Monday, March 19, 2012

How Do I Human Being?

With the rise of digital distribution for computer games, the Internet is more relevant than ever as an integral part of PC Gaming.  I, for one, love digital distribution, because it allows me to get my games very quickly and without having to worry about losing discs or manuals.  However, with the convenience of the Internet comes all the notoriety along for the ride, and sometimes it can be pretty damned disheartening to consider yourself a part of this community.  If you don't realize what the Internet is, and what the Internet breeds, then you could find yourself pretty shocked when you see what the "majority" of people think about certain topics.

I'm here to give you one very important piece of advice:  Nothing that you see on the Internet is the "majority".  Nothing.  I'll repeat:  NOTHING.  I don't care if you see a comments section where every single person is telling you a game is bad -- it doesn't mean ANYTHING.  I don't care HOW passionate someone is hating on something.  It means NOTHING.  THEY mean nothing.  Why?  Well, for starters, only the people that hate the game are going to be inclined to comment.  The others are all enjoying the game and have no need to troll comment sections.  Next, human beings like to feel special, and the most popular way they know how to feel special is to jump on a Hate Bandwagon.  It's called the herd mentality.  That's right.  Herd.  I just called the Internet a bunch of sheep.  And lastly, the Internet provides anonymity.  If you give a human being anonymity, they will abuse it, and they will do things that they wouldn't normally do if their audience could see their face, know their name, or punch them in the fucking nuts for being a twat.

The bottom line is that it's perfectly okay to dislike a game, to say it's not for you, to say that you don't think it's worth the price of admission.  It's NOT okay to just say something is crap and provide no other reason, to hate on someone else who likes the game, or to, in other words, be a useless troll.

I deal with people all day long in the real world.  Very, very rarely to they act like self-entitled cunts who I want to curb stomp into ignoramus-paste.  They don't confuse opinion with fact and they don't hate someone for thinking differently from them.  In fact, at work we PRAISE people for thinking differently, because that quite often leads to finding a solution to a problem. It's called "thinking outside of the box".

So before I bestow upon you another very important piece of advice for when "you Internet", first I have a request:  Don't be a fucking cunt.

And now for the advice:  People are going to hate you and the thing that you like simply because you like it.  That is it.  Ignore them.  Because you know what?  You are a REAL human being.  You're allowed to like things.  And no other human being, no matter how self-entitled they are, no matter how big of a cunt they are, can take that away from you.

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