Monday, April 30, 2007

 

internet people are funny

how is it that people who are invested in online communities presume everyone else is as well?
sometimes when i'm bored, i do something very close to trolling. i go to this forum that is the hub of communal discussion for a game i played when i was a teenager. i state my opinion (which is rare for me elsewhere), but do so in a very different tone than usual and even exaggerate my feelings on certain subjects. while i don't do it to troll, rather because it's funny to watch people overreact to things that are not even trollish (i don't flame bait, i don't flame, i don't post offense content, et cetera) because they're uptight elitist geeks.
geeks are probably the most humorously pretentious people on the planet. they tend to be homely (be it from naturally being ugly or because they don't take good care of their bodies), they tend to be socially awkward, they tend to be totally lame and yet they are some of the most elitist people you'll meet. not because they're smart and they know it - i'm talking about geeks, not genius scientists. it's such a myth that these kids are smart - they've just applied themselves to certain subjects to make themselves feel as if they're somehow superior to those who do not (for instance) read binary.
then they act all high and mighty.

normally, this would annoy me from other groups but with geeks, it just makes me laugh. it's like poking a stick into a hive of stingless bees. they just swarm around, beating their noisy wings and can't even hurt anybody.

then they expect you to give a damn - and cannot fathom that you might just be bored and enjoy watching them brown nose the alpha geek.

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these are the thoughts of the badger 6:46 PM