Maybe the internet just made it harder to walk away from them.
The Onion writes about a man that could describe most message board posters.
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Maybe the internet just made it harder to walk away from them.
Nah, I had a friend who took pleasure in criticizing every single thing in life, even before the internet. I don't know some people hate everything. Must be tough to make friends unless you find another hater.
CyclopsRock
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I agree. They had this fantastic article a bunch of years back, at the start of the global downturn, about Mexicans complaining that Mexicans that had illegally crossed the border into the US were now illegally crossing back across the border and taking Mexican's jobs. It was good.
Other than that, thedailymash absolutely ruins the onion.
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
Human nature, they always exist.
I think the Internet doesn't just enable them, it also aggravates them. When you only know a few people in real life, it's easy to imagine that something you hate isn't liked by anybody.
When you can go on forums and see ten thousand people enjoying say, Call of Duty, or That Cartoon You Don't Get, the cognitive dissonance must be overwhelming.
The real problem I think, when people end up acting like the guy in this article, is when they lose the distinction between explaining why they don't like something and cross the line to asserting nobody should like it - either directly, or indirectly.
There are a lot of people who get quite angry that their 'opinion' is not being respected, when they don't realize that they're no longer just stating an opinion, but making up their own facts in order to support the degree of outrage they feel.
Generally, if you don't want to be like That Guy, you should practice actually understanding other people's point of view. Cynics tend to be selfish, and believe that their POV is inherently more "honest" and they don't have to consider the view of all those idiots who are clearly wrong. But understanding other people isn't an impenetrable mystery. It just requires dropping your ego down a notch and developing some humility. It's helpful. You don't waste energy going around outraged so much, baffled at how this thing you don't care for exists and why anyone made it.
If I critique something, I try to frame it in a way that doesn't deal with whether or not people ENJOY it. Because they have a right to enjoy whatever is they enjoy. Thus I don't use ridiculous generalizations like "this is the most horrible ______ ever it has no redeeming qualities and should not exist". Which is what you often seen when people claim they're "just expressing their opinion".
Hate that show.
freenudemacusers
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Heh just noticed that pic mentions u2k4.
Man that game was terrible.
Man that game was terrible.
OfWhiteSkinOnRedLeather
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Chicken salad destroys tuna salad.
freenudemacusers
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Never enter the breaking bad thread.
You're just mad because Fox is so popular.
DUFFMCWALIN
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God damnit.
EleventhDoctor
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Or the Doctor Who thread....
Arjen
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Same for me, following tv show threads on GAF is such a buzzkill
That means that I hate you
I dunno, I think the threads for LOST and Battlestar Galactica were worse. It was just non stop belly aching. There were posters who HATED those shows, but had 10 posts queued at the end of each episode.
freenudemacusers
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i wasn't really around for those, sadly (or not so sadly)
Me too. Last season on Dexter was really bad. I'd watch an episode and come away liking it. Go on GAF and find post after post ripping it to shreds.
Legend of Korra (Avatar the last airbender) thread is another level
One poster even suggested that the show is so bad that it requires an apology from the creators.Eh it's worse to read the gaf hyperbolic love threads.
Plus, Dexter season 7 was pretty awful...
Skiesofwonder
Walruses, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers and badgers.
I recently watched season 4 of Dexter, and decided to check the thread for reaction to the finale. All I saw was countless amounts of bitching and complaining, and what is even worse was the majority of it was coming from people that obviously didn't watch or pay attention to the full episode because anybody that did would have known that
. Just hating to be hatin. Don't even get me started on Lost, according to the majority of GAF nobody should watch pass season 1.
And god forbid if you enjoyed any of the Wii ______ (Sports, Music, Resort, Party, Fit, Play, etc...) games.
Rita didn't commit suicide, and the trinity killer murdered her
And god forbid if you enjoyed any of the Wii ______ (Sports, Music, Resort, Party, Fit, Play, etc...) games.
Piercedveil
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The author has to be a GAF member.
Alligatorjandro
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People need to be told when they like things that aren't good.
Stephen Stills
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holy shit it's Jeff Gerstmann in a nutshell.
Yea the ff13 hate was just getting stupid.
Ghost_Protocol
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The Daniel Day Lewis part killed me. The person/people who wrote that article HAVE to read gaf.
Hot Coldman
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*golf clap*
haha
and also this reminds of all the stupid shit that was said in the last LTTP Uncharted 3 thread I read. There's a clear difference between a game being disappointing and it being atrocious.
Synth_floyd
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Come on guys, Godfather III wasn't that bad.
TimeEffect
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But he's right about Dark Knight Rises. It sucked like hell.
Chuckie
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Oh my God it's GAF to a T.
Really?
Yup, you're right.
RSLAEV
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Hey hey, don't misrepresent me, it's still a bad game, I think it deserves a certain amount of hate.
What is this from? I like that shirt.
Riposte
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Me?
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