Salt of the Earth

Not too long ago I tried some Smoked Ghost pepper salt for fun. Here's a video of my salty reaction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfhS2rszJxY

Anyway, this post will largely cover salt producers in social situations, such as social media or in real life.

One thing that really grinds my salt is when people mumble and then say "Never mind" when you ask them what they said. Because now you actually want to know what they said and they won't tell you. My friends and I call this "baiting". The person baits you into the conversation, reels you in, and then stops mid way. 

Or when they mumble, you ask them to repeat what they said, and they continue to mumble. Which means you have to act like you understood them otherwise they'll get self conscious and say "Never mind", but acting like you understood them when you really didn't also irritates me, so there really is no way to win. Sure, you could continue to ask them to repeat themselves over and over, but that becomes necessarily embarrassing. Surely some of you guys are guilty of baiting and/or have been baited.

This can happen over social media as well. When I say social media, I largely mean messaging apps like messenger, kik, iMessage, etc. One of my friends in particular is quite guilty of baiting. In fact, they probably get a kick out of baiting because they do it so much. I would say their quite good baiting, even a master at baiting, if you will. Anyway, here's an example of baiting over social media:

Friend: The craziest thing just happened!

Me: What is it

Friend: What never mind, I can't tell you

Me: Why not

Friend: It's a secret

Throw in a couple of emoji's and you have a prime example of baiting. You can probably tell why this gets annoying.

Does anyone else have these moments? I can't be the only one. If you have other examples of baiting causing salty moments feel free to let me know in the comments.

Thanks for reading.

Never Lucky

I'm trying to think of a name to call my readers. Maybe the salty spittoon? Assalt squad? Salty dogs? If you have any names let me know. 

DISCLAIMER: Okay, this post is gonna be about Hearthstone, which is a video game. If you don't like video games feel free to ignore this blog post. I'll try to make the next one more to a general audience.

Anyway, one of the largest sources of salty moments that I have had are from Hearthstone. "Hearthstone is a free-to-play digital strategy card game that anyone can enjoy. Players choose one of nine epic Warcraft heroes to play as, and then take turns playing cards from their customizable decks to cast potent spells, use heroic weapons or abilities, or summon powerful minions to crush their opponent." One thing the game doesn't speak of is the ridiculous amount of randomness (also known as RNG) in the game. For example, there are parts of the game that rely solely on random outcomes. They can be amazing, decent, or salt-inducing game-losing rage-causing outcomes. Most of the time, the randomness doesn't affect the game too much and nobody is terribly salty. But when I get that specific 1% chance outcome I was hoping to avoid, you can see why I would be mildly annoyed.

Some people say my salt isn't justified because it is just a game. Well, I am naturally competitive. So when I play a game I obviously want to win. And if that win is literally stolen from me because of a random outcome, I feel as though the salt is justified.

To put it in a better sense for those that don't play Hearthstone, imagine playing a sport. Football, basketball, volleyball, whatever. Now imagine you're absolutely demolishing the opponent. However, there is a new rule where the opponent can roll a dice. If they role a 6 they automatically win the game. If they don't you win. This may seem fine until you get a win stolen from you. And then the salt flows.

Of course, it's also a great feeling if you're the one getting the 1 in 6 and winning a game, but we ignore those cases because we can.

Sorry for the post that is directed at a specific audience. Just thought I would talk about a big salt producer in my life. Thanks for reading I guess.