How vindictive are you?

[Sean Hollyman]

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.

 

[Clowndoe]

I'm the complete opposite. I've thought about what I'd do if I had some really dirtbag serial killer in a dark room where no one would find him, and at the start I go to the obvious places like pulling out finger nails, and after a few moments I think "What's the point?" If I could, I wouldn't have Kim Jong-un shot, I'd have him get a job and make sure he sticks to it. If someone wants to rob me, then fine, they probably need whatever they took more then I do anyway. I've just always had a problem getting genuinely angry with people, and if I do I struggle to make sense out the whole "getting even then it'll be fine" sort of mentality. If they don't escalate things, I still don't feel better, and if they do then that's even worse.

 

[PainInTheAssInternet]

I own a mac. Not because I like Apple, but for the sole reason that a PC laptop pissed me off.

 

[Elfgore]

In video games, very much so. I've been playing Prototype 2 and if a soldier hits me with a missile and knocks me off my feet. I will hunt him down that little ***** and then eat him. Teaches him to mess with an apex predator.

In real life, not at all. Revenge just seems kinda pointless. I'm a pretty big fan of the saying "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." I'm rather laid back in real life, so it doesn't really eat at me if I don't get vengeance.

 

[ninja666]

Depends. If it's really worth it from my perspective, I can be one mean ************, but if it's just a minor offense, I often let it go.

 

[Hades]

I have the tendency to hold and nurture grudges. If someone gets on my wrong side it will be a long time until i start having positive thoughts about that person again and i will feel happy at hearing about their misfortune. I think that if i could get away with punching some of those people in the face i would have done so.

I do recognize its a flaw of mine and i'm not proud of it.

 

[DementedSheep]

I don't think I've ever really tried to get revenge on anybody or get them for something outside of the actual moment when they did it so I guess not much? I can be hot headed at the time but I don't continue later. Even long term bullies once they stop, fine whatever I don't care. I've accepted apologies from some before.
If someone actually ruined my life I might feel different I guess but for the most part I don't see the point in revenge. That's not to say I'm a pacifist because I'm not but if I do something I'm motivated more by stopping the problem than vengeance. Just fucking them up without solving anything is a waste of my time. I don't revenge kill in multi-player games either.

 

[Frothy Gibblets]

It depends on what the "offence" against me is. I've had people dislike me or be uncomfortable with me seemingly just for existing for so long that for the most part things just brush off my back now. I accept that for the most part people are who they are and to seek revenge for the little things makes me little better than them.

At the other extreme, there are certain lines. Fortunately I haven't been in a position where those lines have been crossed yet but I'm certain all the logical reasoning in the world would not stop me from being almost biblical on whoever crossed them.

Here's a though regarding those like myself who don't sweat the small stuff so much. Does that make us weak, that we can be walked on or insulted to a degree and not seek some form of compensation? Or does it make us secure enough in ourselves that we don't need to beat our chests at every perceived slight? Maybe it's a mixture, maybe it's neither of the above, maybe it's different for each individual. Just a thought that came to me as I was typing this out, the perception of others.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

I am too lazy to be vindictive. Well, I'm being a little harsh on myself- I'm too laid back, I'm just not very bothered by things. When I was a kid I was very stubborn and held a lot of grudges, but I've grown up, had a few really shitty things happen to me, and now these petty things just seem really insignificant. Holding onto a grudge is hard, it takes serious mental effort for me to keep one up for very long.

It sounds incredibly stupid to my cynical mind, but you're just bringing more hate into the world and that's pretty un-Dude. I thoroughly believe that the world would be a much better place if people were a bit more fucking chilled and forgiving, not out of anything to do with love, but because it's just a damned load more practical. Vindictiveness doesn't erase the original problem, it just draws it out for far longer than it needs to be. Getting 'even' doesn't make the slightest bit of fucking difference to your life, it just makes their life worse. I find the idea of getting joy out of that pretty sick to be honest.

