Why the Hate?

[Macgyvercas]

To quote a great man:

"Because people are shit."

It's that nature of humanity my friend.

Which great man? Sounds familiar, like something Bill Hicks said.

George Carlin?
And I don't hate IT , I hate the people that like IT.

No guys, Yahtzee said it in relation to why he doesn't play Multiplayer games.

Actually, he said in his first E3 video to explain why Silent Hill: Shattered Memories would most likely be bad.

 

[The Diabolical Biz]

To quote a great man:

"Because people are shit."

It's that nature of humanity my friend.

Which great man? Sounds familiar, like something Bill Hicks said.

Nah, not really. For all that Hicks was angry at people, and their stupidity, he also seemed to have so much hope. He genuinely believed we could be better, if only we'd pull our collective heads out of arses long enough to see it. Simply labelling everyone as 'shit' seems way too heavy handed, look-at-me-look-at-me-I'm-such-a-goth for Hicks.

I miss him

Fair enough. Although that's not the line he takes in a clip I saw the other day. I believe it's under the name 'people suck' on Youtube.

But I completely agree with you.

Yeah, there was a lot of that stuff too. Honestly, I think the problem was that people just didn't live up to his expectations. I can imagine Jesus or whoever feeling the same way: you dispense wisdom, try to encourage people to be better, and nothing really changes.

It always seemed to me that a lot of his anger came from wanting a better world, and being fairly certain that it would never happen.

Or maybe I'm being being a complete art-school wanker, and putting far too much thought into it?

Yup. He was a real philosopher. And in all honesty I find reading into things that deeply kinda fun XD I recently did a poetry comparison essay, and I'm pretty sure I read far further into it than the authors ever intended...

Top mark though

 

[Billion Backs]

Hate is the driving force of progress and most things awesome.

If people didn't hate, say, Christianity, we wouldn't have much metal music. For all my anti-theistic feelings (and they're pretty aggressive) I can't thank religion more for making the world less shit through people who hate said religion enough to change things.

And I really love the "immature" excuse people love to throw around. It's just like the whole "troll" thing. Meaningless, and for the most part used by people who can't oppose someone without thinking up an irrefutable claim and pulling it out of their ass.

Hate on, embrace destruction, break the norms. Anything is better then some fake happy little world.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

You got me dude, but I'll tell you one thing; it drives me CRAZY!!

 

[Billion Backs]

I hate things. You hate things. Everyone hates something. I don't know why exactly, but it's what we do. Anyone who claims not to hate something is either Mother Teresa or a bloody liar.

The internet is an easy place to express that hate. Anonimity, audience etc etc.

Although it's not like it only happens on the internet. Next time you have the opportunity, listen in on two people having a conversation. Before long they will be talking about something they hate. It could be thier their job, their boss, their friend's boyfriend, the weather, politics, politicians, lawyers, cops... whatever. We all hate something.

I agree with what ya say... Although comparison to Mother Teresa is hardly necessary.

She wasn't exactly a saint a lot of people - statistically, Christians - would want you to believe. Obsessed with suffering, certain shady business, and all that.

 

[CouchCommando]

coming from a family where the dominant member was a narscist of the highest order, I would say its just human nature, until I actually got out of that environment and realised what a tool my parent was I thought it was perfectly natural to sit down at the end of the day and recite an entire litany of what you hate and dislike about all those around you laying blame on others and even inventing things just so you don't have to look upon yourself and seek to change for the better. Says a lot about the broader community doesn't it.

 

[Adzma]

To quote a great man:

"Because people are shit."

It's that nature of humanity my friend.

Which great man? Sounds familiar, like something Bill Hicks said.

George Carlin?
And I don't hate IT , I hate the people that like IT.

No guys, Yahtzee said it in relation to why he doesn't play Multiplayer games.

Actually, he said in his first E3 video to explain why Silent Hill: Shattered Memories would most likely be bad.

Yeah I knew he had said it in one of his videos but I couldn't remember which one. However it was in Extra Punctuation [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extra-punctuation/6832-Extra-Punctuation-On-Multiplayer.2] as a reason to not play multiplayer, something I wholeheartedly agree with.

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

in their defense, that guy's cry sounds really.... interesting.

 

[Guy32]

Oh my god, you're right! People on the internet actually are assholes!