How vindictive are you?

[Therumancer]

Having or showing a strong or unreasoning desire for revenge.
synonyms:vengeful, out for revenge, revengeful, avenging, unforgiving, grudge-bearing, resentful, ill-disposed, implacable, unrelenting, acrimonious, bitter

I am extremely sometimes. If someone pisses me off in any way I will go out of my way to get them back even worse.
I feel I need to ruin their day.

Not very, you need to do something beyond the pale to wind up on my "list" so to speak. "Thick skinned" could have at one time been considered part of my job description. Of course when it comes to those rare exceptions... well, I can hold a grudge for a long time, to the point where it's almost dwarven.

 

[Saulkar]

Overtly. One of the greatest components of forgiveness is forgetting, yet, I cannot. Whenever I talk to or meet someone who has spited me in the past, all I can remember is everything I feel they have ever done to wrong me or cause me grief. I power through it as hard as I can for I, in my heart of hearts, have no desire to harbour these feelings and wish to remain on amicable terms if not retain true friendship, but as near as I can figure, I can never forgive and there is always that desire to get even.

This is easily one of the greatest flaws in my personality, however, I must be doing OK because no one else seems to notice, even with the people I share this knowledge.

 

[Zhukov]

Not much at all really.

I'm don't forgive all that easily, but I do forget quickly.

Unless I'm being constantly reminded to hate someone, chances are I'll just forget to do it after a while.

 

[Chris Tian]

You should see some of the arguments I have occasionally had on here. I once talked myself in circles and the guy told me I had just agreed with him halfway through my one post without me realising it. I think it was on whether scanned manga online is piracy and I went from no to maybe to yes but not particularly harmful piracy. I type out my entire thought process as I go along you see.

I might have been lucky so far as I have yet to meet anyone manipulative enough to go out of his way to play on my nature.

As for goals I had to quit my hand at nursing barely a month in when I was 17/18 because it kind of ended up giving me bit of a mental breakdown. There is such a thing as too much empathy, I could not detach myself from any patients I was with. God knows what I would have been like if any of them died on me.

I can totally understand, that you are not able to be in a profession where you get in contact with lots of suffering people. My brothers girlfriend is a nurse and patients dying on you just comes with the territory there.

 

[Fdzzaigl]

Not much so, unless someone keeps repeating the same mistakes or keeps pissing me off over and over. I won't take revenge then, but simply aim to change their behaviour in whatever way possible.

I rarely get really mad to the point of retaliation. Usually when that happens it's because someone is doing an extremely unrighteous thing toward me or others (aka: beating someone up with a group of others, straight out bullying, trying to project their own mistakes on others). In that case I react in the situation itself and with all the force I can muster, but won't pursue revenge afterwards.

 

[Vault101]

Fallout: New Vegas even uses revenge as practically your sole motivation to get to Vegas and i've already forgiven him about 10 minutes into the game. It was just business remember? You didn't even die too.

wow....you ARE forgiving

I mean I let Benny live, but I would never be able to let something go even if it was "just business"

 

[BarkBarker]

Depends on my mood, I just got off a 30+ hour Tales game of goody two shoes and I was titchy as all hell, ripe for poking. I jump to infamous 2 and go evil route for a change of scenery, and the MOMENT someone chucks a rock I chuck a hurricane in their direction and decimate a street. I Also find myself in games where you can be really mean for a extended amount of time to be a joy, should someone nudge me in the street I'll pick them up, climb to the top of the highest building and FUCKING BRING THEM TO FUCKING EARTH!....so yeah I can be very vindictive.

 

[smithy_2045]

I'm a vindictive asshole, but way too lazy to do anything about resolving those vindictive feelings.

 

[Salus]

My revenge is to just completely disconnect, that's as far as most of my revenges go. If I have some form of relationship with you and you seriously piss me off, do not ever underestimate my ability to just walk away and forget about you COMPLETELY. I still file it under revenge because it's not just "moving on," it's like AGGRESSIVE moving on. If I get angry enough, I can drop insane amounts of time invested in a person, project, etc. and just never speak to them again. It's literally pulling the plug, even if it creates a chaotic sh**storm on their end, I'm just not there anymore.

Anyway, nothing has helped me with grudges more than this:

 

[Little Woodsman]

I'm amazingly lacking in vindictiveness. Just the other day someone did something incredibly insulting to me, and I chose to spin it in to "She knew about my dermatitis, and was doing it to protect me."

 

[Pink Gregory]

Someone being a **** isn't ever really erased by vindication.

Because I'll still remember it. Hell I get het up about things that people say here, people that I will never meet, I can ignore and I ultimately don't care about and have very little consequence. But I don't like to see unwarranted arrogance, obnoxious pushing of ideologies or people stating the obvious and being very proud of it, among other things.

So I guess not. They already won when they opened their mouths.