Vent thread

@OptimusPrimevil  
Yeesh, when my home almost caught fire, I remember people trying to put it out.

@OptimusPrimevil
 
It’s not a new attitude I assure you, by-stander effect is a long standing staple. If cellphones had existed in the 30’s Ill bet you we’d have at least 10 pictures of people in top-hats smiling in front of the Hindenburg.

Because the time wasting thread is kinda busy, I decided to repost one comment here.
 
You know, MrEnter, buddy, pal, I like some of your videos, I think you need to grow much thicker skin. You should know that the worst way to deal with trolls is to give them more ammo, and by doing what gives them pleasure, which is to get angry at them, you are pretty much sending them the richest, most exquisite 8 course meal with ancient wine on a Sterling silver platter carried by the most exotic of supermodels. There is no black and white in this world, only gray and grey, nobody has it gravitating around them. All of us just stand on it, which stands on the solar system, which stands on the universe.
 
Yes, there is a stark difference between trolls and cyberbullies. trolls, by basic definition, create chaos with stupid or highly disagreeable acts for mere amusement. Some are even accidental, creating unintentional outrage by the sole sin of hinting something that makes an explosive reaction. Cyberbullies, on the other hand, do it solely to demean and terrorize. Also, trolls have their limits too. There will come to a time when they will regret it and it will always be too late. And those who don’t, will be hated by the former as equally as by the common man. By legislating anti-troll laws, it will only spawn another breed of douchebags who will abuse it by sicking the law onto people who simply disagree with them. I hate to sound nihilistic, but in this world, nothing can be truly purged. That’s why people say ‘Don’t feed the trolls’. As they say, if you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen.

@NotYourAverageLurker  
Oh gee, what’s my least favorite reviewer so far been getting into?

@NotYourAverageLurker  
The only way to truly stop assholes would be some sort of fundamental change in human nature, which would take generations at best.

@gasmaskangel  
You can’t kill intangibles, period. Enforcing a law on trolls is the absolute worst thing you could do, effectively castrating free speech.

@NotYourAverageLurker  
Indeed, which is why I claim the only way to do so is to completely alter human nature which is effectively impossible to do consciously, and even if it were possible to somehow identify the asshole gene and enforce a program of selective breeding to eliminate it (which would be an immensely unethical breach of human rights) it would take generations for the asshole gene, or more accurately asshole genes, to be eliminated.
 
What’s more I’m gonna go ahead and say that at some point in everyone’s life they are an asshole. Pretty much the only human who I would believe you if you said they were never an asshole to anyone is Mr. Rogers, and even then I am fully prepared to be disappointed.
 
Its not a conscious thing, its a result of the fact that as humans, which means creatures locked into our own perspective and consciousness, we are inherently solipsistic and therefore at the time at least we always believe ourselves justified in every action.
 
Of course most of us feel guilty once we have either had time to think about/have been confronted with our assholish behavior which is how we learn to not be assholes, but this is neither universal (some people can never believe they were in the wrong) or quick and so we can all expect over the course of our lives to have several moments where we look back and say “man, I was fucking asshole!”
 
In fact it is my belief that people need to fuck up and be assholes every now and then to really learn how to not be an asshole, a point of view which is not currently supported by anything other than my belief in it.
 
The important part is either realizing that you were an asshole with time or being called out for it.

@gasmaskangel  
Not to mention that branding all trolls as evil filth would only turn all of them against you. Also, why would it take a few annoying buttholes for him to conclude that there is evil around when there are already rapists, murderers and despots? First World Problems, it comes across. Trolls ain’t evil, just annoying and stupid at worst. The examples he had listed were not trolls, they’re straight up assholes.  
Also, the poem and the poet see,s very pretentiously wrist-cutty; right inbetween “Crawling” and “How could this happen to me”.  
Both comment sections are making me breaking down in anguish. Are there that many people who are so fragile that a fucking flash of light of text is enough for them to kill themselves?

I sigh alot.
 
It pisses off greatly people who are dangerously petty-minded.
 
The kind who will constantly call every habit you develop unbecoming, just to make you slightly more miserable.
 
Can you imagine being forbidden to sigh?
 
Or express anything resembling a negative emotion, only to then get weird, judging looks should you be caught in a good mood, which is faked or fleeting most of the time?
 
If these complaints seem petty in themselves, it’s because these little niggles build up fast when people are ded set on making your little world miserable.

@PonyPon
 
That would be the point that my sighs were replaced by “fuck off” to any little shit-for-brains troglodyte that couldn’t grasp the fact that there’s a range to human emotion outside of “mindless automaton”.

So I just saw this
 
It’s actually an article from about 7 months ago, but was updated recently. To sum it up, it’s an angry fat guy bitching about how Star Wars ruined Sci-fi, is remissed that many of the slower sci-fi books have never been made into movies, and just general complaining about the industry.
 
I hate this kind of attitude with a passion, and let me explain why. A lot of the books he mentions, and many of the slower, more thoughtful Sci-Fi works would be fucking ruined in movie form. Yea, there are a lot of books I’d love to see on the silver screen, but I know deep down that there is no fucking way they’d survive the transition. So, we get left with this impotent nerd-rage by people who think that movies, a predominately audio-visual media, has the “gall” to focus on visuals and sound.
 
