Originally Posted by
SnnY
..makes you jaded, doesn't it?
This board was the first of its kind I ever joined, and if I'm to be honest, I think I was way too nice in the beginning, and when any conflicts came up, I tried to avoid them.
Nowadays, there's nothing that really surprises me, not in such a way I can't handle it anyway, on other boards, or in online games. And I can be a bit of a bastard, when I feel like it, I think.
The question is, should I be pleased I can be nastier than any other person around, when on smaller boards and such? Or am I worse off, now?
The reality is that, at first, you were a bit insecure in unfamiliar waters and avoided conflict, scared that you would be consumed.
Once you became comfortable, you realized that you were a man amongst boys and had nothing to fear.
The crux becomes, does it make your penis hard because you can "pwn" someone else.
In that case you are just an asshole.
If, on the contrary, you feel that you can stand up and support your beliefs and discuss them without fear of rejection or contradiction, then you have grown as a person.
If you are mean, just because you can be, also makes you an ass. There are many young kids who are trying to express important points, but do so poorly.
You can either take the tack of attempting to understand what they were meaning to express, or you can take their literal posts and tear them a new one.
Sometimes there are people who are arses on the web, who are also obviously complete losers in real life. I personally don't take the pish out of these people and will take a bit of their shit, just because I am comfortable in myself.
I think the real losers on the web are those who attack others because they can disguise their asshole characters under the premise of false offense, they get off on being mean. Fucking losers, if you ask me.
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