If you're on my friends list, you're exempted from this, but...
I am finding myself highly unimpressed with the general populace of SG lately. Maybe it's just the natural curse of the internet message board phenomenon, but the attitudes and expressions of opinion that make up this place just seem exceedingly average of late. Kind of like eavesdropping on a conversation happening outside of a Hot Topic; just predictably bland, clique-ish, and peppered with myopic hipster snark. And I'm not talking about the proverbial "nOObs," either. Too much exaggerated mediocrity being touted as greatness. Too little substance sealed in an excess of bright plastic packaging. Hostility and condescension masquerading as wit and enlightenment. Same old, same old.
Misanthropy? You're soaking in it.
(and, no, this is not my reaction to nobody watching The Wire.
Although that would count as another symptom of the malaise.)
I wish SG was made up of more people like those of you on my friends list and various assorted characters I do interact with. Then again, I also wish 51% of the world's population would mysteriously vanish forever to be replaced with dinosaurs and wookies, so like my grandma told me, I'll wish in one hand and shit in the other, and see which one fills up faster.
I miss home. I miss my friends. I want the best of both worlds, I want the absence of both evils, and I'll never understand why I should ever have to settle for less.
I am finding myself highly unimpressed with the general populace of SG lately. Maybe it's just the natural curse of the internet message board phenomenon, but the attitudes and expressions of opinion that make up this place just seem exceedingly average of late. Kind of like eavesdropping on a conversation happening outside of a Hot Topic; just predictably bland, clique-ish, and peppered with myopic hipster snark. And I'm not talking about the proverbial "nOObs," either. Too much exaggerated mediocrity being touted as greatness. Too little substance sealed in an excess of bright plastic packaging. Hostility and condescension masquerading as wit and enlightenment. Same old, same old.
Misanthropy? You're soaking in it.
(and, no, this is not my reaction to nobody watching The Wire.
Although that would count as another symptom of the malaise.)
I wish SG was made up of more people like those of you on my friends list and various assorted characters I do interact with. Then again, I also wish 51% of the world's population would mysteriously vanish forever to be replaced with dinosaurs and wookies, so like my grandma told me, I'll wish in one hand and shit in the other, and see which one fills up faster.
I miss home. I miss my friends. I want the best of both worlds, I want the absence of both evils, and I'll never understand why I should ever have to settle for less.
I miss home. I miss my friends. I want the best of both worlds, I want the absence of both evils, and I'll never understand why I should ever have to settle for less.
That was beautiful and tragic and telling and vague all at once. I love it and I hope I'm cool enough to not be one of the mediocre people you're talking about. I so want to steal ^^^ that and keep it for myself.
....predictably bland, clique-ish, and peppered with myopic hipster snark ..... Too much exaggerated mediocrity being touted as greatness. Too little substance sealed in an excess of bright plastic packaging. Hostility and condescension masquerading as wit and enlightenment....
this has to be one of the best sumaries of the internet I have ever read! I couldn't have put it better if I tried!
And to finalise:
Misanthropy?
You better beleive it!
J
btw, thanks for the cheers, things are looking better already! I'll fill you in when I gots a sec or two!
[edited b/c i can't typ]
[Edited on Mar 23, 2005 4:21PM]