Thursday, October 30, 2008

Anonymous chaos making: why the internet is great

Today, I was reminiscing about all the great times I spent with some older computer games. I was remembering all of my exploits in one game called counterstrike. In counterstrike one team plays the role of terrorists and the other team is counter-terrorists. The goal is to kill the entire other team, a simplistic game, yet still extremely fun. But the most fun I had in all my years of playing counter-strike was fucking with other players. My partner in such cyber-douche baggery was my friend Ben Esposito. We came up with many wonderful ways to screw with the world and inject a great ammount of chaos into the internet. These included clan-hopping, clan-baiting, false recruitment, and more.

The fact that we were able to piss so many people off without them ever knowing who we were was insanely pleasurable and gave us a sort of high. But does this reflect human nature? If there was no way of getting caught, would we constantly Fuck with our fellow man for no reason? My answer is a resounding yes! i have recently taken to a new insult in which I tell someone that if I was armed with waterballoons, they would be soaked, and if I was armed with infinate waterballoons, they would be soaked forever, and the second they were about to dry off, I would hit them again. Now when I say this to people, it is usually a lie. Not because I like them, but because they would probably just hit me, and I bruise easily. BUT, if I were able to carry out my moist attacks anonymously, I can think of at least 25 people who I would hit just now, just to lol all over them afterwords.

In conclusions, the only viable foreign policy is deterrance. The only way we can keep anyone from messing with us, is by threatening to mess with them. So until I finalize my invisibility cloak, I will have to get bye on making fun of losers on the internet.

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