Better yet, the little fucker has the nerve to use “space opera” as a derogatory term. If it isn’t some uber-deep, thought provoking piece of pseudo-intellectual tripe, than this guy hates it. Goddess forbid there be any “fun” or “amazment” or “wonder” in sci-fi, nope, needs to be dry, depressing bollocks that “speaks of the human condition. And really, space operas can’t address complex issues? What about Firefly (and by extension Serenity)? Fifth Element? Battlestar Galactica? Andromeda? Guardians of the Galaxy? Farscape? Stargate? Did none of these tackle big issues? Yes, Sci-fi can be used to hurdle a lot of big, intellectual topics. But it can also be about the grandeur of the universe. This is the kind of idiot that reads 1000 different meanings in an Andy Warhol piece with a “lol 2 deep 4 “ smirk, and spits on a Van Gogh for not being highbrow enough.
 
This guy even had the gall to say that The Matrix was the most original Sci-fi film in 25 years. Really? REALLY?
 
tl:dr version.
 
Idiots that think everything has to be “deep” and depressing piss me off. Even more so when these misguided idiots believe that their favorite thing could survive in movie form by the power of fucking fairy dust and fan-boi farts.

@Zincy  
Remember when this nerd shit was actually fun? Yeah, me neither but it feels like it should be about stuff that is fun, or that speaks to you in a unique way instead of the endless, endless streams of whining assholes all prepared to tell you why exactly this thing you like sucks and you, personally, are a terrible human being for liking it.

@Zincy  
Guess he’s never heard of Megazone 23.
 
He sounds like Clawshrimpy. (Except he isn’t nearly as hypocritical)

@gasmaskangel
 
It still is fun, for the rest of us. For the most part I tend to ignore the ragey mouth-breathers, this guys little piece just rubbed me wrong.
 
 
@trashboat
 
He reminds me of a lot of internet critics that seem to have forgotten what it means to have fun…granted if several of the folks around these parts are anything to go by, forgetting how to have fun is a pathogenic illness.

@Zincy  
I guess so.
 
Clawshrimpy is this guy who claims that all Sci-Fi has to be taken seriously and that everything that isn’t is “Anti-Thinking”
 
Which is stupid, Considering that He only talks about Mecha, And his favorite show is Gaogaigar. (Which is everything that He derides other mecha shows for)

@trashboat
 
Ah, let me guess, I bet he likes “hard sci-fi” too? Granted, I suppose if he’s an anime fan hard sci-fi isn’t exactly part&parcel.
 
Like I said, it’s these kind of idiots that made Warhol famous, and allowed an art piece that, I shit you not, was just a bunch of trash thrown on a desk to sell for 50K. Everything has to be fucking deep, philosophical dribble. It’s not for the sake of being enlightened mind you, it’s to give pompous ass-hats who enjoy that tripe a platform to stand on and declare the rest of lowly peons that their “2deep4u” masterworks are lost on.  

@Zincy
 
I actually made a parody of that one infamous Andy Warhol “work”.
 
…it was also a satire on Sonic recolors. All I did was screw with the color settings in photoshop and arrange the “tiles”; as you would imagine, it didn’t take long. In fact, it’s in the scraps folder; actually, I probably have five times as many “scraps” as presentable pieces.
 
…and even those aren’t all that great…

But wait. Once a girl hits puberty suddenly they ‘can’t’ hug boys anymore. Before then they would think nothing of it, but no! No, they’re a different gender! Oh the horror!
 
And you can’t have male friends anymore! Not without it being considered a relationship and most likely turning into one. Happens in all the movies.
 
 
What is wrong with people.

@luna the great!
 
Welcome to our stupidly sexually repressed culture that equates an eyelash movement with excess PDA. Remember, this is a good ol christian nation, we can’t be havin none of that there, “boy touching girl” nonsense.
 
In all seriousness, I’ll bet there are actually people who believe that it starts with a hug and ends with someone pregnant in the basement while strung-out on enough coke to give Charlie Sheen his sanity back.

@luna the great!  
Doesn’t happen in real life. At least not in my case.

@Zincy  
Yes, He believe that Sci-Fi Has to be Hard.
 
His favorite target is TTGL.

fuck your dnp BULLSHIT
 
(Excuse me. I hate to fall in love with a picture just to find it removed a few minutes later)

Tips for today’s Internet Op-ed Writer
 
 

@Marshal805
 
On the subject of idiocy, I’ve found myself increasingly pissed off at the scientifically illiterate. I’m not talking about your average Joe, not everyone needs to have college level scientific knowledge. No, I’m talking about the mouth breathing troglodytes that go out of their way to push false facts.
 
The fact that idiots like the Flat Earth Society and Young Earth creationists can exist in the modern age is nothing short of mind-boggling. I read an interesting bit of data about 2 years ago, I really wish I could find it again. It was a rather large online survey that sought to test the average American’s scientific knowledge, asking very basic questions like “What are the phases of water” and “ Does the Earth orbit the Sun”. Thankfully a majority of people got it right, but the fact that any percentage past .000000000000000000000000000000001 managed to get questions wrong is sheer insanity.
 
And of course you have the veritable army of online idiots supporting their paper-thin arguments with pseudoscientific goop one minute then misrepresenting established data the next. Bonus points if you quote-mine a random blurb from someone smarter than you and attempt to either justify your own incompetence or dismantle an opponents argument the same way one tries to bring down a castle wall with a fucking herring.

@Zincy  
Not to mention those damn Anti-vaxxers.