I'm starting to hate the internet

[KoudelkaMorgan]

I love the EO games, they are practically the only good RPGs left. At least the dungeon crawler type. I haven't played Grimrock, because I don't like playing games on my PC aside from Minecraft and PWI.

I'm currently replaying EO2, and as always I'm going round and round deciding my party make up. First time through I used Ronin, Protector, War Magus, Gunner, Survivalist.

This time I'm using Ronin, Dark Huntress, Troubadour, Gunner, Medic. Might swap the gunner for a Beast if I can remember if they suck or not.

Much like having a Protector I have this idea that I NEED a tank, even if they contribute hardly anything 90% of the game.

Seriously don't know wtf I was thinking/how in the hell I managed with no Medic the first run. Revive is a pretty essential skill, and Patch up is great.

Overall I think I preferred EO2 to EO3 because the dual class system kinda ruined the balance and made some classes only useful with the right sub class and not in their own right. Plus I chose wrong and ended up with the android class instead of the other one. Idk if its good, but I DO know that the android sucks. Its very gimmicky and you barely have any TP to do anything.

Addressing you new found hatred of the internet, which I assume would be taken as the real topic by most, I'm surprised you didn't feel that way sooner.

Assuming that you have been online more than a week, that is.

Its a mixed blessing. You can learn anything you need to know about anything, find just about anything from all media in any format from any place and time you can think of practically.

You also unfortunately have to endure opinions that dissent from your own (easily done assuming you aren't a smartass) and the ones that are so lacking in intelligence that they are surely made by beings that are mirroring our own evolution in reverse. Examples of such raw ignorance and caustic hatred for all things rational in the multiverse, that you can't help but feel a little violated for having stumbled into their lair whilst lured in by the promise of information and its dissemination, and panic at the thought that these THINGS are walking among us unheeded and unmolested.

Personally I love the internet, and am fully aware that since I was first exposed to it in 1995 that it has destroyed me on some very basic level.

 

[DrunkOnEstus]

That law about 90% of everything being crap? I really hate to say it but it may apply to humanity itself and not just its creations. The small sub-sample of people in your city in RL reminds you sometimes that sometimes people are off, a dick, a liar, or maybe sometimes completely insane with thieving or violent motivations. The internet comprises the whole planet, so you get to see EVERYONE if you try, with the added bonus of anonymity and no fear of repercussion.

This can be very bad if you're willing to subject yourself to it. If I wanted to hang out with geniuses in RL, I'd find out where the guys at NASA go when they aren't working. If I want to hang out with people who aren't dicks on the internet, I stay around here for the most part. The nihilistic thinking of my formative years is pretty much gone as I see how positive an impact rules can have.

I mean, you're talking about hating the internet with us, and we're the internet (and those other people are in the 90% and lack the mental faculties to actually play EO). I wouldn't destroy it as much as I wouldn't destroy the world (eh...hmm.) Besides, the cookie on offer is truly and actually my favorite cookie in the world. Fresh batch, slight melting of the kiss after placement? You may have a soldier, I'm petty.

 

[Legion]

If you want to hate gamers as well as the internet go to the BSN (Bioware Social Network AKA their official forums). The tidal wave of stupidity will make you consider another hobby.

A recent thread suggested that Bioware should make origin stories for Dragon Age 3, just like they did with Dragon Age: Origins.

They suggested they do it as DLC.

 

[BreakfastMan]

Wait, what? How could an new release in an obscure as hell, super-hard JRPG series for portable consoles be ruining the industry? I mean, to ruin the industry, wouldn't it first need to actually have an effect on it? What is this, I don't even...

OT: I hate the internet... Sometimes. It gives me nice things and also gives me pain. We got a love-hate relationship going, the internet and me. We frequently fight and insult each other, but then immediately make up.

 

[repeating integers]

I'd quite like to see some of these comments, OP. They sound amusing.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Maybe you should stop reading the comments if you don't like them?

/thread.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

Lies. I have all the cookies. You think you have cookies, but you don't; they're perfect replicas of cookies.

But besides that, no. The internet is far FAR too useful for me to help you destroy it over a few questionable opinions.

 

[manic_depressive13]

Yes. I want to destroy the largest and most accessible resource of free knowledge available because some people on it have opinions on games that differ from mine.

 

[Rawne1980]

You leave the internet alone.

It is the place I come to so I can mock hundreds of people at once for being numb. Where else could we gather the brainless masses so we can monitor them and laugh at their stupidity?

 

[Angie7F]

If you roll with the dogs...

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I don't hate the internet...the comments some people make on it however...

