Where to start, where to start, where to start? I usually know just where to start, but today comes a challenge, almost unlike any other, relatively amusing to me.
This challenge is, of course, responding to the amount of hate mail (and the comments in praise and agreement) and disagreement among the comments. And if anyone’s wondering why I tend to address the negative feedback more than the positive feedback: I do so because I’m sure you can all handle being respectable without me having to point it out. But silence is concession, and, as such, I’d like acknowledge my newest fan: Domino.
Domino’s Story
Just like most of the other people that are too incompetent and too blinded by their own defensiveness to recognize my sarcasm, Domino has done quite the obvious, he’s taken to a bitter disposition in response to my “Generic Black Bars” post. Though I think he’s tried to remain “mature” in his vocabulary, his rhetoric is that of a middleschooler who’s had their Cheerios pissed in. What’s even worse, none of the pictures I’ve referred to in my previous post were made by him. So he has no discernible reason to be angry at me, much less trying to get even more people angry at me. He’s also, apparently, extremely impulsive, aggressive and somewhat conniving. All, apparently, in response to my latest blog post.
He also goes by the name, “Danieru-kun” here in the comments section.
He’s trying to convince people to be angry at me, he’s called me a “dick,” and perhaps most interestingly of all, he doesn’t have much of a reason to be mad at me. I haven’t mentioned him or his picture in my last blog post, so I’m not sure why he’s angry. I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume I’ve said something to offend him. But that’s beside the point. Regardless of why he’s mad at me, let’s take a look at how he’s chosen to be mad at me.
You’ve Got the Wrong Guy!
He’s made several posts like this, in several of the threads I’ve referred to, in his attempts to direct anger at me. (Click on the picture for a larger version). First of all, he’s asking people to send hatemail, about me, to a person, who is not only NOT me, but somebody I don’t even know. That’s right, I am not “GuitarFreak” from the Facepunch forums. I don’t frequent them. Looks like you better start sending out apologies, Domino.
GG.
Now, what’s also interesting, is the fact that he’s agreeing with me. Not only should he not be mad at me, but he’s agreeing with me. Now folks, I will discern the difference between disagreement and anger. Sure you might disagree with what I say from time to time, but when you start gathering an angry e-mob of haters in attempts to disparage me and my opinions thereof, chances are you’re pretty pissed off. Why else would he go through the trouble of harnessing an angry group of disgruntled teenagers to silence me?
Here are some of the posts in which he expresses his agreement with me (yet also manages to insult me in):
I don’t think I need to continue with those. It’s obvious that we’re dealing with a very deeply conflicted individual (and I say “deeply” because he obviously cares a great deal about me as he’s found some of the threads that I’ve referred to, advertised me in them, then attempted to direct “hate” at me). There are two things I want to say to this guy:
For God’s sake, say sorry to that poor guy you had everyone send hate mail to on the Facepunch forums. I mean, you probably feel pretty stupid about it, but you should still apologize. Whoever that “GuitarFreak” guy is, he probably didn’t deserve a random flood of hateful Private Messages (that is to say, if anyone even obeyed this “Domino” guy as he asked them to).
And the second point should go to everyone.
If you can’t handle my sarcasm, you shouldn’t be on the internet without parental supervision. It’s as simple as that. I’m not “angry” about this, as some of the responders would like to claim in light of my previous post. If you think this blog is me “raging” or “being mad” at things, you’re horribly mistaken, probably because you’re too blinded by adolescence, insecurity and incompetence to recognize any sort of sarcasm.
And insecurity is what the prevalent issue is here. The logic of what most of these people are saying is, “if you don’t like my pictures, you’re a dick.” Since, you know, we don’t need freedom of speech or freedom to disagree or anything like that. That would be silly!
What’s more, the comments are all terrible. They offer such insightful statements:
“Fuck off.”
“Cry in a corner.”
“You are a faggot”
“Hey asshole”
“fag.”
“Shut the fuck up”
“Go cry in a corner”
But don’t take my word for it! Go see the comments for yourself below the “Generic Black Bars” post!
Despite what it may seem, most of the feedback has been positive. But what I find ironic, is that among all the comments, even those from the newcomers (from Facepunch I assume), the most grammatically correct and the most logical ones, are the ones that agree with the post. And I’m not trying to silence any opposition to my opinions, I’m just noting a trend. I like it when people disagree with me, but these people seem to lack any amount of competence to fight logic with anything other than, “fag.”
Another screenshot from the flood of generic Left 4 Dead 1 and Left 4 Dead 2 crossover-themed shitty screenshots that have been flooding the internet as of late. The addition black bars doesn’t justify the trite, mutilation of these characters.
