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I am the same offline and online. I am, however, beyond terrible over the phone. For some reason, it is hard for me to talk over the phone and be comprehensive. It also doesn't help I naturally sound like a freaking anime charactar so people misjudge my age and/or my intelligience level frequently.
Fighting the good fight, sir, Viva Pinata is awesome.Sasquatch99 said:
I don't really think I can judge the difference between my online and offline personalities since there's an obvious bias to consider. I swear more offline, especially in public. That's all I can tell.
You can't be all bad, you've got my fav bleach character as your pic.Marcosn said:
I'm about the same really. Offline I don't give a fuck if I offend you when I'm only offering my opinion. Online, I don't give a fuck if I offend you when I'm only offering my opinion.
Well my Avatar is me, so thats that bit over with.
I think im pretty much the same personality wise too.
I think im pretty much the same personality wise too.
I try and act with extra sanity online. It usually helps and keeps everyone in the game. I don't usually get irritated by most people, though I will quit if my teammate is a 10 year old who says "Fuck" in every single sentence.
I'm about the same to people online as in real life, but my thoughts are better organized because I can revise before I hit "post".
I'm pretty much the same person, I just talk a lot more shit in real life. Not starting arguments and stuff, just talking stupid shit.
I tend to win more arguments offline.
Not because I am right more often offline than on, but because, simply put, nothing you say is going to influence someone's opinion on the Internet. The Internet is not a place to disseminate or proselytize, and it never will be. It is simply a place ti identify people who agree or disagree with you. This is why I have a rule against replying more than twice in any online 'debate.'
In real life, however, the other person is forced to actually look into my eyes and choose whether to hold fast to a retarded and indefensible position or admit that I wouldn't have bothered to raise the issue, being in no way a standoffish or disagreeable person, unless I was already totally safeguarded by my own argument's unassailable correctness.
And most people in real life realize that there is something palpable to be lost by intentionally making a braying jackass of themselves (unless you have a television career *zing*), whereas online there is no such impulsion.
It isn't that the place isn't populated with the same immediately post-pubescent born-again socialists, ash-skinned knife collectors with voices rusty from disuse, and unemployed twentysomething-going-on-thirtysomething trackball jockeys posting from 123 Basement Boulevard. It's that these people have been taught the hard way that delivering the Judge-to-Billy-Madison speech in response to the Busey-esque insanity that so appallingly often warrants it has been disallowed with prejudice.
It's a tradeoff. You don't have to see anyone post Goatse, but you don't get to, either. Oh well.
Not because I am right more often offline than on, but because, simply put, nothing you say is going to influence someone's opinion on the Internet. The Internet is not a place to disseminate or proselytize, and it never will be. It is simply a place ti identify people who agree or disagree with you. This is why I have a rule against replying more than twice in any online 'debate.'
In real life, however, the other person is forced to actually look into my eyes and choose whether to hold fast to a retarded and indefensible position or admit that I wouldn't have bothered to raise the issue, being in no way a standoffish or disagreeable person, unless I was already totally safeguarded by my own argument's unassailable correctness.
And most people in real life realize that there is something palpable to be lost by intentionally making a braying jackass of themselves (unless you have a television career *zing*), whereas online there is no such impulsion.
They probably still think you're wrong, and for the same reason. But we all know The Escapist plays fast and loose with the banhammer. The Escapist forums are relatively peaceful for the same reason that a prison yard is most often a peaceful place.Pegghead said:
It isn't that the place isn't populated with the same immediately post-pubescent born-again socialists, ash-skinned knife collectors with voices rusty from disuse, and unemployed twentysomething-going-on-thirtysomething trackball jockeys posting from 123 Basement Boulevard. It's that these people have been taught the hard way that delivering the Judge-to-Billy-Madison speech in response to the Busey-esque insanity that so appallingly often warrants it has been disallowed with prejudice.
It's a tradeoff. You don't have to see anyone post Goatse, but you don't get to, either. Oh well.
