Recent content by Glordag

In MMOs with the standard trinity model, I usually play a tank 1st, healer 2nd, and DPS last. In tabletop RPGs, I play characters that let me creatively utilize the game system as much as possible. I end up with characters like illusionists that dabble in alchemy. I'm not really sure how to...

I agree with a lot of this. I think I've noticed the differences in a few ways: I vs E: Seen as sort of a "level of energy" and "amount of going out" difference, but both can have very similar interests or ways of thinking. N vs S: Seen more in the types of interests or attraction towards...

Is it really fair to say that extroverts "literally cannot comprehend" these things? Just because they don't enjoy them doesn't mean they can't comprehend them. Don't know if that's true for all INTPs... I'm sure a "lot" of these great people are introverts, but I bet a "lot" are also...

Chess is a long time hobby of mine, and I was very much into it in high school. The chess community and chess books tend to describe tactics as "attacking themes" or "surprise moves" or "forced combinations." Strategy is, as you described, long term planning and positional improvement. Tactics...

Welcome! I work under the broad umbrella of IT myself, though it's more QA/software engineering/testing than design, programming, network admin, etc. Online tests are pretty wonky when it comes to identifying a type. The best way to really understand the types and how they relate to you is to...

I don't think that's unintentional, to be honest. Jung explicitly spelled out his ideas of introversion, extroversion, thinking, feeling, sensing, and intuiting, but didn't really touch on combining everything into one big pot. When MBTI and socionics attempt to do so, they need to kind of...

Right, that's certainly true. I think the dominant function becomes apparent in an introvert once you really do some analysis, but the exterior shell will still reflect the extroverted function, imo. As another anecdotal example, I find INFPs to be much closer to myself with outward personality...

I read through the thread you referenced, and I still think it's a little presumptuous to say that MBTI got it wrong. You have to remember that MBTI is supposed to be a method for typing people. As such, you have to rely on outwardly observable traits or behaviors. If I recall from my reading...

Just wanted to comment on this one part, in particular: You say that, yet you list "common traits and reactions" for INFPs as "nice and sympathizing." I've known a few INFPs, one of which was confirmed from the "actual" indicator test (not that I'm saying it's reliable, mind you), and they...

This was a joke, right? Please tell me this was a joke.

It gets me the ladies. Nothing drives a lady wild like dropping the letters INTP in your greeting.

I tried to participate in this exercise, but I discovered that I lack the requisite number of midi-chlorians to read auras ); . Good news: I can still be a sweet bounty hunter like Boba Fett!

If I need to be more outgoing while I'm out having fun, I just drink alcohol. At a certain level of intoxication, I'm the life of the party and everyone loves me. Pretty stark contrast from my normal existence, actually...too bad I seldom remember it well enough to know what happened :\ . I...

I would definitely take the percentage measures from some of the online tests with a grain of salt. As you can see from my signature, the one I took has me almost entirely I, but to many introverts I seem pretty extroverted. I'd be the first to admit that I tend to prefer human interaction a...

Yes, agreed completely. In fact, my most recent ordeal was with an INFP. On the plus side, it was a great learning experience all around. Emotional pain for knowledge gained. I'll take that as a win :D.