn't a good word. it wasn't meant to be, not in shakespeare's time, and i daresay not when it was thought up. neither now, wouldn't be too bad an idea either.

nice is a word you use to describe someone you don't know. it's a word for a stranger that can pass off as an acquaintance. it's a word you write on cards when you don't have any anecdotes to put down. it's a neutral word with positive connotations and a whole different implication underneath. "what's she like?"

"she's a nice girl."

nice what. nice how. nice she can suck up? nice she can act? nice she's so nondescript there isn't any nicer adjective to describe her.

i'm nice, people say.

people mean, i suck.

so most people don't get that meaning. so most people don't think. so most people are inane enough to take niceness as an acceptable (i'm not even saying commendable) exterior.

or maybe it's idealism. don't ask me.

never mind that i'm advocating niceness. "that wasn't very nice..." to initiate peace. "be nice? :)" as an answer to a stupid question.

i want to say to them. niceness isn't an attitude. isn't an action. isn't a mode you switch to just because you want the rewards for it. it's a way of life.

it's not niceness, per se. it's a side effect of goodness, of morality, of just being bloody human. so say my standard of what it is to be human isn't reasonable. to me, that's what it is. a lesser manifestation of all those things.

nice isn't buying an inventory full of newcomer maps, or making iron meds and distributing them. we've got a word for it here. that word's extra. it's called, condemming that person, and every other person who has the misfortune to meet them and dare to have a combat level higher than their own, by instilling in them the value that begging's right.

nice isn't dispensing useless advice to choobs of high-leveled players who aren't going to insult intelligence they think you have by telling you otherwise. read the knowledge base if you don't know anything. google it. what is wrong is your laziness, not anything about the game, not by far.

don't give me that crap called cynicism, because i'm not buying it. being realistic is one thing. faith is another all together. they can co-exist. they do. suck on th at.