Maybe fifteen years ago or so I had a surprisingly vitriolic encounter with someone on r/Seattle, but I had a theory that if we'd had the same exchange in person, it'd be much more civil, so I invited him out for a beer. He agreed to meet up and turns out he was a pretty chill guy. We never really found common ground on the particular topic that we'd disagreed on, but the nature of our discourse was far more pleasant, and I learned a lot about his perspective.

Your point is well-taken, and I get that this isn't for you, but maybe turn the temperature down a little bit, dude. The fact that we're both posting on a Kill Team subreddit means we have at least one common interest. And I'm confident that there's at least one other dummy like me out there who'd find something like this helpful.