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| Topic Started: Dec 8 2015, 05:47 PM (6,966 Views) | |
| Mr Mysterio | Dec 9 2015, 03:35 AM Post #16 |
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I made a single comment on a video about sexism in the video game community, about how I thought the video made good points. Almost 200 people showed up to tell me I was wrong, that sexism was dead, someone called me a f*ggot, I was feeling sassy and replied by telling them I was actually bi, to which they responded by calling me a "half-f*ggot". And one person wrote a comment that just said, "Yeah, well, you're a towel." Just "a towel." Not "a wet towel", which is at least a pre-established insult. "A towel." To this day, I'm still not even sure if they were insulting me, or if there was some other meaning behind their words. Then there was that girl on Deviantart who insisted that letting children drive a vehicle was more logical and safe than letting gay people get married. Man, the internet is full of some great people. |
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| trex841 | Dec 9 2015, 04:12 AM Post #17 |
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Need to add opinionated to the equation, me thinks. |
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| Canis Lupis | Dec 9 2015, 04:15 AM Post #18 |
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Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the Earth.
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Just to clarify: "You're a towel" is a quote from South Park. A character named Towelie, a sapient towel created by scientists, is perpetually high, and often says this as a response to questions he doesn't want to answer. |
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| Myxini | Dec 9 2015, 04:28 AM Post #19 |
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Back when I was very young and making YouTube videos about bionicles I had made, someone messaged me and asked me to help him replace the popularity of a different YouTuber; the latter was an individual I respected at the time, though they made videos at a slow pace. I sent the message I had received to the YouTuber being targeted, who then proceeded to tell the first individual where he could stick his insults and plans for takeover. I was then contacted again by the first person, saying how he had only contacted me so far (which struck me as very surprising seeing as I had a total of 2 subscribers at the time and 0 influence) and that he was going to wreck me. The next day two new YouTubers started telling me to leave YouTube and to kill myself. When I asked why they were doing this, they said that they had no idea why, and that they were doing it because the first YouTuber had told them to. One of them eventually became my friend once I told them what had happened, and the other just decided it was all stupid and left me alone. |
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| trex841 | Dec 9 2015, 04:46 AM Post #20 |
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"Hey, go to this guy and tell him to kill himself." "'K." God, I hate people. |
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| Monster | Dec 9 2015, 04:49 AM Post #21 |
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Space Oddity
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Well, I think online dating is also cheating, perhaps moreso than Tumblr, but the strangest non-dating site-related encounters I have had stem from WoW and...I'm not actually sure where Weirdo No. 2 first found me but he followed me around a few different places. WoW guy was part of the reason I stopped playing, long sad boring story, but TO THIS DAY he tries to add me on social media every few months with messages that are abusive and unhinged but also offering me money and "protection from the predators of this world". Weirdo No. 2 basically does the same thing but half of his messages are disturbing stories/poetry/stream of consciousness prose and the other half are really weird passive aggressive to borderline abusive paranoid monologues about all this conspiracy theory stuff, how rubbish women are, how awful I am in particular, how I could save myself if I just listened to him, and how he wants the true citizens of the UK to arm ourselves as we are some sort of final "Celtic stronghold" in these dark times and he hopes to find refuge here when America is "uninhabitable". Isn't the internet a fun place!? |
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| Kamidio | Dec 9 2015, 05:09 AM Post #22 |
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The Game Master of the SSU:NC
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Monster, have you considered homocide?In case no one one got it, I'm talkin' about Spec Evo. Ya'll're a buncha fuckin' weirdos. |
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| Sheather | Dec 9 2015, 08:03 AM Post #23 |
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I was sent a private message which told me I was supposedly put under a Satanic curse by an individual in the Zoo Tycoon community at one point. I also remember coming across a woman on a pet keeping forum maybe back in 2011? Who went on a complete 10+ paragraph tyrade against me after I shared one cute photo of my three pet rats at the time and inadvertently revealed that I wasn't feeding them the exact brand of food she said I needed to be and that without "Harlan-Teklad laboratory rodent diet" they were going to be racked with ailments and die of protein poisoning. They did not. |
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| Holben | Dec 9 2015, 08:11 AM Post #24 |
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Rumbo a la Victoria
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I don't know how this is possible, but I honestly can't think of a time I had a really odd internet encounter with anyone. Maybe I'm just that good at choosing decent discussions to take part in. Or maybe I'm the odd encounter. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Cephylus | Dec 9 2015, 08:52 AM Post #25 |
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Torando of Terror
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One of my oddest encounters was getting into an argument with a female sexist asshole who sent me a drawing of a grotesquely injured male penis to insult me. |
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| Monster | Dec 9 2015, 09:47 AM Post #26 |
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Space Oddity
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Holben, with the really odd ones, you don't choose them - they choose you! |
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| Dragonthunders | Dec 9 2015, 10:11 AM Post #27 |
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The ethereal archosaur in blue
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I had some strange encounters in skype, in certain occasions of those people who invite you to your contacts randomly, I accepted the first time, thinking it was someone from here of the forum or deviant, but it turned out otherwise. After a talk where this person insisted see us on the webcam I ended up removing and blocking him/her Another strange encounter that I had was a person in deviantar, about to join in a group that was about Pangea, but it was confusing, we had to pretend that supposedly existed in the supercontinent Pangea with some barns or something like that. |
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| Flisch | Dec 9 2015, 12:50 PM Post #28 |
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Thing is, the planet is full of those people. The internet merely gives them a platform. It only allows us to see them. Without the internet we could pretend they don't exist, but now we are forced to see the truth. |
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| Dragon | Dec 9 2015, 01:18 PM Post #29 |
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/r/GamingCirclejerk is the best subreddit, don't @ me
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I found another weird and stupid thing while browsing through reddit. It's a screenshot of a facebook post that someone took. Take a moment to bask in its idiocy. |
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"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life," John 3:16 A neat pixel animation of a future cowboy
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| Sayornis | Dec 9 2015, 01:31 PM Post #30 |
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Neotenous
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That reminds me of an odd message I once received on a forum years ago. It wasn't remotely hostile, but it was totally inexplicable. Someone sent me a link to a personal webpage of some sort along with a photo of a smiling young woman (possibly the person sending the message, but who knows) in a room full of corn kernels. It was like a ball pit but with uncooked corn kernels, and this woman was waist deep in there and had kernels stuffed under her shirt. @Dragon: as you said about my "dead chicken" example, I don't know where to start with that. Who on earth is arguing that any ethnic group "owns" blond hair, for starters? |
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