“We lived in a world where if, say, Jesus would come up to your door... You’d complain about how you didn’t like the brand of his sandals.”
Today’s internet is filled with a lot of good things. Major and minor gaming sites full of news from the greatest games ever made, video footage and screenshots, to news sites with downloadable and on-screen up-the-the-minute news tickers about many things. But then, after just a bit, you begin to look at what the actual people, not the editors or journalists are saying. And boy, is it rarely a pretty sight.
Most message boards on any website are typically based around three basic structures:
1. A generally happy message board, with typically friendly posts and thoughts on current events.
2. At least one member who -has- to be the center of attention, regardless of the subject, this individual will almost always disagree and/or insult others on any opinions other than their own. And even contradict themselves simply to disagree.
3. Religious, and for gaming sites, [Console X] anti-establishments. (Xbox pun- not intended.) For example, lots of Atheists like to start debates with Christians over this and that for no reason. The same can be said for the Christians. This causes a lot of commotion and often veers a good topic completely off center, thus destroying it for the sake of beliefs that cannot be proved either way. The same is applicable to console bashers, individuals who take their matter of opinion and form it into fact, we’re all guilty of this every once in a while, but some people just don’t know when to stop.
My question is, why all the hatred and complaints? What happened to good old having fun? Why is everyone so hell bent on taking a luxury such as the internet, and metamorphosizing it into a central development headquarters for frustration, spelling errors and "yo momma" jokes? It’s as if everyone wants to debate every thought in their head with someone, somewhere. In the pre-web days, when you invited a friend over, you would eat some food, drink (Be it beer, kool-aid or bottles of stuff you found under the couch), go out and do crap, or maybe play some video games. Rarely did this inviting of company involve insulting their train of thought and making death threats. Yeah, everyone has the right to complain as much as they want, blah blah , free speech and whatnot.
But if that’s all you’re going to do, why not just stay offline altogether?
If everything here frustrates you so much, makes you so angry, just don’t do it anymore. Oh yes, it’s addicting, but so is your blood pressure. Yes we all know constant frustration can actually be very unhealthy for you, which is why it’s good to visit the occasional site where everything loses ground and you can just laugh, or how about searching for something you find intriguing? For the weirdo in all of us, there are countless U.F.O dedicated websites, Ghost Picture/Video/Sound/Story websites and plenty based on jokes ranging from actual events to crap some guy thought up while smacking his face against the wall. There are sites based on famous people, games, electronics, everything. Yet everyone still manages to find something they don’t like, and spend all the time they have on the internet there. Without realizing that, with the internet, you can virtually look into any plausible aspect of man kind ever stored anywhere. From Wright Brothers’ Plane blueprints to videos of monkeys knocking themselves out with farts.
So with all the knowledge available on the planet at your fingertips, why are you busy calling people ass belonkers?
This is more of a rant than an editorial, but I figured I needed to vent myself, yes this is a complaint about people complaining, but at least this complaint attempts to try to serve a positive purpose in this hell hole we call the internet. Come on people, get on Google and do a search for something we’ll love and post it or something! Anyone remember the active-video camouflage? That rocked. All your base? Well, that rocked at first, but then the world fell into hell. And it spread from newspapers to Times magazine to Futurama. Scary. But see what a significant impact a little video can do? Get out there and stop being a moron, learn something and teach us, because we have enough idiots in the world!
Recommended site of the day:
Maddox, with his hilarious rants on everything ever, he takes anger and turns it into something to smile about. Which kicks ass cause he even gets Christopher Reeves, that old ass belonker.
