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Computer over. Virus = very yes
Computer over. Virus = very yes
Ask him if he would like to take a trip to Ireland to celebrate his graduation. I’m sure he won’t be starting work immediately, but if he already has a job it’s an easy excuse for at least a 2 week vacation. You could offer to show him around where you live and all the cool spots. Introduce him to your friends and do some of the things you all usually do for fun. Then you can take a trip to the touristy spots, which is conveniently a great excuse to get a room for night in the city, ya know, to make sure you have enough time to see everything and not worry about the travel time and such. Then for the end of the trip, just spend the time relaxing, and hanging out together. Give yourselves the time to get comfortable doing the day to day routine, give him a chance to experience what regular life in Ireland might be if he were to stay a bit longer.
I think it’s just human nature to get enjoyment at making other people upset. It comes from a lack of empathy, understanding, and perspective.
When I was young, my cousin and I would hop into randomly chosen public chatrooms on MSN, or Yahoo, and just start typing stupid messages. We’d spam the chat with constans messages of “booger” or “poopy fart” and watch people get annoyed with us. Sometimes we’d pick a random message from someone and call them out telling them “hey {username}, shut up stupid.” The whole chatroom would get mad and tell us to leave, or to stop, and that made us keep doing it more. For a good half hour to 45 min, the entire chatroom was having a bad time except us, who were laughing out heads off at how mad they got and how compeley powerless they were to stop us.
We were also 10.
We haven’t experienced how annoying and frustrating that actually is. We didn’t understand or even care just how disruptive we were being, nor did we care about our contribution to making the space a bad space to be in. We, as children, didn’t have the empathy, compassion, or perspective of experience to care about that, and were just reveling in the attention and the power to force a group of strangers to focus on us and not what they originally wanted to.
Some people eventually develop empathy, self awareness, gain perspective on the world, or otherwise come to understand how immature these acts areof getting joy at being annoying, and stop. Other people don’t. The internet is home to people in all different stages of their life’s journey, and a lot of them haven’t reached that point yet.
Some troll because they’re immature. Some do it because they actively dislike a community and pettily get joy at annoying them. Some people just like the attention. People are complicated and weird, and often hard to understand. There is just one thing that will always be true:
As long as people exists, so too will trolls.
I did it once, to prove a point.
I think we’re all confused by the question.
Pretty similar to what’s going on with Twitter right now.
I don’t even want to know what the crossover of Helldivers 2 and Cocomelon would be.
Ugh I just thought of it:
Democracy. Democracy. It’s time to spread democracy.
Yes, yes, yes, I like to spread democracy.
Good. Good. Democracy’s good for you.
Yes, yes, yes, I like it woo.
In the end, nothing. I had a good solid 9 months of a job I loved, with decent enough pay. But then tanks to corporate execs laid off the entire IT team and outsourced it to a staffing company and reduced the size of the team from 100+ to about 8.
I’m still there because I still need the pay, but now it’s just like every other garbage corporate job out there. Miserable and soul sucking.
What are you on about?
I actually liked .hack//sign
He did have that ‘need to be the center of attention’ attitude that I didn’t like. I ignored it because everyone in the group seemed to just accept it. I guess that was the problem.
I totally agree. There were some moments where I felt he was a little off, but ignored them because I wasn’t familiar with the group dynamic. Also got some real sketch vibes from Brian Foster, and wasn’t surprised to find out he was a slime ball pile of shit. The way the crew responded to his style of “humor” really made me feel like they weren’t super comfortable with him.
I think it’s a mindflyer parasite. If you hear it talking to you, make sure not to listen.
They actually didn’t come with memory cards. Sony back then was just as money hungry as they are now. You had to buy them separately. They were around $20 or $25 for a Sony branded one, but you could get 3rd party ones for cheaper.
Man, I can’t wait until the day I don’t exist anymore. My existential crisis is that I’m currently forced into existing.
Any position in a corporation other than executive.
Yeah, but over $1k is less than $6K. So… Worth it?
Oh man, my friend bought that game and has been trying to get us to play it, but I had twins, and have not more time for board games. It looked fun though
It’s great for me. I started there and it’s still good. The admin seems cool too, staying on top of updates and addressing issues that pop up.
Guy wouldn’t know majesty if it bit him in the face!
-that happened once