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[Tommie Hu$tle]

Ever since 9-11 I always turn on the TV of log on to the internet hoping to see some massacare or bombing or major calamity. Don't get me wrong I "feel" for the people that are in those tragadies but, there is something about it that I just can't get enough of...



Here we've been watching the footage from the tusnami all day and just awestricken but, the word I keep thinking is Awesome.


Is it just me? Or do others lust for calamities?

 

[cvxfreak]

You sir, need help.

 

[Chony]

Whenever I am in a down mood I want natural disasters to happen to me, but other than that, no.

 

[Musashi Wins!]

Well, given your location I'd say your odds for seeing one up close are pretty good.

As a side-note, I think most people get taken in by the spectacle of gigantic, horrific scenes. I don't think most turn away, at least not initially. I think it's perfectly normal, even if the ethics are questionable. Most just wouldn't admit it.

 

[Tommie Hu$tle]

Well, given your location I'd say your odds for seeing one up close are pretty good.

As a side-note, I think most people get taken in by the spectacle of gigantic, horrific scenes. I don't think most turn away, at least not initially. I think it's perfectly normal, even if the ethics are questionable. Most just wouldn't admit it.

I think that's it. It's the spectacle of the these events that get you. I mean obviously there is a turning point where enough is enough (wall to wall 9-11 coverage for example). But these is a spectacle that is for lack of a better phase: morbidly intoxicating.

 

[Nerevar]

As a side-note, I think most people get taken in by the spectacle of gigantic, horrific scenes. I don't think most turn away, at least not initially. I think it's perfectly normal, even if the ethics are questionable. Most just wouldn't admit it.

isn't this well-documented? The whole "everyone slows down to see an accident on the highway, even if it's on the other side" thing is widely accepted.

 

[automagnus]

I think a good visit to rotten.com is a much better choice then going to war.....


but thats just me.

 

[Drexon]

Ever since 9-11 I always turn on the TV of log on to the internet hoping to see some massacare or bombing or major calamity. Don't get me wrong I "feel" for the people that are in those tragadies but, there is something about it that I just can't get enough of...



Here we've been watching the footage from the tusnami all day and just awestricken but, the word I keep thinking is Awesome.


Is it just me? Or do others lust for calamities?

I gotta say I'm "that" too. I flick through the news expecting something as "big" as 9-11 has happend again. :/ Think it's just a natural phase of being desensitivized. Didn't really get the same feeling from this disaster as I haven't seen any pictures from it though.

 

[Kabuki Waq]

your in the armed forces right now as we speak right?

 

[kumanoki]

The concept of a giant wave crushing a town is cool in theory, but when you see locals dragging the corpses of their dead children out of the standing water, it really can change your perspective how 'cool' a tsunami might be.

The first thing my wife and I thought when we heard about it was, "Whew! Thank god we didn't go to Phuket!" But now, I realize we were pretty lucky. We could've easily ended up there, and we could just as easily be dead.

 

[shakezula]

This whole disaster has bummed me out really. Contact with aliens is about the only news I look forward to out of entertainment value.

to be morbid for a second this happened a year to the day of last year's iran earthquake of dec 26 which killed 30,000. Is this a regular occurrence God plans to send down the pipeline - boxing day earthquakes? If so sign me up for satanism (1000% kidding about that last sentence.. not a joking matter).

 

[Minotauro]

I think most people feel this way even if they don't want to admit it to themselves. Like they say in the news media, "if it bleeds, it leads."

 

[MIMIC]

Well, I collect newspapers (and added today's to my current collection), so I guess I also have some sort of "crave for disaster" in me, too.

 

[MetatronM]

I definitely have some of this in me too. A couple of months after I got back from Japan they had a decent-sized earthquake and the only thing I could think of was "dammit, why couldn't that have happened when I was there?!"

 

[Tommie Hu$tle]

your in the armed forces right now as we speak right?

Heavens no, I'm in Iraq but I'm not in the military I'm a military contractor I work for a defense contractor. I'm here to try and get a giant tax shelter for my money so I don't have to pay into the system.

