Poll: Do you think Escapist users try to be too edgy?

[JimmerDunda]

Recently I kinda noticed that a lot of users here like to act mellow-dramatic over the silliest reasons and on the internet at that. Some also seem to denounce things that are more mainstream mainly because it will make them "anti-conformist" or they are above it.

I kinda notice this attitude from time to time, not everyone but some of the more arrogant users. But anyways lets have you at it. What do you think?

 

[Sir Kemper]

Haven't really noticed it myself. I have noticed a slight favor towar indie bands from some user's, but that seems more like personal taste.

Also i voted the third option.


and OP's avatar is lol.

 

[grimsprice]

A psychologist would have a better word for it, but its basically "mob mentality". The pack effect. People tend to mirror the traits of the crowd they're with. Its deeply rooted in our brains as a social species.

 

[The Madman]

Unless you hate everything that isn't an obscure niche product, you're a drooling fool who has no right to call himself a 'gamer'...

Or so I've been told. Frankly I think it's silly, but hardly surprising. Music, film and book lovers do the same thing, the music industry in particular is renown for it with 'indie band cred' and all that crap.

Apparently once more than a dozen people enjoy something, it magically ceases to be good!

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

Maybe it is not that they want to act non-conformist, but because, perhaps, they are non-conformist.
Have you seen the music I listen to? The song I most in a lot of music threads?
That is definitely not normal around here.
With anonymity, people can say what they really think...

 

[Samurai Goomba]

Yes. Absolutely.

At least be a big enough man to be the little man you are. I apply this to myself as well. Or at least I can claim to anonymously on the Internet.

At some point refusing to conform to anything becomes a sort of conformity in itself. If you don't see how this works then you're probably part of this particular problem. Just sayin'.

 

[ace_of_something]

It's because a vast population of the users are teenagers.
Duh.

edit: To elaborate; teens and early 20's is when an adult identity is being established and many want to be 'especial' (this is pronounced with a weird fakey spanish accent) easiest way to be special is by trying to not be part of the crowd. The irony being that this puts you in another crowd of like-minded individuals.

 

[Bat Vader]

I have not really noticed to be honest. Some people will denounce things to be anti-conformist but I find that to be silly. If they actually don't like it than that is cool, they don't like it. But to not like something mainstream to just appear anti-conformist is just silly in my opinion.

 

[Kollega]

It's because a vast population of the users are teenagers.
Duh.

Well, firstly this.

Secondly, i don't get how "non-conformism" can be called that when there are standards declaring what is "non-conformist". I don't claim to be "100% rebel", i'm just using whatever works. But i digress.

And most importantly, third part: a lot of people here are elitists, with all that talk about being "the only intellegent site on the Internet" (FALSE) and similar things. If you ask me, that's the real problem, as opposed to just "being edgy".

 

[Ophiuchus]

Some of them certainly do. Bit silly if you ask me, but there's always gonna be people like that in every community so I just tend to ignore it.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

I think the vast majority are somewhat restrained when expressing their fanboy/nerd rage. I said no because I'm an optimist.

 

[Pegghead]

In my time here that is one of the things I have pondered and pondered. Okay being a supporter of communism (You don't live in china my friend, you are not a communist) it's a bit out there but most people have their reasons and act very mellow about it (I.e no flaming anyone who's opposed to it), Atheist, that's fine I mean you don't have to be religious and as long as you play it live and let live like the majority of users here then you're fine. But when a thread asks if you have beliefs that could be considered abnormal by the standards of society (In fact not even that, half the time they'll pull this crap right out of their ass when it has nothing to do with the threads topic for some...un-fathomable reason) and your list proudly goes on for paragraph after paragraph with hateful crap like being a narcissistic fascist communist sadist with misanthropic views who can't stand children because they're apparently all worshippers of God (Often pronouncing God in the same way they would pronounce short stack and in an incredibly insulting and ignorant way) they really just need a good smack to the face and be reminded of what they should be grateful and not selfish for.

Honestly whenever I see people like this (That was a bit of an exxageration but all those traits I listed above are things I have seen here in the context I listed above) I think "Maybe they're a war refugee or a rape victim or they were GENUINELY abused in their youth, that would give them valid reasons to post views like that because they have experienced suffering I may never understand" so I look on their profile or try to recall past threads they've posted in and half the time it's just some spoiled brat of a teenager who wants nothing more than to be a rebel or a non-comformist.

But the folks are good 'round here, most people subscribe to the good old live and let live philosophy so these problems aren't too major, thanks for bringing it up though because in recent times it's started to get real bad.

 

[Spinozaad]

Yes.

Although the sweet implications of the majority agreeing with the charged question are amusing.

 

[Angerwing]

I HATE the people saying "I hate humanity and I think everyone should be exterminated." I think it's the most immature things that people say, and when someone says it they are permanently marked down in my mind as an immature, idiotic dick.

With me, I act how I want to act, and behave how I want to behave. I like music that sounds good to me, and I play games that I find fun. I'm not a conformist. If my tastes are mainstream, then that means my tastes conform to the majority, but by no means am I a conformist. I'm secure enough in who I am to not have to make myself stand out. I'm happy being one in a faceless mass, because I identify myself by how I think and feel, not by what I wear and what I like.

/rant

I hate people who are deliberate non-conformists. If your tastes are odd or obscure, good for you, but don't like things because they're not popular, or vice versa.

 

[rezboyjoey]

Well you can't blame people for being a little violent when it comes to defending their personal taste. When its one guy in a room of 500 who prefers X to Y and the other 499 are all ganging up on him telling him he is wrong you can't blame him for lashing out at them. Think cornered racoon.

On the other hand people who be different just to be different piss me off. They're nothing but prima donnas who want to be special and they should go be special somewhere else because this is the internet and damn it we conform here.

I prefer to go the chaotic neutral approach to all this and just like what I think is good. If its mainstream, great. If its not, I don't really care. I like what I like because I like it, not because Gamespot gave it a 9.5/10.

 

[wordsmith]

In my time here that is one of the things I have pondered and pondered. Okay being a supporter of communism (You don't live in china my friend, you are not a communist)

Off topic slightly, but China is a Socialist community...

Well you can't blame people for being a little violent when it comes to defending their personal taste. When its one guy in a room of 500 who prefers X to Y and the other 499 are all ganging up on him telling him he is wrong you can't blame him for lashing out at them. Think cornered racoon.

I beg to differ. In a room of with 499 people who disagree with you, the best thing to do is either leave the room or keep your view to yourself. There's probably a reason why you're the only one who fields a certain view, and it's probably not because you're such a groundbreaking genius that no-one else has ever thought about it before...

 

[Angerwing]

But when a thread asks if you have beliefs that could be considered abnormal by the standards of society (In fact not even that, half the time they'll pull this crap right out of their ass when it has nothing to do with the threads topic for some...un-fathomable reason) and your list proudly goes on for paragraph after paragraph with hateful crap like being a narcissistic fascist communist sadist with misanthropic views who can't stand children because they're apparently all worshippers of God.

A thousand times this. Specifically the 'misanthropic' part, but generally the whole thing. I'm an atheist, just so you know. My mother and step-father are heavy Christians, but they respect my views and I respect theirs. They say grace and hold hands around the table before a meal, and I just sit there, waiting so I don't start the dinner they prepared before them (my choice). I don't mind them expressing their views, and they don't mind my lack of expression. I forgot where I was going with this, but I think I'll leave it here anyway.

 

[Weaver]

The only reason I hate something is if I genuinely don't like it.