I was wondering how long it was going to be until the gay bar was referred to. Refreshingly it took two hours. If we had had this sort of attentiveness through history imagine the possibilities. The Romans would have recognised the necessity to ensure the unity of the Empire, the Goths and Visigoths would have realised the importance of retaining Rome, The Habsburgs would have retained the Militaergrenze, Hitler would have delegated more responsibility to his generals, the Cuban Missile Crisis would have been averted and pooky's parents could have had an abortion. Not to mention the fact that we could all have gone out and got a life instead of wasting an inexcusable amount of time on a virtual website waiting to see if Vader could come up with a witty responce to another bout of sprawling wank from the keyboard of spotty 13 year olds. But much as the pits of misery draw ever closer to Ginsberg's self-hole of discovery (points to whoever understands this reference, and - as always - points mean absolutely f**k all), I find myself checking back to this degenerate world of the worldwide web's most unsociable lay-abouts, those for whom a simple virtual game has generated an entire new real world, where friends are made, enemies forged, and brutally unamusing references to putting various people into the "Recycle Bin" become acceptable in signatures. And so the simple question is aroused from the genitalia of the phorum: "Why do we come here", "What is the point", "Am I actually just a failure in the real world and therefore have to spend half my life on the internet pretending to be a 18 year old Japanese porn star with a cock as large as the bill would be if you attempted to drive the six-wheeled Tyrrell P34 into the London Congestion Zone?" The answer is that the phorum provides an abstract area - a disused pit-lane perhaps - in which the gpgamer is able to express himself without fear of reprisal, censorship, rejection or intimidation. Indeed, I believe the inverse is true of the commonly held assumption of the nature of the internet - that those who fail in real life, fail on the internet. A rejection from an online community is a rejection from a society with very little bias and no physical influence. Those who succeed on the phorum will, in due course, suceed in real life.
So yeah, do you still live next to that f**king train track?
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/25/2008 11:35PM by ChrisB.