Comments on: Well Duh! http://stroppsworld.com/2009/07/08/well-duh/ Spank That Orc, He Likes It Fri, 18 May 2012 05:02:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Stropp http://stroppsworld.com/2009/07/08/well-duh/#comment-41505 Stropp Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:53:34 +0000 http://stroppsworld.com/?p=787#comment-41505 I think you got the nuance down perfectly. I further think that jerks inhabit every niche of the human tapestry (poetic huh?) and the professor niche has the same percentage as any other. Perhaps he just liked griefing and tried to justify that by calling it research. Am I being too cynical here? I think you got the nuance down perfectly. I further think that jerks inhabit every niche of the human tapestry (poetic huh?) and the professor niche has the same percentage as any other. Perhaps he just liked griefing and tried to justify that by calling it research.

Am I being too cynical here?

]]> By: Ysharros http://stroppsworld.com/2009/07/08/well-duh/#comment-41503 Ysharros Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:47:10 +0000 http://stroppsworld.com/?p=787#comment-41503 I found some of this a little odd too. The outpouring of infantile hate, no -- that's standard for MMOs and, as it happens, pretty much standard for real life. (Have these "omg MMO communities!" read-no-evil people ever watched football fans? Say no more.) But the whole "I went in there and played as the rules allow me to play and I never expected people to get mad" sounds really, really disingenuous to me. What it *did* sound like was "I went in there to grief the crap out of people, but entirely within the rules so I couldn't get banned (and thereby end the experiment), and took notes the whole time so I can write an article about what poo-flinging monkeys we still are." But hey, maybe I missed a nuance. ;) I found some of this a little odd too. The outpouring of infantile hate, no — that’s standard for MMOs and, as it happens, pretty much standard for real life. (Have these “omg MMO communities!” read-no-evil people ever watched football fans? Say no more.)

But the whole “I went in there and played as the rules allow me to play and I never expected people to get mad” sounds really, really disingenuous to me. What it *did* sound like was “I went in there to grief the crap out of people, but entirely within the rules so I couldn’t get banned (and thereby end the experiment), and took notes the whole time so I can write an article about what poo-flinging monkeys we still are.”

But hey, maybe I missed a nuance. ;)

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