Deus Ex Alpha

Have you guys ever noticed that the forums you go on nowadays are significantly worse than what they used to be?

Yes.

Totally, as discussed on MSN.

Yup.

No

although that is because I don't visit a lot of forums regularly

I used to visit 5 forums regularly

That's now down to 2, these forums being one of them

While I'm here, Cata your sig is making the sig rules cry

Kaiden wrote:While I'm here, Cata your sig is making the sig rules cry

oops

fixed

clyzm wrote:Have you guys ever noticed that the forums you go on nowadays are significantly worse than what they used to be?

This is the first forum I have been on since I was last on this forum

I just cba getting to know people on a different forum, plus no topic I want to discuss with randoms I guess.

Randoms are always a mixed bag.

This is the only forum i've visited consistently for years

clyzm wrote:

Kaiden wrote:While I'm here, Cata your sig is making the sig rules cry

oops

fixed

i didn't really mind lol.

But yeah, some of the other forums I've posted on seem to have gone meh in quality, not so much in activity though.

I'm a swinger, I belong and I've belonged to a lot of online communities and believe me I have this same attitude on each and every single one of them. For example I found it funny when I got de-admined here and people thought I'd stop being a asshole, whoops.

As for the degenerative nature of online, well I am going to blame 4chan for this. I think it became prominent when I heard the term "troll" a lot more often, now this word and other synonyms such as "taking the piss/mick/toffee" etc has always been around. Nowadays around the internet acting like a retard is now acceptable but there's people who take it to the next level that won't stop trying to piss other people off which I draw the line. This promotes selfish and unfriendly attitudes with the circlejerks of assholes. People are so up their ass these days they'd insult everyone's tastes for the sake of pure disgust and to get a Damn reaction. In the last 3 years off a 4chan TF2 offshoot there's tons of these losers including some mary queen tosser (who got bullied out of highschool) stalking my Myspace, old facebook because I stuck up for a fat kid (who is a cool fat kid). The bully victim ended up being 19 stone, bullied in secondary school (as previously mentioned), aspergers syndrome and he also has a pig nose.

One of the best things ever to do against a troll similar to these is if they start trying to get a reaction is to be terribly serious and very God Damn vague with replies back and after their replies are literally (works everytime) reduced to repeating themselves or laughing constantly just change the subject ignoring them. They have no ammo and would give up very easily.

Oh and don't worry kids I'm the same in person, I'm a cocky chubby opinionated nerd dude with the fashion sense of a hipster from 2001 with a stammer who spent all of yesterday laughing because he finally got a Vegan wool from Wigan out of the work place for treating our workmen who were "not technologically minded" like shit because they couldn't use A WINDOWS MOBILE OS (fucking) PDA application to talk to a shitty Unix based system patched since 1997.

Without getting in tangents, treat people how you want to be treated. Treat me like a faggot.

As for the degenerative nature of online, well I am going to blame 4chan for this.

4chan is not as popular as you make it out to be. Regardless, there seems to be a lot of people here who have visited it. Just because it's a big reference in the few online communities you participate, doesn't mean it's all over the place. Many fads/memes/jokes/wordplay/hypes are just reposted on that board though, which makes it sound like it's the center of the internet to some.

I think it became prominent when I heard the term "troll"

I've seen the word troll used on many forums, before 4chan even existed, even used it myself, but didnt use it much after something silly in DX:

me: this guy is just being trolled by that person
player: OMG U MEAN TROLLIED IS HERE?

Then a few years later a few on this forum were like "ehehehe am trolling"

Then why even mention it in your post?

This image, cool face, became troll face.

Troll face was plastered all over the internet whenever someone was sarcastic, it became a HUGE THING to troll online because it's cool guys!!!

So that's where its from :q

WELL LET ME TELL YOU THIS IN CAPS JAMES

MANY SILLY THINGS THAT ORIGINATED SOMEWHERE ELSE BECAME A INTERNETWIDE THING

Yeah where the fuck did that coolface come from and why is it now associated with what people call trolling nowadays

It came from a comic about weed people can/may relate to with a hilarious outcome with them trying to act like nothing is going wrong.



http://media.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles ... 430987.jpg

Smart answers about this image's location aside, the comic is from 4chan and it's been plastered by people.

Whenever people reference 4chan or not and internet memes come from where ever, the trolling crazes of recent years have started at 4chan with it's post 2006 focus on "RUINING LIVES FOR THE SAKE OF IT" mindset and this is something you'd have to trust me despite me not giving a concrete proof.

For a semi related example there's people saying "THE CAKE IS A LIE" yet they don't even know it's from Portal, they're doing it because other people are doing it. These people do indeed exist.

Sure 4chan may have made that image popular, I won't refute that.

Trolling itself however, has been there long before that though, it's popularity is merely caused by the assholeness/humor of humanity: laughing at other people winding themselves up so badly, over something you're just saying to make them do so. The fact that you're just online, where most people don't know much about you, makes it even easier to do so.

Oh I know that, but I still find 4chan as a huge benefactor to let the internet embrace their dickish behaviour more openly whenever they're aware of the website or not, there's communities promoting this kind of shit such as Destructroid for example.
Edit: note this is mostly common for nerd culture communities such as music, videogames and technology websites for example. You'd barely find anything at say a football forum where you'd just get confused people "um??..." with one of those gay ass invision board smilies attached.

Why are we having the exact same discussion in private and on the forum lol

I thought 4chan was just a board with several subjects. Last time I checked, the random board was just... random posts about anything really. Might've changed now though, yes, so tell me, how does it promote being a dick?

Why are we having the exact same discussion in private and on the forum lol

BECAUSE SERIOUS ANGER INSULTING COMES WITH A PRICE ON THESE FORUMS

The whole raiding and anti social aspects of it all ranging from pictures of ex girlfriends/stalking women the majority find hot, arguing about literally anything (/v/), being so opinionated and because of it being 'open' people who dislike something go into the thread and slag it off or being elitist (/mu/, /g/)

in my dream i am the star wrote:BECAUSE SERIOUS ANGER INSULTING COMES WITH A PRICE ON THESE FORUMS

homage to 4chan!!!

How does being socially awkward, being a creep by posting pics of girls you know and fantasize about, contribute to being a dickhead?

Well ask Dex.

I have no boundaries.

I'd like to note because of my lack of knowledge of memes (I am not a faggot), the cool face WAS actually the 'troll face'.



This was created on /r9k/, a /b/tard took it and plagiarised it in the cool face comic which surged it in popularity to be used as a troll face bastardising the original comic's insult and reality of most trolls.

I agree with what James wrote, for some reason people who I'm sure have never even been on 4chan keep quoting "trolllface.jpg" and stuff.

It seems that I lack.. ALOT OF MEME KNOWLEDGE