Real Life and Guild Wars
So heres how it goes - I'm sitting at work and talking to this sorta friend who comes into the cafe every now and then to play CS and chat. I made him a DVD that he asked for with some goodies on it like Photoshop and what not. Now here comes Satan herself. I dunno WHY she was hired- she hates people and you need to be a people person, she almost never shows up, and she steals the lan cables. Shes the kind of person you just wanna make dissappear. She interupts all your conversations, thinks her opinion is right while everyone else's is wrong, and pretends to be things she is not ("darK", tough, whatever. You get my drift- a poser). So she immidatily interupts my conversation with Andrew (The sorta friend) and starts dissing the guy. Now Andrew is a regular. He's a good person and a good customer. Last thing I want is for him to stop coming to the cafe. Not because hes good buisness, but because he's good company. So now I've had it- I've taken enough crap from this woman. I just verbaly REAM on her, noting all her charictor flaws, stating everything wrong about her and how nobody in the office will ever like her. Obviosuly I had her cornered, so, like every other corned pathetic person, she tried to threaten me. "I'll shank you" she says. Shank. How sad. Now she thinks shes gangster. Finnaly she gives up realizing I'm laughing my butt off and leaves the office. Andrew and I finnaly catch our breath from laughing and suddenly I realize: She is just like some of the bad Guild Wars players. Ever see these people on Guild Wars (not just GW, but just about ANY online game) who try to project an image of themselves that is obviously a shroud? Or the people who threaten you, saying "I have your IP address" *Sort* or "Give me your address, I'll come kill you." It's exactly the same. I think I now understand. It's the ego. People feel safer on the internet to say things- nobody can harm them, nobody knows who they really are.. They feel free to let out all their negativity on the net. Some people do this in real life- we commonly call them buttheads. But on the internet, we call them punks or noobs. So I guess I'm posting this to say: "Wow, some people are just really pathetic." Now realizing this, you guys have nooo idea how much I appreciate yall. Not once have I met a bunch of folks who arn't as I call, "A joke." You guys are a nice gang. Lets just make sure these "buttheads" don't affect our lives anymore :3
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