Posted by doped @ 07:28 CST, 27 January 2014 - iMsg
Am i the only one finding joy in having "srs internets conversations" with random semi-intelligent(i know they dont go on the same page, but sometime you catch those who reply with eager and passion or whatever) ppl on the youtube comments?
Do I lack other meaningful social interaction, or am I scared in some way to enjoy that shitty drama??
too serious for esr? Do i need yt comment addiction support forum for that?
Edited by doped at 07:29 CST, 27 January 2014 - 3448 Hits
I'm not sure i agree with that. reality tv worsens your brain, then again, its not a conversation(i still dont get why ppl like to watch that, then again, i might do alot of shit ppl dont understand either.)
The probability of finding smart or stupid people either on the internet or at work, for instance, always correlate to the total amount of smart and stupid people in the world.
But there are places where you will find more stupid people than smart ones and the other way around. The internet being a place for the first group because of anonymity and the fact, that even if you post under your real name and your address you still probably are hundreds or even thousands of miles away from the people you are arguing with. A university on the other hand is more of a place for the second group (not saying there are no dumbfucks in a university, there certainly are) just because it in general is a place for (complex) knowledge and therefor not many stupid people will be there for too long.
I agree YouTube isn't exactly the best place to look for a meaningful conversation. But I wouldn't rule out the chance of it happening. Or at least one starting there.
Disagree. The biggest morons I ever had the pleasure of interacting with was institutionalised university morons. They couldn't function in the real world if their life dependent on it. Most uninspiring 5 years of my life.
People who cant function outside the realm of the university. (your average Professor, the "odd phd", the "all theory / no-idea how to apply this in real-life student")
The companies only do so much people allow them to.
Look at LoL, for example. Game's decided within 10 minutes, yet you cant disconnect or go afk until the full 40 min timelimit is over.
Yet people choose to play it. Why? Dont ask me.
BS. I played some LoL and stupid faggots kept saying we should forfeit after 15 mins because we couldn't win. They kept calling a vote and then one dude eventually just left because I was like "hell no mate I'm not giving up". Funny thing, after an hour we still managed to win with just 4 players.
Moral of the story: the game is NOT decided after 10 minutes.
I really like their policy though that they go hard on quitters. Quitters what ruin public Quake. 90% of games are decided on them. The game can't grow because it will piss newcomers off. It doesn't matter if they do good or bad. If quitters are on their team, they lose, if not, they win.
Ql's public team games were killed right off the bat by not allowing to vote for locking teams or a mid-game kickban.
Temp-banning people based on their finished % ratio couldve been that one single time when the stats couldve come in handy.
Anyway, punishing quitters is a good thing, forcing people to play a certain amount of time is not.
Also, I had 2 seperate accounts on YouTube, and on the second one I uploaded some copyrighted music. When they linked the Youtube accounts to your Google account, my 2 YT accounts somehow got merged in a weird way. I could no longer login to the 2nd one or access the uploaded videos in any way. What is funny is that they started punishing my 1st account for having copyrighted videos on my 2nd channel which I could not delete. The punishment was that I could no longer upload videos with "Not listed" privacy setting, only public and private. To solve this, I created a 3rd channel with the same gmail account, which was again linked to my original channel, but I could switch back and forth between them this time, and the funny thing is that the new channel didn't have any restrictions.