I'm starting to hate the internet

[Kristian Fischer]

STARTING to hate it?!?!? Wish I still had the OPs doe-eyed innocence...

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I hate what the Internet has become. I also hate social networking. Social networking has seen the death of professionalism, respect among peers, and what little remained of common decency.

Besides, without the internet, I wouldn't have the Escapist, or Threadless, or...or...!

Many other awesome things.

I could live with that. I mean I could live the loss of those things, that is.

Is there something you couldn't live without?

Sure there is, but the Escapist and the Internet in general aren't among the things I can't live without. ...not that I'm agreeing that the Internet needs to be destroyed that is. Destroying it won't solve the problem.

That works.

I think, due to free will, it won't ever be "okay". It'll be good, & bad. Just like real life.

Yeah... I just wish I could encounter the good much more often.

 

[RaikuFA]

STARTING to hate it?!?!? Wish I still had the OPs doe-eyed innocence...

It used to be 70 love/30 hate now its like 40 love/60 hate.

 

[Semudara]

Nooooo.

I love the internet. It gives me a place to kill time when I'm bored.

Wait. What kind of cookies?

Peanut Butter with a Hersey Kiss on top.

Also, after its destroyed, we should reshape it.

I vote we rebuild with 100% less fanboys!

Also: What the hell!? Etrian Odyssey 4 looks awesome.
Sadly I never played any of these (and I don't have a 3DS) but what I looked up just now reminds me of a more animated "Class of Heroes" on PSP (which is awesome - but I wish they would export the PS3 sequel) or a more colourful version of the recent "Wizardry" game on the consoles.

So what is it about an old school dungeon crawler on the 3DS that is being claimed to be ruining the industry?

Ever since Rainfall, its become cool to bash people who like those games.

I'm starting to think it's not worth playing if I'm just gonna be harrased.

The phenomenon you're talking about really isn't widespread. If you go ahead and play lots of Etrian Odyssey 4, and talk about it on the internet, you're not going to get any more haters than if you were talking about Shadow of the Colossus. The world's just full of haters like that, every bit as much as it is filled with good people.

Now, it is common to criticize the Japanese game industry for being "samey" lately and all that jazz, but that's different than people mocking anyone who likes, say, "Radiant Historia". Heck, even "Solatorobo: Red the Hunter", a VERY Japanese game, gets a lot more internet love than hate.

Seriously... a negative backlash to Operation Rainfall? That's news to me. Last I checked, the only significant repercussion of that movement (besides two of the games getting a U.S. release and being quite popular) has been the creation of Operation: Moonfall.

Actually, this guy said it a lot better than I have:

When those few comments you mention are less than 15% of the total comments, with a majority expressing their excitement and the rest questioning the six paragraphs justifying a font, I think you may be overreacting.

EDIT: Also, this is the internet. No matter where you go, you should expect some hateful comments every now and then just because you're on the internet.

 

[PhunkyPhazon]

I love the internet. I just don't like 95% of the people who comment on it.

 

[RaikuFA]

Nooooo.

I love the internet. It gives me a place to kill time when I'm bored.

Wait. What kind of cookies?

Peanut Butter with a Hersey Kiss on top.

Also, after its destroyed, we should reshape it.

I vote we rebuild with 100% less fanboys!

Also: What the hell!? Etrian Odyssey 4 looks awesome.
Sadly I never played any of these (and I don't have a 3DS) but what I looked up just now reminds me of a more animated "Class of Heroes" on PSP (which is awesome - but I wish they would export the PS3 sequel) or a more colourful version of the recent "Wizardry" game on the consoles.

So what is it about an old school dungeon crawler on the 3DS that is being claimed to be ruining the industry?

Ever since Rainfall, its become cool to bash people who like those games.

I'm starting to think it's not worth playing if I'm just gonna be harrased.

The phenomenon you're talking about really isn't widespread. If you go ahead and play lots of Etrian Odyssey 4, and talk about it on the internet, you're not going to get any more haters than if you were talking about Shadow of the Colossus. The world's just full of haters like that, every bit as much as it is filled with good people.

Now, it is common to criticize the Japanese game industry for being "samey" lately and all that jazz, but that's different than people mocking anyone who likes, say, "Radiant Historia". Heck, even "Solatorobo: Red the Hunter", a VERY Japanese game, gets a lot more internet love than hate.

Seriously... a negative backlash to Operation Rainfall? That's news to me. Last I checked, the only significant repercussion of that movement (besides two of the games getting a U.S. release and being quite popular) has been the creation of Operation: Moonfall.

Actually, this guy said it a lot better than I have:

When those few comments you mention are less than 15% of the total comments, with a majority expressing their excitement and the rest questioning the six paragraphs justifying a font, I think you may be overreacting.

EDIT: Also, this is the internet. No matter where you go, you should expect some hateful comments every now and then just because you're on the internet.

But this is part of the problem: People like them keep sending harrasing emails to people that like those games. And mods just ignore it because what I like < what they like. Plus you can't fight back cause once again my likes < their likes, every gaming website does this. Its like how a store refuses to kick out a customer that is making other customers lives miserable just because the offending customer spends hundreds at the store every week.

 

[lord.jeff]

If you don't like the internet then stop using it or just try to ignore the idiots on it, whichever you prefer. Though ignoring idiots is very much easier said then done.