 

[Vault101]

That law about 90% of everything being crap? I really hate to say it but it may apply to humanity itself.

oh come on now....thats a little dramatic I actually dont think the rest of the internet is as bad as people make it out to be...

yes theres a lot of retardedness but honestly I'm not sure I buy the Idea that everyone is just a troll waiting to dive into the sea of anonymity


I mean trolling "really" isnt that fun or funny

 

[RaikuFA]

Wait, what? How could an new release in an obscure as hell, super-hard JRPG series for portable consoles be ruining the industry? I mean, to ruin the industry, wouldn't it first need to actually have an effect on it? What is this, I don't even...

OT: I hate the internet... Sometimes. It gives me nice things and also gives me pain. We got a love-hate relationship going, the internet and me. We frequently fight and insult each other, but then immediately make up.

Cause we buy it, you're letting the Rainfall people win and that should never happen. Plus, you buy any game from Japan(espesially if you had to campain for it.) you're entitled, whiny and don't deserve to play games.

Go on Kotaku, Destructoid, Joystiq practically anywhere and those comments(with Kotaku you'll see it in the article itself) flood the site

 

[DrunkOnEstus]

That law about 90% of everything being crap? I really hate to say it but it may apply to humanity itself.

oh come on now....thats a little dramatic I actually dont think the rest of the internet is as bad as people make it out to be...

yes theres a lot of retardedness but honestly I'm not sure I buy the Idea that everyone is just a troll waiting to dive into the sea of anonymity


I mean trolling "really" isnt that fun or funny

I can't at all argue with the dramatic part, thinking back I'd lower that percentage but I guess I was thinking I'd be smart and apply a law somewhere. I don't remember posting this so much, but I see why it happened.

a)I had just finished reading several insightful and knowledgeable articles elsewhere on the internet, and every time I read the comments hoping for intelligent rebuttal or an expansion on the ideas presented it was just a sea of trolling, pointless angry threats or insults, or other crap not worth it. This happens so damn often, many of us know to not even see what people think under the youtube video.

b) It was like 4 A.M and I should have been in bed hours prior. Note to self: If you're tired and pissed off about work tomorrow and that you only get a nap really...stick to the lurking perhaps and try not to say anything : )

 

[neverarine]

lol kotaku

the internate without hate isnt the internet anymore so lol glad you've decided to fully become part of the system now ;D

 

[Overusedname]

You hate the real world and the net.
THERE IS NO SAFE HAVEN FOR YOU NOW.
I recommend going to a dessert island, it'll take a lot less effort than destroying the internet that or tolerate everyone.

HAVE YOU GONE MAD?

I suggest investing in space colonies.

 

[Monster_user]

Also, after its destroyed, we should reshape it.

But I like it in its current state!

I'm not sure I do. Facebook, Twitter, etc, all seem to be taking over. Hulu just got rid of their discussion forum to replace it with Facebook, Steam is changing theirs.

I don't care to bother my good friends, or worse my family, with any discussion I get involved in. Religious and political discussions are likely to drive wedges where they need not be. Discussions about technology, or other highly specialized fields will likely annoy those who cannot follow the discussions. Both of these would make it less likely they will notice the posts I actually want them to read.

I don't remember posting this so much, but I see why it happened.

a)I had just finished reading several insightful and knowledgeable articles elsewhere on the internet, and every time I read the comments hoping for intelligent rebuttal or an expansion on the ideas presented it was just a sea of trolling, pointless angry threats or insults, or other crap not worth it. This happens so damn often, many of us know to not even see what people think under the youtube video.

That is my other concern about the current internet. It seems to be moving more an more towards "Facebook", which is a haven for such nonsense as the above. Although mostly anonymous, forums such as these seem to encourage actual debate better than Facebook. Perhaps it is because having to register means you actually feel you have something important to contribute to the conversation. Low content rules help also,...

 

[AlphaLackey]

The internet is definitely a more brutish form of communication than face-to-face. The anonymity of the modern internet enables a large number of people to be the sociopath they simply could not be in real life.

 

[BreakfastMan]

Wait, what? How could an new release in an obscure as hell, super-hard JRPG series for portable consoles be ruining the industry? I mean, to ruin the industry, wouldn't it first need to actually have an effect on it? What is this, I don't even...

OT: I hate the internet... Sometimes. It gives me nice things and also gives me pain. We got a love-hate relationship going, the internet and me. We frequently fight and insult each other, but then immediately make up.

Cause we buy it, you're letting the Rainfall people win and that should never happen. Plus, you buy any game from Japan(espesially if you had to campain for it.) you're entitled, whiny and don't deserve to play games.

Go on Kotaku, Destructoid, Joystiq practically anywhere and those comments(with Kotaku you'll see it in the article itself) flood the site

Well 1: I don't even know why letting those who support Project Rainfall win would be a bad thing (more games, what is wrong with that?), 2: This game was not even part of P:R, as far as I know, and 3: Wow, those are really crappy, stupid arguments. :\ At least you have here, though, amirite?