 

[J2 Cool]

Sometimes the awe of it all ignites the imagination. Makes me wonder about the unimaginable. Like what an asteroid would look like closing in or the impact viewed from a sattelite. But I don't really hope for it. If it happens though I do enjoy one part of it. The way people come together after such a thing. Humanity I mean. I wish it didn't take such a disaster for this to be common. And the way people forget and go on about their selfish ways. I like it for the new perspective it gives on life. What's really important. In some ways I feel humbled and both sad and glad. It's death, disaster. It brings a lot of emotions to the table. :-/

 

[DaCocoBrova]

Go watch The Day After Tomorrow or something.

 

[Optimistic]

Jesus Christ, did someone change the name of this forum to "Attention Seekers Anonymous"? It still says Gaming Age at the top but uh, from the number of "I'm a complete mental/have a big dick" posts you sure could have fooled me.

 

[gunstarhero]

hmmmmmmmmm

 

[Wuster]

They call me Mr. Glass

 

[demi]

Is it just me? Or do others lust for calamities?

ZOMBIE OUTBREAK!!!11

 

[Teknopathetic]

Fascination with the abomination.

 

[Tommie Hu$tle]

Jesus Christ, did someone change the name of this forum to "Attention Seekers Anonymous"? It still says Gaming Age at the top but uh, from the number of "I'm a complete mental/have a big dick" posts you sure could have fooled me.

Truly your name is misleading.
:lol

If you want to talk about games go to the other side. I'm sure there are some regular Stephen Hawkins over there that will readily engage you in some chipper game talk.

 

[Dice]

I don't. Horrible things are always going on all the time and I read about it plenty, I just want it to stop. I saw the news reports of this and almost cried (and I'm really not the type). Mostly because of the disaster, but also because they were talking about raising aid for the hunger and disease to come when they had hunger and disease before and most didn't do anything. I think it shows a lot of people will usually help if they see the problem, are told how they can help and then encouraged to do so, but unless something is unexpected the media doesn't do that.

Anyways, around 9/11 we got a lot of outside help and heard a lot of talk about putting aside differences and helping people in need--I guess we'll now find out who meant it.

 

[madara]

Ever since 9-11 I always turn on the TV of log on to the internet hoping to see some massacare or bombing or major calamity. Don't get me wrong I "feel" for the people that are in those tragadies but, there is something about it that I just can't get enough of...



Here we've been watching the footage from the tusnami all day and just awestricken but, the word I keep thinking is Awesome.


Is it just me? Or do others lust for calamities?

Have you considered a profession in the news? Like achorman perhaps?

 

[Tommie Hu$tle]

When I am saying awesome. I'm not saying awesome in the sense of cool but, in the real sense of the word worthy of awe.


I think some of you have misinterperted that.

 

[firex]

Same here, man... I've been following any developments on Nintendo's next console as closely as I can.

 

[belgurdo]

Jesus Christ, did someone change the name of this forum to "Attention Seekers Anonymous"? It still says Gaming Age at the top but uh, from the number of "I'm a complete mental/have a big dick" posts you sure could have fooled me.

HAY GUYS I POST IN TOPICS I DON'T LIKE JUST TO SAY I DON'T LIKE THEM! NO, I'M NOT AN ATTENTION WHORE MYSELF!!!

 

[Tommie Hu$tle]

Same here, man... I've been following any developments on Nintendo's next console as closely as I can.

LOL

 

[psycho_snake]

I could never think like that. the people involved in it stop me from thinking like you. I know you feel sorry for them, but I just couldnt think like that.

Just think if you were one of the people in the 9/11 incident who died. You would never think that it was awe-ing (didnt know how else to put it)

 

[psycho_snake]

Same here, man... I've been following any developments on Nintendo's next console as closely as I can.

:lol :lol :lol That was great.

 

[shakezula]

For tsunami followers the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands might be the place to watch (worst case scenario scaremongering follows)

So called 'megatsunamis' are rare occurrences of large tsunamis that are almost exclusively triggered by land collapses.
During its last volcanic eruption in 1949, the western half of the island of La Palma fractured and slipped several meters downwards. Scientists predict at any point within the next few thousand years it has to erupt again causing half the island (approximately 500 billion tonnes of rock) to completely collapse into the sea. This will send out a megatsunami which will hit the UK within 5 hours and the US eastern seaboard within 12 hours.