A Truth About The Internet.

[That_Sneaky_Camper]

- Sturgeon's Law where 90% of everything is crap and the remaining 10% is great seems fairly constant.

- Greater Internet Fuckward Theory where people are asshole just because they can get away with it over the anonymity of the Internet.

- Rule 34, if it exists there is porn of it. No exceptions. This can be both a blessing and a curse depending on the subject matter.

- Godwin's Law, the longer a controversial topic goes on the more likely people will get emotional and will call someone a demeaning name like comparisons to Hitler.

 

[lacktheknack]

I learned that humanity is beyond all redemption

Thank you Escapist forums!

On this note, I've learned that people have no perspective.

Or tact.

 

[lacktheknack]

Rule 34 has absolutely no exceptions. None at all, whatsoever.

Pie charts

http://community.devexpress.com/blogs/bryan/Pie-Chart-WinForms-Boys-vs-Girls_66665856.png

Now, just apply a dirtier part of your imagination.

 

[octafish]

That a lot of people really don't know how to use apostrophes, and that the sum of human knowledge really is broad but shallow.

Oh and you are never the only one.

 

[Vhite]

Salvador Dali would love it, Picasso would regret saying "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.", I have seen things of that sole existence cannot be answered, only questioned.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

There are a lot of people willing to do good for others and share information, just for the sake of it.

Amen brother!

OT: Everything you know is wrong. Seriously. Everything you know is wrong.

...that is the point of view of some people you encounter will have. You'll just have to learn to deal with that.

 

[Koshok]

5) If you click the first non-italicised link on Wikipedia, and repeat, you will reach philosophy

I just tried this and I am shocked how often this works. The only exception I found is Biology.

 

[SD-Fiend]

apparently if you use the word logic you are smarter than everyone and right about everything without proof.

also rule 34 is evil

 

[arnoldthebird]

That you can not and never will be able to reason with a fan boy...

 

[The Thinker]

He who claims it, names it.

For instance, you know the ol' "If I'm going to constantly stare at ass in this game, it might as well be a sexy one"?

It's now called "Thinker's Corollary"

I leave you to imagine what proof it is a corollary *of*.

 

[RatRace123]

There is virtually no difference between someone who loves something and someone who absolutely despises it.

 

[Guffe]

That if I'm bored, I always have youtube...... and the Escapist.

:3

Got to add Cracked to that list too.
So yeah, my answer to the topic is quoted post + cracked.

 

[Ziame]

no matter what you say, someone will tell you that it's offensive...*****.

 

[Vault101]

The fact that every person is unique and recognisable is a hamper on most people's personalities and wants. Everyone has two or more faces. The one(s) they show to the people they meet, and the one on the inside, the real them. Some People would love to tell everyone they real opinions, but they fear that there would be no positive social outcome. But, once you are anonymous, you can say and do what ever you please without fear of any retribution effecting you.

The Internet helped me realise that there are very few "good" people. People think terrible thoughts and are only halted from committing terrible deeds in the fact that society would recognise them and they could never escape that. "Slaves would be tyrants, given the chance." But, most people don't have hearts of coal. It's just tarnished, some more than others.

I've accepted that greed, hate and envy is as integral to the construction of a human as charity, comradeship and acceptance are.

Thanks Internet!

now hold on just a second

there is no "one real side" of us, "what we are" is a combination of everything, actions thorughts and such

kind of like saying when somone is drunk its the "real" them (because of no inhbitions) is bullshit

peopel are complex we are both our good and bad sides, also Id wager that most trolls are dumbass teenagers sinc I cant imagine anyone else finding that funny

 

[Little2Raph]

To combine Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell and one of the sayings on my Murphy's Law poster:
The net is vast and infinite . . . and 90% of it is crud.

 

[Sacman]

There are things that even I find difficult to masturbate to.

I find your post difficult to masturbate to...<.<

Yay memes!

OT: That the internet is much more than an advanced form of telecommunications and has, since the realization that the collective minds of all who participate shape the function of the internet, become a form of culture in and of it's self separate from the traditional forms of western culture which created and influenced it...<.<

 

[Random Fella]

That some people are different to me and don't share my opinion
What's up with that?

 

[The Thinker]

Id wager that most trolls are dumbass teenagers sinc I cant imagine anyone else finding that funny

What about dumbass... dumbasses?

 

[somonels]

The internet is fail.
Learned that on the internet.

 

[SmegInThePants]

that the internet is the best way to make info available to people since the invention of libraries/newspapers, and so far is less susceptible to censorship (who knows how long that will last)