Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[TiQuinn]

First there was Stacy, then Karen, and now apparently Felicia.

Which women's name will become an insult in 2025? I'm guessing Bertha, or maybe Edith. I guess we'll see.

Felicia predates Karen. And I don’t know about Stacy but I hear her mom has got it goin on.

 

[Alzrius]

And I don’t know about Stacy

To be fair, I first heard the name being used in a derogatory way on an episode of Law and Order SVU, but apparently it's a thing.

 

[Deset Gled]

I don't disagree, but it's probably worth considering that far too many people are stuck in some cycle or other, and victimization is at least sometimes a cycle.

In real life? Absolutely.

On an internet message board? Nah, I'm not buying it.

In a game of D&D? There's a gray area and I can sympathize with social issues to a certain extent, but in general I assume anyone who is caught in a cycle of victimization is there because they want to be.

 

[prabe]

In real life? Absolutely.

On an internet message board? Nah, I'm not buying it.

In a game of D&D? There's a gray area and I can sympathize with social issues to a certain extent, but in general I assume anyone who is caught in a cycle of victimization is there because they want to be.

I was responding to something that seemed to be talking as much about IRL as online, and I was kinda hinting at the really out-there idea that we shouldn't blame victims for being victims.

 

[Ryujin]

Hey, be fair.

YouTube bears a lot of the blame as well.

Youtube has certainly helped me in a lot of things, but it's not my be-all, end-all. My initial experiences with chainmail, for example, started with Youtube videos. That has now been supplemented by 12 years of hands-on experience and the manufacture of three different ring cutting rigs. I'm still not where I want to be with that skill and likely never will be.

Dunning and Kruger don't always win the fight.

 

[TiQuinn]

I was responding to something that seemed to be talking as much about IRL as online, and I was kinda hinting at the really out-there idea that we shouldn't blame victims for being victims.

If it helps, my OP was about someone known for constant online gripes. Too much generalization can lead down different paths.

 

[prabe]

If it helps, my OP was about someone known for constant online gripes. Too much generalization can lead down different paths.

Fair. And your OP is a reasonable reaction to someone who keeps getting into fights (online or plausibly otherwise), the problem indeed is probably them.

 

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[Whizbang Dustyboots]

There are regular posters here that I honestly can't tell whether they're bots or if gibberish is their native tongue. Truthfully, if they're bots, it would make me like them more.

 

[prabe]

There are regular posters here that I honestly can't tell whether they're bots or if gibberish is their native tongue. Honestly, if they're bots, it would make me like them more.

I try not to post gibberish. Really, I do. Sometimes, though, I look back on something I've posted and realize my brain was generating words my fingers weren't typing. Or something.