Recently, for "lulz" (defined as: shit griefers -- defined as: the individuals who used to be the smelly teenage idiots too stupid to make it through school who spent their time shouting profanity at passing cars from the corner thinking it made them look cool/funny/smarter-than-you -- think is funny), some Grade-A dumbasses flooded the forums at a help-site for epileptics and put up seizure-inducing images.
I've long thought that griefer = sociopath. And I'd say the evidence is pretty clear that connection is valid. These are folks who injure and harass -- emotionally and physically -- others for fun and personal satisfaction without a hint of conscience. They engage in the harassment of others and think it is funny and no big deal to cause pain and suffering for kicks.
This is what modern bullies in the internet age are made of. They don't go out and torture small animals anymore -- or they probably still do, but they have more options now -- now they torture other people from anonymous safety, thumbing their noses at a society that refuses to do anything about them or admit these behaviors are a problem (if not a disease).
Of course, not every time you feel bad or are injured because of what someone else did or said equals bullying, but I think willfully attempting to induce painful and terrifying -- even life-threatening -- epileptic seizures in unsuspecting people for a laugh is both unquestionably bullying and indefensible.
Lock them up or drown them for the good of the human race.
Or, as Jason suggests, bricks and baseball bats.
Then lobotomize and utilize as cheap workforce.
It's the humane solution.
Autumn Winds
10 April 2008 @ 04:25 pm
What Bullies Think Is Funny
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23 October 2005 @ 07:33 pm
Two Decades Later...
So, I finally finished a game I started eighteen years ago: Final Fantasy I. Yep, I defeated Chaos earlier tonight. I almost didn't finish it this time, either. A month or two ago I stopped at the same place I had before: outside the Chaos shrine, right before going in to beat the final boss.
I don't recall why I stopped there that time (it was 18 years ago!). This time it was that I'd been playing it so long I'd started to get sick of it -- and the idea of going through the new levels in the "Dawn of Souls" remake and clearing each of them felt mind-numbing -- so I decided to put it away for a few days. Other things got in the way of having much time on the computer for the next couple months, so I never did get back to it.
Today, however, I thought: "Hell, why not? I've got to finish it sometime! And I don't want to have gotten this far AGAIN without having anything to show for it. Ok, let's finish it; screw clearing out the Shrines."
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I don't recall why I stopped there that time (it was 18 years ago!). This time it was that I'd been playing it so long I'd started to get sick of it -- and the idea of going through the new levels in the "Dawn of Souls" remake and clearing each of them felt mind-numbing -- so I decided to put it away for a few days. Other things got in the way of having much time on the computer for the next couple months, so I never did get back to it.
Today, however, I thought: "Hell, why not? I've got to finish it sometime! And I don't want to have gotten this far AGAIN without having anything to show for it. Ok, let's finish it; screw clearing out the Shrines."
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