Submitted by Black Manta - January 16, 2008 at 2:17 pm -0500
@ Benji
That right there hits the nail on the head of why I really hate people like McCullogh, JT and all those guys. It's not that they hate or don't understand video game, it's that willful ignorance and moral arrogance I can't stand. That sense of superiority that believes that they're right and everyone else is wrong, and that if you think differently from them or live your life in a way other than whatever they define as "normal," you are a deviant and a threat to public safety and the nation.
All my life it seems that whatever I've liked has been on the recieving end of some sort of criticism and attack; whether it was Heavy Metal music, comics, cartoons, Sci-Fi, Horror or even video games. I'm also in an open and non-mongmamous relationship. If these people had their way, I'd be at the very least locked-up and/or expelled from the country, at worst tortured and executed.
It's amazing the level of blind ignorance and intolerance exhibited by these peole, and I have to wonder what it is that makes them so convinced their way of thiking is right and so unwilling to listen to or consider alternative points of view to the point where they have to insult or belittle others? It's just a mystery of human nature I do not understand.
Posted 08/21/08 at 08:32pm ZippyDSMlee: Talouin: high learning curve my arse!The game is simpley unfun,period!
Posted 08/21/08 at 04:15pm GRIZZAM PRIME: Hot damn, the Trolls must've taken some troll steroids...they are all over today.
Posted 08/21/08 at 03:03pm Talouin: @ZippyDSMlee: Yea, that game has a really high learning curve fun when you got the hang of it but the SE developers need a kick
Posted 08/21/08 at 02:45pm ZippyDSMlee: Talouin:I quit FF11 3 months after I started, is a horrible game from top to bottom.
Posted 08/21/08 at 02:28pm Talouin: @SimonBob: I have never been happier I quit FFXI last month until now.
Posted 08/21/08 at 01:59pm ZippyDSMlee: Boyycotting only works when sheeple care, the masses have to want to care about subtleties, in general they do not thus why corporate gets as far as it does. However boycotting can raise a fuss and the bad PR might make them take note.
Posted 08/21/08 at 01:20pm SimonBob: There's a full explanation of the FFXI PW fight up: http://rukenshin.livejournal.com/17133.html
Posted 08/21/08 at 01:16pm Talouin: @Quander, That fight is brand spanking new. People just don't know how to do it yet.
Posted 08/21/08 at 01:06pm AM: @GP: Boycott is unlikely to be effective due to how few people would be aware/participate. That said, I boycott EA over their "3 installs then buy another copy" copy protection, so I can't say it's NOT a good idea.
Posted 08/21/08 at 01:06pm GryphonOsiris: @Scribe, just read that. The reports are saying that is was a targeted killing. Odds are a bully, gang related or something.
Posted 08/21/08 at 01:03pm SimonBob: I just glanced over some of the companies' game lists; turns out I was already boycotting three of them anyway.
Posted 08/21/08 at 12:53pm DarkTetsuya: @scribe999 yeah I heard about that, and I *thought* I saw a vulture circling the area...
Posted 08/21/08 at 12:53pm DarkTetsuya: @scribe999 yeah I heard about that, and I *thought* I saw a vulture circling the area...
Posted 08/21/08 at 12:36pm gamepolitics: is a gamer boycott of atari, codemasters, topware and the other 2 UK firms who are extorting file-sharers a good idea?
Posted 08/21/08 at 12:19pm scribe999: Another school shooting...this time in Tennessee. Terrible news. And I'm sure there's much hyperbole to follow.
Posted 08/21/08 at 12:10pm sortableturnip: hehehe ;)
Posted 08/21/08 at 12:09pm DarkTetsuya: @sortableturnip I'm totally putting what you said as my sig :P thanks!
Posted 08/21/08 at 12:02pm sortableturnip: OMG JT speaking in front of another BS group: http://jaablog.jaablaw.com/2007/09/04/
pardon-our-appearance.aspx?pg=2
&view=threaded
Posted 08/21/08 at 11:50am Neeneko: @Quander - I"m not all that familiar with FFXI, but maybe this mob just requires more gank? or there is a trick? larger group?
Posted 08/21/08 at 07:54am sortableturnip: The "smoking gun" is the Florida Bar dropping its insurance coverage from Nationwide
That right there hits the nail on the head of why I really hate people like McCullogh, JT and all those guys. It's not that they hate or don't understand video game, it's that willful ignorance and moral arrogance I can't stand. That sense of superiority that believes that they're right and everyone else is wrong, and that if you think differently from them or live your life in a way other than whatever they define as "normal," you are a deviant and a threat to public safety and the nation.
All my life it seems that whatever I've liked has been on the recieving end of some sort of criticism and attack; whether it was Heavy Metal music, comics, cartoons, Sci-Fi, Horror or even video games. I'm also in an open and non-mongmamous relationship. If these people had their way, I'd be at the very least locked-up and/or expelled from the country, at worst tortured and executed.
It's amazing the level of blind ignorance and intolerance exhibited by these peole, and I have to wonder what it is that makes them so convinced their way of thiking is right and so unwilling to listen to or consider alternative points of view to the point where they have to insult or belittle others? It's just a mystery of human nature I do not understand.