 

[Pink Gregory]

There's waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much negativity in the gaming community. Ten years ago, the lead up to a game was people excited for it mixed with reasonable doubts. Now it's an extremely vocal hate brigade going off about how-

1. The franchise is ruined forever.
2. The genre is dead.
3. The developer is dead.
4. The publisher is evil.
5. The game is the worst game ever made.

-and then if you're lucky you can find a few rational opinions.

It's getting really, really ridiculous. And something'll change eventually, I don't know if the negativity will reach critical mass and then change or if people will get some sense knocked into their heads, but it won't last forever.

Most likely it'll just be replaced by some other kind of negativity.

Anyway, don't be a shallow cuntbag, please.

I distinctly get the feeling that some people are just in the wrong fucking hobby, frankly; then again I'm going out of my way to find these things (sometimes) because I apparently need to justify my pretty-much-always positive opinion to myself.
Today, it's XCOM. I enjoy XCOM very much.
I've played the original, I enjoyed the original very much; no fucking ESSAYS on why I liked it and what I thought could be improved because my opinion is just better than everyone else's and meh meh meh not the orignal meh meh meh.

I do wonder why some people complain about 'the industry' when they pretty much refuse to play anything that's come out in the past 10 years.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I hate what the Internet has become. I also hate social networking. Social networking has seen the death of professionalism, respect among peers, and what little remained of common decency.

Besides, without the internet, I wouldn't have the Escapist, or Threadless, or...or...!

Many other awesome things.

I could live with that. I mean I could live the loss of those things, that is.

Is there something you couldn't live without?

Sure there is, but the Escapist and the Internet in general aren't among the things I can't live without. ...not that I'm agreeing that the Internet needs to be destroyed that is. Destroying it won't solve the problem.

That works.

I think, due to free will, it won't ever be "okay". It'll be good, & bad. Just like real life.

Yeah... I just wish I could encounter the good much more often.

I feel that way too. Negativity definitely outnumbers Positivity. I just remain optimistic & keep on looking, or more often then not, create the good myself. Every bit helps!

That's true. I'll try to keep that in mind. Thanks.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I hate what the Internet has become. I also hate social networking. Social networking has seen the death of professionalism, respect among peers, and what little remained of common decency.

Besides, without the internet, I wouldn't have the Escapist, or Threadless, or...or...!

Many other awesome things.

I could live with that. I mean I could live the loss of those things, that is.

Is there something you couldn't live without?

Sure there is, but the Escapist and the Internet in general aren't among the things I can't live without. ...not that I'm agreeing that the Internet needs to be destroyed that is. Destroying it won't solve the problem.

That works.

I think, due to free will, it won't ever be "okay". It'll be good, & bad. Just like real life.

Yeah... I just wish I could encounter the good much more often.

I feel that way too. Negativity definitely outnumbers Positivity. I just remain optimistic & keep on looking, or more often then not, create the good myself. Every bit helps!

That's true. I'll try to keep that in mind. Thanks.

If things are getting you down, you are more then welcome to message me if you want. I'm pretty good at cheering people up.

I might just take you up on that sometime.

 

[Reginald]

I, for one, love negativity, hate, and anger. You can't kill me, you can only make me dissipate temporarily.

 

[RaikuFA]

There's waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much negativity in the gaming community. Ten years ago, the lead up to a game was people excited for it mixed with reasonable doubts. Now it's an extremely vocal hate brigade going off about how-

1. The franchise is ruined forever.
2. The genre is dead.
3. The developer is dead.
4. The publisher is evil.
5. The game is the worst game ever made.

-and then if you're lucky you can find a few rational opinions.

It's getting really, really ridiculous. And something'll change eventually, I don't know if the negativity will reach critical mass and then change or if people will get some sense knocked into their heads, but it won't last forever.

Most likely it'll just be replaced by some other kind of negativity.

Anyway, don't be a shallow cuntbag, please.

I'm going my best not too, kinda hard though. It's just so discouraging to support this community when said community would send me up the river in a second just because I'm not doing exactly everything everyone else does.

 

[Wolf In A Bear Suit]

To be honest the recent controversy with Amanda Todd has made me want to Gangam style into North Korea. Last time I was this ashamed of the internet was KONY 2012, man did I get annoyed at that. The positives of the internet always outweigh the Keyboard warriors, idiots, Facebook white Knights and 12 year old's calling me a fag. Man do some people abuse the cloak of anonymity.

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

Fuuuuuuuuuck that.

The internet is a beautiful pile of shit and diamonds. The shit can form into the Mona Lisa and the diamonds can get lodged in your anus.

.......Cause that totally made sense.

Nevertheless, I love the internet for everything it is. Every part of it simply adds to the strange beauty.

Except for the ponies.

Come to think of it, let's nuke the whole net from orbit.

 

[Phlakes]

I've already posted in this thread, but screw it, there's one more important thing as far as games go.

People have apparently started ignoring the games themselves. Yeah, EA has all that DRM and DLC and whatever else, attached to fucking good games. 95% of what you get from them is wonderful, and then you call for their execution because that little 5% isn't exactly how you fucking want it.

Fuck.

Man.

 

[Ice Car]

You are only now starting to hate the internet?