The Streisand Effect relates to one's attempts to get people to ignore or forget certain facts (censorship, or in your case, simply asking people to drop the subject) but ultimately draws more attention to those facts. I'd say it's already happened to you. How many posts is it now, and we're still on about those comments you made? Like I said, you could have stopped most of it by not replying (but you keep doing it, even now).
For some who doesn't care what we think, you sure have taken a lot of time talking about what happened over the past few pages. Just saying :/
slightly random and off-topic, but my computer's wifi adapter constantly stops working if I'm not in a skype call, and this is very annoying. Does anyone have any ideas to throw at me to try and fix this? Downloading on Desura makes the adapter stop working less often, but it still happens, and steam makes it happen more often, which I find strange.
Yes, I've tried turning off skype. Yes, I've tried uninstalling skype. Yes, I've tried moving the adapter in the case that it's just freaking out at some values sent or received over wifi being wrong. Yes, it happens in video games while Skype is not active, no matter the video game.
(05-23-2014, 10:34 AM)Shonumi Wrote: [ -> ]The Streisand Effect relates to one's attempts to get people to ignore or forget certain facts (censorship, or in your case, simply asking people to drop the subject) but ultimately draws more attention to those facts. I'd say it's already happened to you. How many posts is it now, and we're still on about those comments you made? Like I said, you could have stopped most of it by not replying (but you keep doing it, even now).
For some who doesn't care what we think, you sure have taken a lot of time talking about what happened over the past few pages. Just saying :/
The only reason I kept it going is people kept responding to it and I felt the need to explain/correct or reiterate and inform that it was nothing more than sarcasm. The internet is becoming toxic and is like I'm radioactive and unconsciously rubbing my toxicity off on everyone else. I've been getting kind of defensive and cynical because of unfounded personal attacks being shot my way and dealing with clowns on other forums. I wanted to rant in a familiar place with familiar members to blow off some steam but unintentionally made it 100x worse on me further digging myself into a hole. I keep responding because everyone else keeps responding and my defence mechanisms kick in and feel the need to defend myself to uphold my good (until now) reputation.
However I'm dropping this now for real and will avoid this thread for a while until this blows over and is buried.
I get that people want to defend/explain themselves, but you really made the hole deeper each time you did. I only say this because nearly all of the messes I've seen online would more or less evaporate if people at the source of contreversy had quit (and I mean leave the discussion entirely). If you say anything after a brief "take it or leave it" explanation or defense, the trouble just keeps piling up. Responding to others even after you've laid out your defense just continues the discussion.
Not everyone can be like me I guess. I'll argue with someone for pages until they quit :p
(05-23-2014, 11:11 AM)kinkinkijkin Wrote: [ -> ]slightly random and off-topic, but my computer's wifi adapter constantly stops working if I'm not in a skype call, and this is very annoying. Does anyone have any ideas to throw at me to try and fix this? Downloading on Desura makes the adapter stop working less often, but it still happens, and steam makes it happen more often, which I find strange.
Yes, I've tried turning off skype. Yes, I've tried uninstalling skype. Yes, I've tried moving the adapter in the case that it's just freaking out at some values sent or received over wifi being wrong. Yes, it happens in video games while Skype is not active, no matter the video game.
Try another OS that is not Windows 8, if possible ( just a shot in the dark really, but I did have issues with my wireless card and W8 that ended up forcing me to change to Windows 7 ).
(05-23-2014, 10:38 AM)noah Wrote: [ -> ]its been a while
Hello!
(05-23-2014, 01:06 AM)Xtreme2damax Wrote: [ -> ] (05-22-2014, 11:58 PM)Shonumi Wrote: [ -> ]NA women tend to be superficial? Ouch, what a broad and sexist brush you paint with. Not only is that not true (and if it is, it's sampling error) but North America covers more places than the USA (Canada, Mexico...) You do need to get out more.
Don't see how that's sexist but from what I see and experience it seems to be the case and the media glorifies and encourages it, society follows suit. I meant the USA and not North America as a whole but people mostly refer to the USA as America or North America. Maybe if you think what I said was so bad and sexist I should introduce you to a good online buddy of mine blushogun96 but I haven't seen him around lately. So who is from the USA here, I doubt anyone outside the country would really understand what it's actually like here.
Can we drop this now and move on? I'm sorry I ever made a sarcastic remark and thought you all were better than this.
It's because your sexist that you're unable to see how sexist it is.
(05-23-2014, 02:56 AM)Xtreme2damax Wrote: [ -> ]Maybe superficial isn't the right word I was looking for. Woman (men to a lesser extent) seem to be obsessed with looks, as I said the media perpetrates, encourages this.
What? You mean their own looks? Women generally care less about how potential partners look than men.
Quote:Generally (in my case) guys that aren't that attractive physically i.e. ugly or nerdy, overweight, are socially awkward, mentally ill are going to struggle way more than their female counterparts when it comes to relationships and dating. Even if I shoot for standards lower than I'd like, woman that I shouldn't have any problem getting a date and establishing a relationship with never consider me romantically and all I'll ever be to them is a good friend. On the flip side I see woman whom go through the same or are worse off that are able to find guys, not just guys but attractive guys interested in dating them.
This isn't true at all. The reason it might seem that way is
because men tend to have higher standards when it comes to appearance, and that limits their options. Men can get laid just as easily as women if they lower their standards.
The problem you're having is that women tend to value personality higher than men do. That's your problem. From what i can tell based on your recent posts here, your personality is kind of disgusting. It's not the least bit surprising to me that women don't like you. If you can't figure out why, and try to change the way you think about women, then indeed, you may be alone for the rest of your life. Because in reality, women don't like assholes.
And FYI, nobody assumed it was sarcasm/irony because it wasn't funny in any way and just really pathetic.
Hmm, anyways, for some reason my OS seems to uninstall programs by itself, weird, i tried to use 7-zip yesterday and it was nowhere to be found, had to install again, hope it isn't a virus cause AVG is up to date.
(05-23-2014, 02:54 PM)RachelB Wrote: [ -> ]Because in reality, women don't like assholes.
Well a bit more correct would be that they don't like guys who are being assholes towards them, now if a guy is an asshole towards the rest of society but them, it wouldn't be that much of a problem.