 

[TheNewGuy]

If I could, I wouldn't have Kim Jong-un shot, I'd have him get a job and make sure he sticks to it.

Kim Jong-un has a job, and he's been sticking to it quite adamantly! That's one of the problems we have with him really.

Ad for me, it really depends on my mood how vindictive I am. Sometimes I feel vindictive, other times I don't. Of course either way, I've never carried out any of my vindictive feelings.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Sometimes I feel like it but in the end I'm either too lazy to carry it through or too disinterested on the subject.

 

[Aramis Night]

You will know that I have forgiven all those who have wronged me when the event that scientists describe as the "heat death of the universe" occurs. The final act of entropy will be that of my rage and anger long after all else is no more.

 

[MysticSlayer]

I'm not particularly vindictive. I've even started getting to the point where I would say that I'm often baffled at just how vindictive people can be. I just don't find the idea of getting revenge or seeing misfortune on someone who's wronged me to be pleasing or justifiable. Well, that isn't to say I wouldn't want to see some justice if someone committed a serious crime against me, but I'd hope that I'm wishing it so they don't hurt anyone else seriously, not because seeing them suffer would be the only way for me to have peace of mind.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I'm somewhat low on vindictive. The past manager was a ***** to everyone and I am content that she is permamently stuck at the store she was forced to transfered in (much of the staff over there dismay). Granted I would loved to heard the news that she got sacked since everyone that she cause misery to (and the higher up knows she is an incompatible) agreed that she should be sacked too.

Granted I suppose the only time that I do feel more vengeful/ cold toward are the former "friends" I made back in High School (they were the only people I hang around with and yet they made fun of me everyday) however I kind of find peace that I intentionally lost contact with them. Well it's more like I refuse to keep in touch with them on Facebook (refuse friend request) and I never told them of my new phone number and aswell blocking them on messager.
In saying so I can imagine it will be a different story if I ever seen them again face to face but I find the odds of that happening to be slim (the little bits of info of them on Facebook indicate that they all moved futher away from where I am so I doubt I will see them again especially when I had not once set foot in the old town I used to lived with them).
Sure it sound like I'm running away from them abit but I think it's the best out of everyone interest to keep it like that.

 

[viscomica]

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.

For me, the best revenge is living well. As in, you literally don't have to do anything, just show your changed self to people who wronged you and wonder if they are thinking "duuuude, that totally shy girl we were mean to in high school is now on her way to becoming a succesful lawyer and has a job and meanwhile, I'm stuck at a dead end"
Of course, I'm just saying this because I'm waaaaaaaaay too lazy for an actual revenge.

 

[lacktheknack]

Increasingly while I'm on this site.

The opposite of it everywhere else. I'll bend over backwards to get people to not be mad at me.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

No, and I'm the opposite. I will go out of my way to make someone not mad at me.

It always amazes me how someone people think that it's okay to go after someone for something. I don't get the point of it all to be honest. :/

That said...

I own a mac. Not because I like Apple, but for the sole reason that a PC laptop pissed me off.

Hey, me too!

Well, that and a Microsoft update crashed my computer and erased everything. Totally not bitter or anything. >.>

 

[Zeraki]

Not very, I don't possess the energy reserves required for sustained amounts of anger. I barely have enough energy to pull myself out of bed in the morning, never mind plotting revenge on someone.

There is only one person I know who really makes me feel close to vindictive, and I'd rather not talk about that here.

 

[FPLOON]

I have such a vindictus personality to the point that I don't even PLAY that game!
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*awkward cough*

OT: Not as much as I used to... I mean, if this was about 15 years ago, then I would be almost super vindictive... But, as of now, not really...

I have a positivity complex!

 

[Vault101]

the worst thing I have ever done is make my dad a regular coffe rather than a decaf like he requested because he pissed me off for some reason

I don't think I'm vindictive...I'll fume about people but rareley do I feel compelled to do things to them..

EDIT: its not exactly a good rait to have eather...it disturbes me that somewhere out there somone might take pleasure at my failures