This one's important! You want to fit in wherever you go, so always make sure you read and understand the rules of each forum you join. You want to know how to stay within the acceptable boundaries of posting so you don't get into trouble. For example, if a forum has a policy against using the word "Cranko", which is generally known to be the worst slur in the world, a person can use the word "cranky" instead. You always want to stay on the line of adherence and decency. As long as you know where the line is, you should never cross it. Even coming right up to the line multiple times doesn't constitute crossing it, and is therefore totally acceptable.
3.If you feel that you are being trolled, you are probably not being trolled.
This speaks for itself. If you read a post and think "Is this a troll?", you are almost certainly not being trolled. The reason doubt exists in your mind is because, deep down, you know that you're not being trolled. The world is full of billions of people with many different and opposing viewpoints. Seeing potentially insensitive comments about the Holocaust, genocide, racism and sexism may be perfectly natural for the people making them. Who are you to judge them? If you start to judge these people as "trolls", you open yourself up to be judged yourself, and you don't want that since that could draw negative attention to the awesome persona you created in Step 2.
2.Make an account that draws as much attention to yourself as possible.
Never use your face as an avatar. Your goal is to stay anonymous and build up an internet persona that's much cooler and desirable than your real life. If you're timid and have a hard time getting girls, make your account into the alpha male you've always wanted to be. Pick a username that sounds exciting, like "Gladiator724", "Lord Death Metallica", or "Dragonslayer Slash". If being an alpha male isn't your thing, you can always get attention by pretending to be female. Pick an avatar or a signature of a big-boobed anime chick (or both!), give yourself a name like "Kimi Chan", "Lady Gaea" or "Belza" and run with it. Your goal is never to give an accurate representation of yourself as a real life human: you must create a colorful persona that makes you forget how dull your real life is.
1.Only use the internet if you have strong opinions and are offended by other people with equally strong opinions. You want to be someone who is loud enough to proclaim your own views while at the same time being sensitive enough to wholly disregard the views of anyone else if they disagree with you.
For example, let's say you believe you're a Pikachu trapped inside the body of a human. This issue may be a major point that you build your sense of internet identity off of; however, other people may find this issue to be trivial or a problem thought up by a bored suburbanite with too much time on their hands. Both of you believe strongly in what you're typing, though neither of you will concede any points to the other side. This is how good internet debates get started because neither side will ever cave in, allowing you endless material for heated debate and mental turmoil. You want to stay offended as long as possible, so you want to get louder and more offended simultaneously. Remember, if you are someone who is reasonable and has balanced views, you should stay far away from the internet.
Toss up between Fallout 3 and Bioshock. Bioshock showed many skeptics that video games could tap into literature and create compelling, thought-provoking stories while still being fun and accessible. Fallout 3 has hundreds of hours of gameplay, characters can be customized dozens of different ways, and for fans of post-apocalyptic stuff, this game perfectly encapsulates the desperation and desolation of an irradiated wasteland. I've played both several times and will be playing them long into the future.
The set is a dud though it should be fun to draft.
This one's important! You want to fit in wherever you go, so always make sure you read and understand the rules of each forum you join. You want to know how to stay within the acceptable boundaries of posting so you don't get into trouble. For example, if a forum has a policy against using the word "Cranko", which is generally known to be the worst slur in the world, a person can use the word "cranky" instead. You always want to stay on the line of adherence and decency. As long as you know where the line is, you should never cross it. Even coming right up to the line multiple times doesn't constitute crossing it, and is therefore totally acceptable.
This speaks for itself. If you read a post and think "Is this a troll?", you are almost certainly not being trolled. The reason doubt exists in your mind is because, deep down, you know that you're not being trolled. The world is full of billions of people with many different and opposing viewpoints. Seeing potentially insensitive comments about the Holocaust, genocide, racism and sexism may be perfectly natural for the people making them. Who are you to judge them? If you start to judge these people as "trolls", you open yourself up to be judged yourself, and you don't want that since that could draw negative attention to the awesome persona you created in Step 2.
Never use your face as an avatar. Your goal is to stay anonymous and build up an internet persona that's much cooler and desirable than your real life. If you're timid and have a hard time getting girls, make your account into the alpha male you've always wanted to be. Pick a username that sounds exciting, like "Gladiator724", "Lord Death Metallica", or "Dragonslayer Slash". If being an alpha male isn't your thing, you can always get attention by pretending to be female. Pick an avatar or a signature of a big-boobed anime chick (or both!), give yourself a name like "Kimi Chan", "Lady Gaea" or "Belza" and run with it. Your goal is never to give an accurate representation of yourself as a real life human: you must create a colorful persona that makes you forget how dull your real life is.
For example, let's say you believe you're a Pikachu trapped inside the body of a human. This issue may be a major point that you build your sense of internet identity off of; however, other people may find this issue to be trivial or a problem thought up by a bored suburbanite with too much time on their hands. Both of you believe strongly in what you're typing, though neither of you will concede any points to the other side. This is how good internet debates get started because neither side will ever cave in, allowing you endless material for heated debate and mental turmoil. You want to stay offended as long as possible, so you want to get louder and more offended simultaneously. Remember, if you are someone who is reasonable and has balanced views, you should stay far away from the internet.
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I promise I won't bring back any pleasant things. I'm content to leave the status quo where it is.