usually “i feel sorry for you” is meant to instill a petty air of superiority
but when i play league, sometimes i play with people who are so committed to winning that i feel really bad for them
i wouldn’t actually say “i feel sorry for you” but there is no way someone starts typing a flurry of slurs in the chat inbetween deaths and is level 32417 or whatever is having a good life
in a world of feeling facetious pity to angry men online, it feels rare to feel completely and thoroughly genuine pity. if the angry person is particularly horrible, perhaps the same malice that accompanies facetious pity is there with the sincere pity
twovests OP wrote
it’s like one time i got the last strawberry milk in elementary school (i don’t know why, i liked chocolate or normal milk) and then a minute later on in the line a kid started sobbing and asked “does anyone have a strawberry milk? please?”
it was kind of a scene and i just took my tray and walked to a table where my friends. thinking back on this, i wish i wasn’t too shy to trade milk with that kid
like, did that kid have so much going on that strawberry milk was the last straw? if so that’s sad
or maybe the most important thing to that kid was strawberry milk? like it’s enough to break the sob threshhold? that’s sad too