10 Million People Can’t Be Trusted
Posted By: Ms. That Girl | March 8, 2010 | 2 comments
“10 Million People Can’t Be Wrong” That’s what you’ll read on an advertisement for the life-sucking online “game community” (ha) called World of Warcraft. Ummm….like… why, then, would you feel the need to have that as your promotional catchprase? Maybe because billions of people think you need to get a life. Maybe because 10 million people don’t have to be wrong to be fuckin’ creepy and lame. I don’t know. The site for a similar virtual role-playing-game, Second Life, reads, “Join the Internet’s Largest User-Created, 3D Virtual World Community”. I’m sure they meant “loser-created”, and just weren’t paying attention. We all know what The Sims are. When that game first came out like a decade ago, it was pretty cool for a second because it was a new idea that changed up the gaming experience when we got home from school. Now, it’s become where kids GO to school because their parents aren’t home enough to realize they’re skipping due to a severe case of wanting to be someone else. Way to drain the fun and replace it with fuckin’ weird, kids!! (…teenagers… adults… senior citizens… pedophiles.) Yea. This is an issue.
What I wanna know is what the fuck happened to everyone that needs to surrender their soul to an internet fantasy land?? What the hell have you been through? Can I help? Would I want to try to help or would your lifeless zombie shell of a self attack me for intruding?? I’m like legit scared of these people, seriously. Go to YouTube and type in “Greatest Freakout Ever”, and find the original video of the kid buggin out in his bedroom because his mom cancelled his W.O.W. account. This video is the perfect example of what these RPGs (role-playing-games. I feel gay even saying it) are doing to America’s once promising youth. Apparently, this is what would happen if someone murdered you, and you were still alive to react to it. Fucked up, right? I watched an MTV True Life episode on obsessive gamers and people who literally live their social lives strictly on the internet. I wanted to shake these people and go “DO YOU THINK YOU LOOK COOL RIGHT NOW?!” but in reality I wouldn’t even get near them. Would you get near a robot whose prized possesion is a Katana Sword? Because I’m pretty sure that’s what I’d be getting myself into.
There are, however, less-violent ways to pretend you are important on the internet. Second Life is like The Sims only created with the intention of sucking the souls out of people who have lost all hope in ever being truly cool. What these poor lonely souls don’t realize is that there was always hope, until the minute they clicked on “Register”. It’s lost now- they’re fucked. In this particular episode of T.L., I watched a talented young female musician become a celebrity in a virtual world full of dorks and nutbags. She was able to play her real-life guitar and use her actual voice through a computer microphone to perform as an avatar, and gained Second Life fame and fortune (Numbers. On a computer screen.) Thankfully, though, she gathered the courage to go to a real-life local coffee shop, and perform as herself. Unfortunately, she was nothing to write home about, but at least she tried, for pity’s sake!!
I have a plea for those who are lost in the World Wide Web: People PLEASE get a life. PLEASE. I’m scared of you, and so is everyone else! You ARE what we are all terrified that this planet is going to become!! If you aren’t immobile from sitting on your ass for 10 years, get up and go talk to real people! There’s still time… there’s still time.
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Daneel May 9, 2010 at 4:08 am
You gotta be kidding me. It’s fucking entertainment! What the difference between a hooked w.o.w. player and an abusive husband who just sit around watching the “game” all night after work? It’s a pretty well known fact that the day of the super bowl is the day with the most reported domestic violence reports. Sports jockos idolize sports heroes.
Further to this, people idolize those which they wish they were. If you want to tell people who play online games to “get a life”, then you should tell women to stop buying Cosmopolitan, or stop telling people to see movies with actors in them that they like/idolize, stop going to concerts with musicians that they like/idolize. Living vicariously through avatars, actors, musicians, writers, poets, models IS NOTHING NEW! It’s been around since day one. People get obsessed over quite a bit more than video games. It’s just new on the scene so it’s an easy target.
Aaron Van Gossen March 8, 2010 at 8:36 pm
Maybe this is part of natural selection, but in a high tec way. Let them stay at home, that way they wont actually mate with others and maybe we can eventually weed them out through proper breeding. It took generations to weed out neanderthal after Homo Sapien came on the scene. Maybe these are Internet-erthals, or something. They’ll die off because they’re truly too stupid to live.
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