The problem is the internet can put so many people together in the same place, every idiot is bound to find someone they think is an idiot, so to sarcastically quote Robert Earl Keen “the road goes on forever and the party never ends”

As someone who does this, I will say...
The preferred method of dealing with things for everyone isn’t bottling it up.
10 minutes of complaining outside of work to free myself of those thoughts is much preferable to carry the shittiness around all the time.

But I guess you’re just an emotionally superior being than the…

What an incredibly disingenuous reading of that comment.

I don’t understand why so many people think the choice between fun and trying is mutually exclusive.

I mean, just in basic terms...if I have better job...yes, I have to try harder at work...but I can also afford better vacations, more concerts, more nice…

The problem isn’t doing it one way, or the other...the problem is, everyone learns better differently.
If you learn better cooperatively...go for it.
I genuinely learn better with the solitary style. It allows me to be curious, and work at my own pace. It allows me to try what I’m doing.

There needs to be a mix, because…

I think you spelled your username wrong...It’s actually spelled ‘internet tuff guy”.

More importantly, you DO see intentional fouling as ‘defense’?

“even worse than the Lebron / Wade / Kobe “call the foul over a dirty look for the star players” era.”

What NBA era WASN’T like this? Granted I’ve only been watching since the late 80s...but I can’t remember an era in which phantom calls on star players wasn’t the norm.