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Thought you'd get a kick out of this...the Life Cycle of a USENET Gaming Forum thread. I couldn't stop laughing, having read through such posts on comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg and other such newsgroups. Be glad we have such a great forum here! http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...iles/smile.gif

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<h3>Life cycle of a USENET gaming-forum thread</h3>

1. USENET user A posts an on-topic thread about a computer game from a few years ago, claiming how much he enjoyed it, and comparing it to a current game.

2. User B responds to the thread, begging to differ with User A on the grounds that the older game has little or nothing to do with anything in the new game, and brings up several key points to support his argument.

3. User A gives a rebuttal to User B’s thread, slightly testily, that if User B had bothered to read his post, he would understand what User A was talking about in the first place.

4. User B responds, saying that he did read through User A’s post to begin with, and that User A should go back and read his own words and see what a fool he just made of himself.

5. Before User A can respond, Users C and D post almost at the same time, coming to User A’s defense, and proclaiming User B to be a pedantic, self-serving, geek a**hole whose only real reason for posting was to promote his own blinkered, limited, and unoriginal viewpoint.

6. User E posts, declaiming everyone in the thread to be “puthetic lusers.”

7. User C posts, correcting User E’s grammar and spelling, while making several choice spelling errors of her own.

8. User E points out User C’s spelling errors and proclaims her to be a moronic tard.

9. User F jumps into the fray, claiming User E to be a “troll” and exhorting the others to ignore him.

10. User E posts back, “ha ha ha yu bunch of lusers” and proceeds to taunt the posters with a stream of invective that would make a sailor’s parrot blush.

11. User B finally responds, testily, and with extremely long words excoriates the posters, questioning their ages, genetics, and mental capacities.

12. User A attempts to return to the topic, restating his original point altogether, and claims that the others completely missed the point, that it’s only a game.

13. User B claims that the newer game is NOT just a game, it’s the greatest thing that’s been created since the dawn of computer history, that to compare it to such a old loser game such as User A did is the ultimate insult to the Exalted Masters who created such a masterpiece, and that the rest of the posters are obviously deluded, demented, or mentally incapacitated to think otherwise.

14. User’s C and D immediately flame User B.

15. User E again posts a bunch of inflammatory invective aimed at the participants, finishing up by claiming that anyone who plays computer games needs to grow up and get a -------- life.

16. Users A-D and F all jump on User E and tell him to go away.

17. User E posts, “hA hA hA yU cAn’T mAk3 mE iT’s A pUbLiC fOrUm Go G3T a LiF3 u MoRuNiK jIrK sKuMz”

18. User E immediately posts, using a software program, about 500 spam flood messages to the topic.

19. Users A-D and F abandon the thread in disgust while User E proceeds to trash it further.

20. After about two weeks of silence (and the thread mercifully getting buried), User G posts to the thread, asking if User B’s head is on straight, what do you MEAN that the newer game is better than the older game, and is User E a ------- geek ‘tard who plays with teletubbies and whose mommy still gives him baths...

...and the beat goes on. http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...iles/smile.gif

Great post Sazerac. http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...miles/wink.gif

Even some corporate stock boards/forums contain this sort of rubbish.

[This message has been edited by onthepequod (edited 05-13-2001).]

During our tragic down-time, I visited sites, such as that one, and saw similar sad examples. By divine intervention of a powerful "cat-god" http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...-mycat-anm.gif, was I brought to the true forum, where there is peace and tranquility.

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[This message has been edited by Larry_OHF (edited 05-13-2001).]

It really makes you wonder what kind of people are out there, doesn't it? Onthepequod, that's awful that it's on stock forums as well!! Whew!

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Saz,

This is very funny, but sadly, I've SEEN it happen! Different topic, but same results! LOL

LONG LIVE IRONWORKS!!!!!!!


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Alright Sazerac, I was following you till "invective", was that a fancy way of saying dog cussed? http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...es/biggrin.gif

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are deeds of a man in his prime"

Yeah, it seems that some people find merit in acting like a horses posterior. Which is unfortunate for the serious posters. Fortunatly, the Yahoo boards have an "ignore this user" ability. http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...es/biggrin.gif

John D..."dog cussed" is a GREAT euphemism for invective!! http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/noncgi/smiles/485.gif

Good one!

That one reminds me of a joke I heard a long time ago. There was this Northern Louisiana person walking down a road in Cajun country, when he came across a little boy with a rifle in one hand and a dead hawk in the other. The "yankee" (all North Lousiana people are Yankees according to Cajuns), politely asks the little boy what he's got.

"It's a 'hock'," the little boy said.

"A...'hock'?" the "yankee" asked again.

"Yep, a 'shicken hock'," replied the lad.

"Oh...a Hawk! I've never tasted a hawk before," the man said. "What does hawk taste like?"

The little boy thought and thought, furrowing his brow. "Oh," he said, "a little bit like owl."

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Invective - scathing retort or comment(verbally). http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...miles/wink.gif

I've been there John D. I once looked up "diatribe" and my dictionary defined it as "a fulminating piece of invective." Lots of help that was. So, I had to look up another two words just to understand diatribe.

BTW, fulminating means explosive. http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...miles/wink.gif



[This message has been edited by onthepequod (edited 05-13-2001).]

Onthepequod wrote:
LOL!! "a fulminating piece of invective." => A "flame". http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...miles/wink.gif

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