gatsome

The Internet is a worldwide double edged sword. Allowing people to have unprecedented access to accept and gather information is fantastic. The balance to this equation however is enough to overwhelm the novices and continue to harden the veteran users. Rome had their Colosseum, contemporary sports have their stadiums, and cyber-warriors will have their forums.

Forums are the everyman’s battleground. A chance to diminish and obliterate some unsuspecting n00b or to challenge the near-infallible veteran troll. These battles wage until one person often just gives up and leaves, leaving the victor to soak in the e-glory of his latest e-kill. For the most part these fights are victimless but quite a few times intelligence, reason, and logic are not involved in the victory.

With this in mind I present: The Top 9 Things the Forum Nerds Will Never Admit

(continue reading…)

I realize there has been some time that has passed since part one was created and published but it wasn’t intentional, I promise. I can’t really say there was a high demand for the remaining two installments but I will say, according to the logs, part one received a higher degree of hits than the majority of my other posts.

Without further ado, The Top 9 Things Forum Nerds Will Never Admit (Part 2)

(continue reading…)

riitard™

rii•tard [ree-tahrd]
-noun

• A hybrid acronym-compound consisting of “R.I.I.” and “tard“
  1. Random Internet Individual
  2. tard

• A general classification of unknown internet users
  1. anonymous users of the world wide web
  2. internet persons of unknown origin or purpose

Pass it on, I want to see this mainstream by the holiday season. Someone should submit it to urbandictionary.com, and I’ll take care of submitting it to Webster.