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[Jakkarra]

Gentlemen.
Are you ever SO PISSED at that ONE GUY who did *blah* to your *blah* and whatnot?

Don't want to derail another Thread by Voicing this predicament?

well, NOW's YOUR CHANCE! Post rants against WHATEVER here, me, Cats, That Damn Jar, Whatever.

(This thread will hep save many a topic.)

[Jackrabbit]

Very well, I'll move my rant here and lock my topic. For you.

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This rant contains swearwords. Don't read if you find this offensive. Oh sure, we often use them, but I figured I'd be polite about it. Heh. Polite.

Perez Hilton (whose name shall not be mentioned again) is, as you all know, an extremely successful troll, who, under the guise of delivering 'gossip', actively attempts to piss off everyone in Hollywood and all their fans. I do think that there's plenty of people in Hollywood who deserved to be pissed off, not to mention the fans, but -

actually, going to take time out here to say that I do not support trolling other sites (or this one), I do not wish for us to compare successful trolls or troll other websites and that this is purely to rage on the idiocy and just general poor workmanship of Mr. Perez. I've already been warned about talking about trolling other site, other site's you've trolled, trolling experiences you've had, and so I want to make it every clear that this is not about that. Moving on.

- There's people and fans that need to be taken down a peg, sure, but he does it so badly. Check out his site if you wish, I'm not linking it. He reads like an excitable 12 year old girl on facebook. He overuses on the exclamation marks, for some reason uses internet slang (u, OMFG, STFU) in his posts and, I shit you not, drew a poorly drawn phallus in the mouth of a person he didn't like. What? Who is this guy? He has really poorly MSpaint additions to most of his pictures as well, obviously to be 'edgy' and 'funny'. His style of writing leads me to believe that he honestly believes what he's writing, which is even more worrying. This person is some sort of unholy mix of the aforementioned girl  and a 14 year old who was kicked out of the SA forums for crappy attempts at trolling. It's obvious that whether or not he believes what he's writing, he's trying to get people riled up (like me, oh the irony) but he just goes about it so badly.

Take Maddox for example. He is a craftsman (admittedly debatable. But debatable elsewhere, this is not about him) at the art of getting people pissed off. Plenty find him funny, but his works are so well put together in terms of audacity that you can't help but applaud (again, debatable) even if he just put down something you feel deeply about. This guy? He goes about annoying people childishly and haphazardly. I mean, a phallus? Really? It's just so... pathetic, it makes me want to scream. You could have pissed me off in so many ways! So many ways that would leave me thinking "he's an asshole, but he's a clever asshole." but instead you leave me feeling vaguely scuzzy, like I just watched a primary school production written by kids who still think poop jokes are funny. You are so bad at this I can't even laugh. It's terrible. It's sad. It's poorly done, and to be as popular as you are and yet so bad at what you do (I'm reminded of the times Paris Hilton tried to do... anything apart from copulate) is inexcusable. You could be so much! But you aren't. And if you're doing this on purpose... that's pathetic. It's not clever to get people to think you're a talentless idiot, unless you're Sacha Baron Cohen and he does it right. You do not.

tl;dr 'He' annoys me not because he's a troll, but because he's not a good troll.

Grade: F - Must try harder.

[Muz]

Where was this thread when I had stuff to rant about?

[Jackrabbit]

Rant about that.

[Sensei]

Grawr! WTF is up with the YouTube video censoring? It's officially down the toilet in my mind. When YT decided to include ads on their site (bad in itself) it meant they could no longer exploit fair use policies on various things, particularly music. And then there's weird shit like they put in Beethoven instead or have a thing that says "THIS VIDEO HAS BEEN REMOVED" when the video is clearly right fuckin' there. The whole thing has killed a lot of epic videos just because they decided they needed to have fuckin' ads. And it sounds like they're adamant about turning all their popularity, history and loyalty into a cash crop to be milked dry- they're apparently looking to set up a pay-to-watch streaming movie service. This is the worst thing to happen to the site since someone decided Youtube Poop was hilarious. This is a Zelda CD-i level failure. Like fucking Sonic the Emo Hedgehog. Now we all need a new video site. I don't know what people were thinking when they imagined the future meant improving technology.

tl;dr: Youtube ruined its purpose by including ads which forced them to remove copyright-violating videos.

[Aqizzar]

You do realize that the inevitable result of this will be a new free-hosting video service with no ads that everyone then flocks to, leaving YouTube an ad-riven ghost town like every other for-profit hosting site, only to be later bought up by Google like YouTube was.

And the cycle of Internet life goes on...

[Sensei]

Precisely.

That is my raeg.

Edit: Oh, and using obscure russian mirrors is a bother.

[Dragooble]

What i'm really hating about youtube right now is the WMG. they remove sound from videos completely because of their soundtrack they say. unfrotunately this also removes any voices in the video which is really annoying if it's a let's play. they earned themselves the loving nickname Weird Muting Guys by the community.

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[Leafsnail]

Well, Youtube does do this sort of thing every now and again.  95% of the time you can find exactly the same thing on another video hosting website.

[Chutney]

well I wanted to send this as a PM but can't do that, and didn't wanna derail the thread it was from. PERFECT OPPORTUNITY!

No offense, but popularity and 'success' does not equal good.  Slavery was also popular and, at least for some, extremely financially beneficial.

WoW's not as bad as slavery, but it is the worst thing to ever happen to the MMO market.

you compared WoW to slavery lol 

also saying it's the worst thing that happened to the MMO market is silly, because MMOs all suck, and also because WoW did a number of things right that now most MMOs are trying to copy.
The most notable thing Blizzard did with WoW was nigh on eliminate the grind that every single other MMO has, and they're taking away more and more with every major patch. Because of that, they've made one of the most accessible MMOs; instead of having to specifically set aside a few hours for playing like in FFXI, you can jump on, do a few quests or a dungeon, and go back what you were doing in an hour.
Blizzard also releases accessible endgame content (these days, at least). Players don't have to be in a dedicated 'raiding' guild and get together with 30+ people every couple of nights to get rewarded for playing the game. Instead it offers challenges that scale with group size. If you can only get 10 friends together, you can still do the end game content. Most MMOs don't have any small group MMO content at all.
Lastly, WoW was really the first MMO with ... non-shitty PvP. Sure it's dated and terrible now, but when WoW first came out it had glorious and new PvP, the likes of which had never been seen in an MMO before. "What could be called balance, objectives, teams, a reward system? What are these complex technologies" the MMO playing masses said "We are so happy there is an nice getaway from the (minimal)grinding" And nowadays PvP is highly competitive and also gives players experience, allowing them to level by PvPing.

Sorry, I don't like WoW at all, but game design and all that is kind of my forte, so I had to point out the issues with your statement

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[Jackrabbit]

OH MY GODwin IT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE NOW!

[Sensei]

Game design is a forte of mine too- WoW sucks because it's not intellectually challenging. Even if they're noobing up the grind, it's still a grind machine.

Play EVE. In fact I'd like to say 'play Auto Assault', but obviously it wasn't wow-like enough for the market. 

[Jreengus]

Although I can't be bothered to find the exact quote:

Removing the grind from mumorpegers is like removing the [X] from [Y]

Yeh, I know that X was the main constituent of Y.


Aaaanyhow, Out of the MMORPGs I've played WoW was pretty grindy, War was kind of grindy if you include PvP as grinding, something I don't think you really can since it will always present a changing challenge. And finally guild wars was grind free because it used the RPG model rather than the MMORPG one so it was all about playing through the story rather than grinding up to do high level dungeons with your friends