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Internet persona vs "Real life" persona

I agree with the losers who are saying being mean is fun. They're right. I love being mean to people as well. With lots of people I know, the meaner they are to a person, the closer they are to that person, because if they're close to that person, then they know where their limits are, and know what dickish behavior is OK and what is not. Being a dick is great when it's fun and games.

The thing about not being mean to strangers isn't anything about respecting them, it's just not wanting to make someone else feel bad. If you want to make it a selfish thing, then you can say you don't want to make them feel bad, because you've had dicks make fun of you or treat you as less than them, and you know how much it hurts. Most people just have something called empathy, and don't like seeing other people squirm unnecessarily. I guess the more detached from society the lesser the social skills a person has, and stereotypically atleast (although I think it's true a substantial amount of the time) people who spend lots of time on the internet are retarding their social skills a little bit by not building real social connections and learning about how to behave in the real world or anything.

Then, when these "internet people" get together on the internet with the same idea of "fuck everyone", they start patting each other on the bum thinking they're the top shit and eventually they'll pick up Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, then read the summary on Wikipedia because it was too long, and look down on people who can't take their objective analysis of the shittiness and weakness of people's character who can't stand the internet people's lack of social intelligence.

Then something happens to that "internet person". Let's say their sister has a miscarriage, and then he needs to let it out somewhere. Because, "WOW MAN!", this is now serious. This is about life now. This isn't just joking around, the the "internet people" decided it was for everyone up until that point. Now the "internet person" needs to unload his heart to the world and let people know that actually he suffers and that bitches never let him touch their boobs because they're too fucking stupid, and how all they want is acceptance but no one does because they'Re too stupid.

At this point the Captain Canuck (not me, the superhero, idiot. fucking think shit for brains) comes out of nowhere and tells everyone go to ride their bikes and pick up the garbage on the ground and put it in the trash, and all of a sudden people are cleaning their room, cooking their meals and going to the library where the construction workers are reading Shakespeare and the kids are looking at porn on the internet for the first time getting ready to become internet people. The "internet people" look. They know what's going to happen, and they're pleased. They're pleased the kid will pretend to read Ayn Rand and think he is a genius that is just misunderstood because words are an incapable method of communication. They hope that Captain Canuck won't come to them like Captain Canuck came to them (can't understand pronouns? Fuck.) and that they will live in ignorance and hell while the internet people plant flowers along the freeway while wanting to play Final Fantasy VIII on their PSP because they now live in Japan and it just came out, but they don't have enough to buy a new memory stick so they have space to download it.

FFVIII on PSN in Japan!

BAM!

I'm excited. Probably means it'll come to NA soon, so you should be excited too.

1.8 gigs, I'm gonna buy a big memory stick soon and then get it.

Internet persona vs "Real life" persona

I think the way I called you on your shit wasn't very nice of me, and I should've approached the situation with a little more tact.

For that I apologize.

Internet persona vs "Real life" persona

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On the other hand not censoring yourself and being "an asshole" may connect you to just the kind of people you want to connect with rather than the "shallow and polite" acquintances that can sometimes occur in that dreaded "real life".

So for some politeness is just that social construct used to hide our true selves :D


I couldn't disagree more. I'm polite to people, and I use tact when there's a touchy issue with them because sometimes topics are a little sensitive for people. I have topics sensitive dear to me, and others have their own. I don't think it's a bad thing having topics dear to you, it just shows that you have some time or emotions or whatever invested in something. To me that's actually a good thing. If I'm rude to someone, or ignore their feelings and wishes, I'm making them feel bad, sad, angry or whatever, and that's not something the "real me" wants to do. So if I have an opinion, I'm going to need to put it into words, and you could call any of those words a "social construct", whether they are rude or tactful.

Tact and being fake are very different. Having tact is being the real you, but not being an asshole.

Shallow and polite acquaintances are important in situations. Take work for example. You work with someone 40 hours a week, and their personality really grates you, and your personality yours. Should you be honest and keep on bugging that open wound, or should you be civil with one another. Should you realize that you both are going to be staying there, and you'll have to make the best of the situation and work with the other person despite not liking them. This is also not being fake, it's two people trying their best to make a situation better for everyone.

PSP - Why didn't I buy this earlier?

I was seriously thinking about buying one until I heard it has a shitty battery life, and that the joystick is uncomfortable to use.

Most underrated and overrated RPGs

Well this topic went all post-modern.

What am I left to hold onto?

So like, there is a new Final Fantasy DS game

I've experienced no lag in Dragon Quest IX. Or if you didn't make a typo, I'm not sure what you meant to say.

What are you currently reading?

Reading two more Murakami. Why is it the only thing I can read these days. There's only a few more books to read, and then I'm fucked.

On Afterdark right now. After the Quake, and his first two books are left.

Most underrated and overrated RPGs

I'm not sure what people who think Chrono Trigger is overrated were expecting.

I think the same reason why you dislike the story/writing is the the reason I like it, and dislike the stories in many new games. Different expectations and ideas of what makes a good game and whatnot.

What Shall I Do?

It seems like a non-issue. Sheesh isn't too negative. Saying someone has no chest hair isn't a bad thing. People can't always reply on time. Sure you're not over thinking things?

I should add that as a pet peeve, people who think anything on the internet shouldn't be taken seriously (who are coincidentally the same people who every now and then post a long serious post about how they're lonely and YOU CAN'T LAUGH IT'S SERIOUS).