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Can I? Thanks. You and Damian aren't totally without your commonalities.

All I'm saying is you don't have to be an asshole 100% of the time just because you're convinced that everyone else is, or because it's easier or more enjoyable in the moment, or because you've got a bigger ego and smaller self-esteem than everyone else in the room. You can hit an easy 50% without compromising yourself or your opinions and get a lot further with whatever you're trying to achieve.

If I could learn that lesson, I truly believe anyone can.

I see. Repetition is necessary:

I know precisely how I sound.

I'm not out of touch.

This is something I am choosing to be.

Unlike the morons on that post, I'm not doing this to feel better. I'm not doing this because I think screaming at someone will make them understand it. I'm not doing it because I think modulating myself won't do a single thing. I know it won't, but that's not it, either.

Don't speak to me as if I have a lesson to learn. I don't. I'm simply disregarding it because that serves me better now.

And if I change in the future, I will do it on my terms.

[ He'd ignored it the first time but there comes a point when this is none of your business is a firm and irrefutable fact. Akechi isn't interested in changing and has made it profoundly clear that Stephen has no place telling him to. He's right. ]

OK.

I was beginning to doubt your reading comprehension.

Fortunately that's never been a problem of mine.

[ Selective attention, on the other hand ]

Are you not exhausted?

[ Just a question this time, not as loaded. Is it just youthful stamina that's allowing him to fling all these messages around despite little to no profit? ]