Global Village Idiocy and the Inter-nitwits

I really love the internet... With the power of relatively complete and utter anonymity and irresponsible freedom of speech, it allows a person to do a variety of things... One of these things happens to be being a complete *insert all forms of profane and deregatory adjectives and words* and getaway with it... And recent events have proved me correct with the aforementioned observation.

Case #1: I'm pretty much sure that almost everyone who logs on to the internet have heard of the mushroom network site known as facebook. Now, facebook has a variety of online applications and groups to make sure that things remain interesting. Now there's this game called street racing... yada, yada, yada (you get my drift dear reader)... In the game of street racing, a player can invite other players to be part of their crews/teams. What does that have to do with me? Let's just say that I approached this certain fellow with the words "Hi, can I join your crew? Sorry if I raced against some of your crew members." Bloody nice of me to ask politely, right?

Guess what? The poor bloke replied to me by saying "Don't be such a creep. What do I care who you hit?" and then proceeded to slag the living crap out of my level 15 character by using his level 146 character to further drive his point. I checked his profile and lo and behold... now wonder he's so cocky... he's living in some faraway and obscure european country and he's a genuine ass to everyone or the majority who's not from that country, knowing that they won't be able to harm him... Pretty gutsy for guy who does all of his racing inside a BROWSER-BASED COMPUTER GAME with no real challenge to skill and whatsoever... After reading his message to me, I can't help but wonder why some people are so (pardon the profanity) anal about a computer game... For the love of God ITS JUST A COMPUTER GAME...

Case #2: Now this one is much closer to home... In fact, its already happening here in our very own Metro Manila... The story is, in one of the gaming forums that I participate in from time to time, there is this fellow who goes by the username of Azure_kite... Just like the fellow in Case #1, he's a genuine cocky little ass behind the computer... messing up everyone who's just minding their own business... but when going face to face, he'll run faster than a bolt of lightning can strike one of those lightning arresters scattered all over Ayala Greenfield Estates... In of his posts, good old Azure_kite made fun of one of my buddies who goes by the username of "CHIBA"... Naturally, I stood up for my buddy whom he was happily backstabbing online and my latent talent for pure and unadulterated sarcasm came to the fore... unfortunately for him, he realized too late that I was being sarcastic with him the whole time and didn't get to reply to my rich, thick and creamy, sweet and sour sarcasm... Here is an excerpt of the "diplomatic" exchange of words that ensued between me and the "Azure_kite":

Azure_Kite:

i2 pmunta sa north pra maglaro ng tekken6 BR at sa trinoma

couples of batols sa SNL nka lban un c chib@ n tga OSF di msyado mlakas pnagtripan klng wahahahahah!! di kc mgaling sunug lng ang kya di mrunong lmaban ng ptas lkas ng pasikat any ways bka mmya maglaru me.

 

 

RB33:

Talaga? Paano kung nalaman mo na hindi ka nun sineryoso at nagtanggal lang ng stress mula sa TRABAHO si Chiba? Baka naman ghost lang niya ang kinalaban mo. kung sabagay, mukhang bago ka pa lang at nakakalaro mo ang ibang mga veteran na di na sineseryoso ang laro gaya mo ;]

 

 

Azure_Kite:

@RB33

yaw koh mkipag away. bka ikw lng bagu kc dati pku naglalaru nkta kna lhat ng veterano mag laru ksma nku dun sa mga veterano n un mga iba kybigan kpa maximum 1 naabutan kpa un TEAM PNUTS naabutan kpa ksma team OSF pti tofu yan mga top3 dati bka hnd moh alam. tsk3 LOL

 

 

RB33:

Cge, sinabi mo eh, naniniwala ako sa iyo. ;]

 

 

Azure_Kite:

yun nman pla e. kla koh di mko naintindihan e >:)

 

 

RB33:

Aba OO naiintindihan kita ng todo! Klarong-klaro! XD

 

After a while, one of the forum moderators noticed the exchange and the other insults that the good man Azure_Kite threw at the other forum members and promptly banned the blessed sonuvabitch from further participation in the forum with these parting words:

“kaya maraming gusto pumatay sau e... nde ngbabago asal tamo urong tite ka samin pero mga wangan pipz inaastahan mo pa rin... kaya ka rin paslangin ng mga yan tsong mag ingat ingat ka sa mga binibitawan mong salita”

Unfortunately, Azure_Kite (under a different name) showed up in another forum that I frequent to more often and is now poised to bring in more trouble... Sounds like a lot of bloody fun...

Now, I may be a bit too harsh on the examples that I've mentioned in the two cases that I presented... For all we know, they were abused children... XD

Then again, when jerks know that people cannot retaliate to them directly and for as long as they hide behind a computer, they will always strike with the illusion of relative impunity and diety-like cockiness just because they are behind a computer... and from there, they begin their glorious transformation into the global village idiots and the inter-nitwits...

Geez... ==;