So I'm browsing down the list of "View New Posts" and something catches my eye.
I read the OP comment and whooa that's intense.
I scan the thread waiting for the punchline. Hmm no punchline.
I re read the OP comment, thinking, am I just missing something?
Then on slowly prowling the thread I realize, hmm a lot of established names on this thread. People of position on the forum.
I conclude, I am NOT posting on this thread. The damage potential was just to high for me.
To intrude on a conversation made up of people that have known each other for a while (apparently), and make a comment out of the blue from an outsider, nah it was patently unwise an action.
But it made me ponder, and when I start pondering I get a burning urge to comment somewhere damn it.
So I'll do it here, after all, at least on my blog, it's assumed to be my little corner of GBAtemp.
Your gender, what's the point of mentioning it? Got proof?
Your age, what's the point of mentioning it? Got proof?
Your education, what's the point of mentioning it? Got proof?
Married, retired navy seal with a CMH and 4 tours in places I never officially was present. Hey, it's not impossible.
Nah, I'd rather be a Canadian Army Sniper. Why not eh, when Marines feel safer just having a Canadian sniper present, that says someting.
More exciting than saying I was just a typical 031.
But hell, what't the point of asking me for details at all. You can't see me, you likely have no interest in knowing me, I'm just an account name and a avatar image and depending on the forum, a post count, maybe some forum icons.
What's the point of asking?
People say the internet is phony, as if the real world outside your door isn't fake.
The sad truth is the world outside your door isn't any more real, you just need a different form of camouflage.
Here I'm wearing an account name and an avatar image to present an image.
But outside on the street, I use a fashion statement based on the clothes I choose to wear.
People also say a lot of things while online. But it's just words on a screen. And I've been writing words on a screen since 1990. And I have an extremely clever imagination. I'm a capable writer. How much of what I say is important to me, and how much is me just killing time?
Again though, have you ever listened closely to the things people say within earshot of you when you are out in the real world?
People are not always genuine in person. This is likely verifiable by all the failed marriages. People getting something other than what they thought they were getting.
Of course it gets interesting, when we offer some of the reality, and then the reality comes back on us as a bad taste.
Sometimes it's best not to offer too much reality, because maybe the reality is something we don't want to reveal.
Should you have said that online? Is a question a lot of us should consider.
Would you have considered it a good idea to say it out loud in a public place out on the street in person?
And as I said, this is partly from observations.
I've met a lot of people online, that in the course of time, were quite unpleasant. And all because I gave them something of my reality, and then that person used it against me.
Just as I have had to deal with people in person, that in the fullness of time were people I wish I had never met at all.
You sometimes regret being genuine.
You sometimes regret being fake.
That's the hell of the internet though. Just as much as it is the problem of the "real world".
I came here for the Nintendo DS. In the end, that's really all that counts. It's true, I came here because I like the Nintendo DS.
And I also find it annoying that they don't make enough games like Panzer Tactics.
I figured, "you have to go where the people are, that you might be able to interest in the game".
You don't go where wargaming is already established. I wasn't interested in preaching to the choir.
Besides, the choir seems to be caught in a deep rut at any rate.
Anything else I say here at GBAtemp, well I wouldn't get to interested in the comments.
There's a limit to how important anything non game should be made to seem.
Because remember, this is the internet. It's real, sometimes. But not always.
I read the OP comment and whooa that's intense.
I scan the thread waiting for the punchline. Hmm no punchline.
I re read the OP comment, thinking, am I just missing something?
Then on slowly prowling the thread I realize, hmm a lot of established names on this thread. People of position on the forum.
I conclude, I am NOT posting on this thread. The damage potential was just to high for me.
To intrude on a conversation made up of people that have known each other for a while (apparently), and make a comment out of the blue from an outsider, nah it was patently unwise an action.
But it made me ponder, and when I start pondering I get a burning urge to comment somewhere damn it.
So I'll do it here, after all, at least on my blog, it's assumed to be my little corner of GBAtemp.
Your gender, what's the point of mentioning it? Got proof?
Your age, what's the point of mentioning it? Got proof?
Your education, what's the point of mentioning it? Got proof?
Married, retired navy seal with a CMH and 4 tours in places I never officially was present. Hey, it's not impossible.
Nah, I'd rather be a Canadian Army Sniper. Why not eh, when Marines feel safer just having a Canadian sniper present, that says someting.
More exciting than saying I was just a typical 031.
But hell, what't the point of asking me for details at all. You can't see me, you likely have no interest in knowing me, I'm just an account name and a avatar image and depending on the forum, a post count, maybe some forum icons.
What's the point of asking?
People say the internet is phony, as if the real world outside your door isn't fake.
The sad truth is the world outside your door isn't any more real, you just need a different form of camouflage.
Here I'm wearing an account name and an avatar image to present an image.
But outside on the street, I use a fashion statement based on the clothes I choose to wear.
People also say a lot of things while online. But it's just words on a screen. And I've been writing words on a screen since 1990. And I have an extremely clever imagination. I'm a capable writer. How much of what I say is important to me, and how much is me just killing time?
Again though, have you ever listened closely to the things people say within earshot of you when you are out in the real world?
People are not always genuine in person. This is likely verifiable by all the failed marriages. People getting something other than what they thought they were getting.
Of course it gets interesting, when we offer some of the reality, and then the reality comes back on us as a bad taste.
Sometimes it's best not to offer too much reality, because maybe the reality is something we don't want to reveal.
Should you have said that online? Is a question a lot of us should consider.
Would you have considered it a good idea to say it out loud in a public place out on the street in person?
And as I said, this is partly from observations.
I've met a lot of people online, that in the course of time, were quite unpleasant. And all because I gave them something of my reality, and then that person used it against me.
Just as I have had to deal with people in person, that in the fullness of time were people I wish I had never met at all.
You sometimes regret being genuine.
You sometimes regret being fake.
That's the hell of the internet though. Just as much as it is the problem of the "real world".
I came here for the Nintendo DS. In the end, that's really all that counts. It's true, I came here because I like the Nintendo DS.
And I also find it annoying that they don't make enough games like Panzer Tactics.
I figured, "you have to go where the people are, that you might be able to interest in the game".
You don't go where wargaming is already established. I wasn't interested in preaching to the choir.
Besides, the choir seems to be caught in a deep rut at any rate.
Anything else I say here at GBAtemp, well I wouldn't get to interested in the comments.
There's a limit to how important anything non game should be made to seem.
Because remember, this is the internet. It's real, sometimes. But not always.
