I'm starting to hate the internet
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Don't hate it but I get bored of it after awhile. I only frequent maybe 3 sites. Escapist, Tumblr and Facebook. Occasionally 4chan if I'm in the mood for that sort of thing. I wish I had a bunch of cool sites to visit but I never find any.
The internet is a tsunami of hatred, cynicism, and ignorance. There's no changing that, so why bother putting in the effort to hate it? You gotta learn to take the negatives and turn them into positives. Go with the flow, like the Bruce Lee of the internet.
As someone whose favorite games include Mass Effect 3, Diablo 3, and Skyrim, I know exactly how you feel, but its something you learn to live with, I just tell myself that those people are sycophants and products of incest to get through it myself.RaikuFA said:
I hate raisin cookies, I swear they came straight from the depths of hell to torture me with their ways of looking like normal cookies, and my inability to buy a pack of cookies from safeway without having them in them.Evil Smurf said:
I hate parts of the internet.
So I avoid those parts.
The internet is such a big, varied place that it's pretty huge statement to say that you hate the whole thing.
So I avoid those parts.
The internet is such a big, varied place that it's pretty huge statement to say that you hate the whole thing.
Note to self, cookies are useful when dealing with Marter...Marter said:
OT: I've had a love/hate relationship with the internet for as long as I've been on it. I simultaneously love the people who spend time here and despise what they think they can get away with.
I love the EO games, they are practically the only good RPGs left. At least the dungeon crawler type. I haven't played Grimrock, because I don't like playing games on my PC aside from Minecraft and PWI.
I'm currently replaying EO2, and as always I'm going round and round deciding my party make up. First time through I used Ronin, Protector, War Magus, Gunner, Survivalist.
This time I'm using Ronin, Dark Huntress, Troubadour, Gunner, Medic. Might swap the gunner for a Beast if I can remember if they suck or not.
Much like having a Protector I have this idea that I NEED a tank, even if they contribute hardly anything 90% of the game.
Seriously don't know wtf I was thinking/how in the hell I managed with no Medic the first run. Revive is a pretty essential skill, and Patch up is great.
Overall I think I preferred EO2 to EO3 because the dual class system kinda ruined the balance and made some classes only useful with the right sub class and not in their own right. Plus I chose wrong and ended up with the android class instead of the other one. Idk if its good, but I DO know that the android sucks. Its very gimmicky and you barely have any TP to do anything.
Addressing you new found hatred of the internet, which I assume would be taken as the real topic by most, I'm surprised you didn't feel that way sooner.
Assuming that you have been online more than a week, that is.
Its a mixed blessing. You can learn anything you need to know about anything, find just about anything from all media in any format from any place and time you can think of practically.
You also unfortunately have to endure opinions that dissent from your own (easily done assuming you aren't a smartass) and the ones that are so lacking in intelligence that they are surely made by beings that are mirroring our own evolution in reverse. Examples of such raw ignorance and caustic hatred for all things rational in the multiverse, that you can't help but feel a little violated for having stumbled into their lair whilst lured in by the promise of information and its dissemination, and panic at the thought that these THINGS are walking among us unheeded and unmolested.
Personally I love the internet, and am fully aware that since I was first exposed to it in 1995 that it has destroyed me on some very basic level.
I'm currently replaying EO2, and as always I'm going round and round deciding my party make up. First time through I used Ronin, Protector, War Magus, Gunner, Survivalist.
This time I'm using Ronin, Dark Huntress, Troubadour, Gunner, Medic. Might swap the gunner for a Beast if I can remember if they suck or not.
Much like having a Protector I have this idea that I NEED a tank, even if they contribute hardly anything 90% of the game.
Seriously don't know wtf I was thinking/how in the hell I managed with no Medic the first run. Revive is a pretty essential skill, and Patch up is great.
Overall I think I preferred EO2 to EO3 because the dual class system kinda ruined the balance and made some classes only useful with the right sub class and not in their own right. Plus I chose wrong and ended up with the android class instead of the other one. Idk if its good, but I DO know that the android sucks. Its very gimmicky and you barely have any TP to do anything.
Addressing you new found hatred of the internet, which I assume would be taken as the real topic by most, I'm surprised you didn't feel that way sooner.
Assuming that you have been online more than a week, that is.
Its a mixed blessing. You can learn anything you need to know about anything, find just about anything from all media in any format from any place and time you can think of practically.
You also unfortunately have to endure opinions that dissent from your own (easily done assuming you aren't a smartass) and the ones that are so lacking in intelligence that they are surely made by beings that are mirroring our own evolution in reverse. Examples of such raw ignorance and caustic hatred for all things rational in the multiverse, that you can't help but feel a little violated for having stumbled into their lair whilst lured in by the promise of information and its dissemination, and panic at the thought that these THINGS are walking among us unheeded and unmolested.
Personally I love the internet, and am fully aware that since I was first exposed to it in 1995 that it has destroyed me on some very basic level.
That law about 90% of everything being crap? I really hate to say it but it may apply to humanity itself and not just its creations. The small sub-sample of people in your city in RL reminds you sometimes that sometimes people are off, a dick, a liar, or maybe sometimes completely insane with thieving or violent motivations. The internet comprises the whole planet, so you get to see EVERYONE if you try, with the added bonus of anonymity and no fear of repercussion.
This can be very bad if you're willing to subject yourself to it. If I wanted to hang out with geniuses in RL, I'd find out where the guys at NASA go when they aren't working. If I want to hang out with people who aren't dicks on the internet, I stay around here for the most part. The nihilistic thinking of my formative years is pretty much gone as I see how positive an impact rules can have.
I mean, you're talking about hating the internet with us, and we're the internet (and those other people are in the 90% and lack the mental faculties to actually play EO). I wouldn't destroy it as much as I wouldn't destroy the world (eh...hmm.) Besides, the cookie on offer is truly and actually my favorite cookie in the world. Fresh batch, slight melting of the kiss after placement? You may have a soldier, I'm petty.
This can be very bad if you're willing to subject yourself to it. If I wanted to hang out with geniuses in RL, I'd find out where the guys at NASA go when they aren't working. If I want to hang out with people who aren't dicks on the internet, I stay around here for the most part. The nihilistic thinking of my formative years is pretty much gone as I see how positive an impact rules can have.
I mean, you're talking about hating the internet with us, and we're the internet (and those other people are in the 90% and lack the mental faculties to actually play EO). I wouldn't destroy it as much as I wouldn't destroy the world (eh...hmm.) Besides, the cookie on offer is truly and actually my favorite cookie in the world. Fresh batch, slight melting of the kiss after placement? You may have a soldier, I'm petty.
If you want to hate gamers as well as the internet go to the BSN (Bioware Social Network AKA their official forums). The tidal wave of stupidity will make you consider another hobby.
A recent thread suggested that Bioware should make origin stories for Dragon Age 3, just like they did with Dragon Age: Origins.
They suggested they do it as DLC.
A recent thread suggested that Bioware should make origin stories for Dragon Age 3, just like they did with Dragon Age: Origins.
They suggested they do it as DLC.
Wait, what? How could an new release in an obscure as hell, super-hard JRPG series for portable consoles be ruining the industry? I mean, to ruin the industry, wouldn't it first need to actually have an effect on it? What is this, I don't even...
OT: I hate the internet... Sometimes. It gives me nice things and also gives me pain. We got a love-hate relationship going, the internet and me. We frequently fight and insult each other, but then immediately make up.
OT: I hate the internet... Sometimes. It gives me nice things and also gives me pain. We got a love-hate relationship going, the internet and me. We frequently fight and insult each other, but then immediately make up.