Well to be honest, after reading general chat on a game like Warcraft, I had very serious doubts about the internet, or really the usage of it under the guise of anonymity. Now that game has over 10 million accounts world wide. The reason I worried was someone would ask a question like:
New Player: Hey, where is General Marcus at?
Old Player: Your mom
NP: What?
OP: He’s on your mom
Helpful Player: Out front of SW
NP: SW?
OP: STFU noob
HP: Stormwind
OP: Don’t help him he’s a noob
Other Player: Any 25 mans going?
OP: Yeah we’re raiding your mom
OP: See that guys I burned him…
And on it goes.
Now back when I was playing I eventually learned how to turn general chat off, then trade chat went, closely followed by LFG, world defense, local defense and eventually guild chat went away.
My problem is not some much as the OP being a jerk, but rather a complete lose of comedic timing, stale material. And reruns of jokes better left buried in the filth that spawned them. I firmly think if Don Rickles wanted to, he could rip a part general chat and never violate the TOS.
I know this would never happen, that and most of the brain dead chatters would refuse to admit he got over on them. But I now digress
I was worried, but I have been hoping around on 20SB links and I am very happy with what I see. I do laugh a lot, and I am getting closer to not being a huge ass about the youth today. But in all honesty, I look forward to these people moving up in the world, I imagine more than a few will write scripts that I will see preformed, and books I will read. Articles, short stories, sitcoms and dramas will come pouring from these writers in huge amounts. I look forward to seeing/reading what will come.
Now mind you, I don’t like all of it but then again my generations’ major contribution to society so far has been phone sex, so yeah aim high kids!
2 weeks ago
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