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Forum trolls and the caves they live in...

Ah, the forum troll.  You really learn to hate and appreciate them all at the same time.  I mean, is it not a talent to completely disregard logic and reason only to create an inflammatory remark that you know will incite hatred and malice?  It is one of the ultimate forms of manipulation in my opinion.  Really, when a troll.....well, trolls, he knows the reaction he will receive.  He understands that many 'thumbs down' will probably be in his near future, but he doesn't care about any of that.  All he cares about is that he got into your head, and he usually succeeds.

So are trolls so gosh darned successful, you ask?  Well it's because of a couple of different factors

1. The troll knows exactly what topics will incite the most emotional response out of his victims.  Why troll something that no one cares about?
2. The troll knows that his own personal beliefs don't matter.  Making an inflammatory statement against the popular opinion will always invoke defensive reactions out of his victims.
3. The troll does not tire of his work.  If you just say it once, it sounds like your own opinion.  If you shove it down people's throats repeatedly, it's much more difficult to ignore.

All in all.  Trolls are here.  We better get used to it.  As long as the internet remains a place of social gathering, trolls will roam the Earth.  When you think about it truthfully, don't we need trolls to keep us grounded?  We can't go around having to much self-esteem now can we?

My unhealthy obsession with technology...and trolls.

Technology, oh technology.  How I loathe thy ever changing facade.  Doth thou self never tire of the limitless trolls that patrol thy streets?  Viciously waiting for any intellectual foolish enough to let thy guard down.  Teething for the tiniest morsel of news so thy hatred can be cast upon it?

No but seriously, that was the worst Olde English ever, lol.  Anyways, technology for me is probably the greatest enigma that humans have thus far created.  By technology, I mean everything from cell phones to computers, nuclear reactors to keyboards and everything in between.  It is like cocaine to me.  I live it, I breathe it, I never stop talking about it and I know far too much about it.  Worst than that, when it comes to tech, like in real life, I'm a jack of all trades about it.  I could probably have a conversation with you just about anything.  That in itself is inherently the sad part.  I don't specialize in one area, so I don't know everything there is to know about any one thing.

Now that I think about it though, that may not be a terrible thing.  It allows me to always be surprised and captivated by the ever changing nature of it all.  Day to day, week to week things change.  Is this something that helps me deal with change socially?  Maybe, maybe not, I've never really thought about it like that.  Maybe thats some philosophical discussion I need to have with myself.  Who knows.

The 'Inception' of my blog!

Come one, come all!  Welcome to Andrew's Random Amazing Thoughts.  This blog is a love-child created from a combination of mental thought, sheer will power, procrastination and silliness.  Those are actually a few great phrases that describe me.

1. I'd like to think that I'm pretty intelligent.  Now, the word intelligence to me isn't necessarily the ability to recall information from a textbook and pass a class.  It's more of discovery of situations and perceiving the truth of a scenario.  It's an active learning and implementing process which takes an unknown and breaks it down, builds it  back up, realizing that you did that wrong, breaking it back down and making sense of it.

 2. I have lots of sheer will power.  I am, unnatural I know, a morning person.  It's like, I wake up and can jump out of bed and immediately start my day.  I don't use an alarm clock, my mind has proven itself too crafty for that.  I end up waking up 5 minutes before it's supposed to go off and turn it off before I have to hear the retching, piercing sound of it.  I tend to have an abundance of energy until my 'Cloak of Slumber' (my green blanket) is donned and I'm out like a 3 year old after a long day at a park for the first time.  I can't help it, it's my weakness.  A green blanket that when put over me has very intense sleeping properties.  It is banned during late night parties by my friends.  Cruel, cruel punishment.

3. I am a different breed of procrastinator.  I do not apologize for what is obviously procrastination, rather I procrastinate from procrastination thus never having to deal with the fact that I procrastinate.  The problem is that I only procrastinate certain things.  It's not a procrastination lifestyle I have, but more specific and increasingly random.  A big one for me is clothes all over my floor.  I truly can't help it.  They just.....make their way there and kind of just stay there.  The rest of the place is spotless, but the clothes....possibly seeming like an insurmountable task, they lay on the floor in my room and mock me like I'm the worst person in the world.

4. Andrew is my name, and silliness is my game.  Not pranks, or physical harm, or even slapstick really; more like an uncompromising and sometimes unfiltered wit.  Firstly, I am not offensive to people themselves, rather offensive to the stereotypes they place themselves in(including myself).  My mind is pretty fantastical.  That is all.

In this blog, I DO plan to get political, I DO plan to call people and things stupid, I DO plan to post random and borderline inappropriate things, I DO plan on getting obsessed with random people/places/ideas.  I DON'T plan on letting the flames get to me, I DON'T plan on blasting people with differing opinions, I DON'T plan on not making lots of new friends, I DON'T plan on fame or fortune, though I am not opposed to it. So this is like, the longest blog post I've ever done.  This may or may not have anything to do with the fact that this is the first blog post I've ever done, but I'm not making any assumptions.

Anyways, as my friend Sam says, CyalataBYE!