Nacturnal staff, ideot.

The current MMO internet cancer I indulge in is a nifty little game called “MapleStory.” For quite some time, it had a rather affable community of people who knew what they were doing and could spell. That all went to shit somewhere around first quarter 2007. You remember… that’s when an influx of underage e-bacteria found their way on to the internet for the first time. These are the type of undereducated individuals who do not understand why ‘nerd’ is not an effective internet insult. So this morning some guy named ‘FROTD’ comes in to my FM store and brilliantly states:

"FROTD: nacturnal staff"

"FROTD: ideot"

This one broke my brain. It's amazing how many 13yearold boys on the internet these days think that their opinion matters. I would think his intent was to make me feel bad... maybe. I just laughed my ass off. It reminded me of the "Get a brain morans - Go USA" meme of the old internet. I find myself reminded of that meme far too often these days.

Sort of like Dracula, but with more angst.

I was recently looking at a banned VampireFreaks user's page, and the ban notice was:

This User Has Been Suspended

by VF Admin for: Masturbating into the mainstream

Until: Forever, fuck off.

This raises the question: If mainstream shit dickery is a bannable offense, why are there any users who are not banned? A neatly packaged rebellion is still neatly packaged. Embracing a trend is not a bad thing per se; after all, we were all nervous teenagers with a need to align ourselves with something greater than ourselves at some point. But when an individual using a mostly-premade identity wails on someone carrying out the same shallow soul-searching process, albeit the process happens to have a different label attached, it simply states the inability of the aggressor to see the big picture. Perhaps the admin in question felt witty - hell, maybe they felt downright intelligent for spotting someone from a mildly different clique. I can tell you that all other involved parties who were not immediately enraged by the presence of someone with a different label than themselves can easily see how downright transparent, insecure, and attention-hungry the admin-in-question was.