Idk about all the rest of it, but you might be able to learn to watch your tone. You know, modulate your voice better. Figure out what sounds aggressive and how to catch it, maybe apologize for it if appropriate, then consciously avoid it for a bit.
I think I’ve had a couple friends like you, and while there were a few things to tolerate with them (as I’m sure there were with me as well), the weirdly/slightly aggressive tone they had a bit too often made hanging out with them a little bit worse than it could’ve been.
Still happy to have spent the time I did with them. I’m still hanging out with one of them and he’s still aggressively into some games, TFT now, but he’s chilled out a bit it seems or I just notice it less. It comes back when he gets competitive or drunk.
Most of us know to expect this to stay another largely pointless, niche project with little broad impact.
We’re not hitting 100k MAU, we’re not improving the internet, we’re not dethroning reddit. We’re just existing alongside them, in their shadow, with a slow front page of largely mid nonsense that sticks around for a couple days, with several communities’ comments mostly coming from 1-5 “power”-users.
And people want it to stay that way.