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| Fuck the Internet | 2/15/16 |
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You know. The internet used to be a fun place. Now it's just a restrictive cesspool of advertisement, spyware, and malware infested sites run by paranoid, uptight, fucking pussies. Yeah, I didn't get laid for Valentine's Day, and I'm in a shitty mood. I'm 34 now, and I've only ever had one good Valentine's Day. Here we go folks... What the fuck happened to freedom of expression? Every staffer at every fucking site nowadays acts like they're working for the FCC. If the rampant censorship of simple words that are part of the english language and listed the same as any other word in the fucking dictionary wasn't enough, you also have the super paranoid types that are afraid to let anyone even mention piracy/modding/anything questionable no matter what the fucking context. The paranoia doesn't stop there though. Now they're actually afraid of letting people talk about others by name. Apparently, even telling people to avoid a specific random on XBL could be libelous? WHAT THE FUCK!? Is everyone online having their vagina waxed between their sessions on the PC??? Welcome to the internet. Where men are men, women are men, and everyone is a giant fucking pussy. Why is every staffer I run into at websites so uptight they're damn near inside out!? Shall we begin? Ok, censorship is retarded everywhere, but I'll point out some of the most retarded and most aggravating ones I know of. The official Gears of War forums always pissed me off. The characters in campaign can say "fuck" constantly, but you can't use it in the forums no matter what the context. Fuck them. It's a forum for an M rated fucking game. Oh, is this a callout? Nope. Fact. Look at their fucking website. I've seen forums censor words as simple as goddamn and retarded. RETARDED? Way to prove how retarded your fucking staff is. It's even better when the fucking asshole who wrote the bullshit custom forums doesn't have shit just auto-censored, and instead, chooses to block the post entirely until you fix it...BUT they don't tell you exactly which word is against their ridiculous policy! Amazon actually clears the post box entirely, so you have to hit the back button and hope the fuck everything you just wrote is still there! I was on another forum a while back and said something as simple as suggesting the console/game actually deserves to get pirated, and some tool thought that was enough to violate the anti-piracy rule. Fuck off. Now for the odd issue that sparked this rant in the first place. Callouts. No, not map locations on Halo. Pay attention. The internet definition of a callout is apparently extremely fucking vague, not to mention paranoid. My status about a week ago was a simple warning to avoid a random asshole on XBL, who is NOT registered on TA and has nothing to do with the site. Somehow telling people to avoid someone is potentially libelous? " The reason we have this rule is simple, we cannot allow anything potentially libelous on the site and have to remove what we find. " How exactly is saying to avoid someone a libelous fucking statement? I didn't say his momma is fat. I said don't help the fucking asshole boost!! Plain and simple. I didn't publicly accuse him of finger banging my cat! So if I make my status "Vote for Paul" or "Don't vote for Trump" is that a fucking callout too? Get fucking real. I might finally be on the verge of getting good internet after all these years, and it's barely worth having. I guess I can still download porn. For now. Wait. I'm not done bitching about callouts. My experience with these bullshit callout rules actually did start with Halo, specifically Bungie.net forums. When I first got on Reach in late 2010, Bungie was still in charge (R.I.P. Halo 2011 -- fuck 343). Every firefight match I got into there were people idling for XP/rounds survived (Perfectionist commmendation). I even got host booted by some asshole who was hiding for rounds survived after I ran the piece of shit over with a ghost. Stupid bastard sent me text messages about it so I had evidence to report to MS. Anyway, there were matches of 4 player co-op I'd get in and be the only one actually playing. It was shit, and Bungie knew it. I kept track of all the assholes, since the "avoid player" feature didn't work and filing complaints for "cheating" was doing nothing. I posted a list of about 70 names and demanded they do something. They removed my post because "callouts." Did they fix the credit payouts so it multiplied the kill bonuses and stopped giving credits just for being there? Of course not. Everyone gets a fucking trophy now. Hence, one of my problems with GTASC, but that's for another blog. They reset a few peoples' ranks. Fat lot of good that did. There was a guy who was reset 3 fucking times and STILL idled firefight! I'm so tired of this anti-callout shit I registered TrueAssholes.com, which I hope to dedicate to allowing everyone to call out the assholes on the internet when I have time. Be on the lookout for it. Websites need to stop protecting the anonymity of anonymous online identities of anonymous fucking assholes. | |
