As promised.
The words above act as a snapshot of what once was. Their website has since removed my wise words. Truly a pity. Some of them have been preserved, but sadly those attached to the other post are forever lost in the whorls of time and space and flashing lights that is the internet. Of note: Donovon elected to remove my posts, but not their responses, resulting in a jarring situation best described, in layman’s terms, as a “circle-jerk”, where everyone agrees with everyone else and any contesting opinions are immediately quashed.
In the immortal words of George Orwell,
Ignorance is bliss.
Now, Kasen’s reaction in particular is of interest. He feels the need to insult me but unfortunately fails — ultimately sending mixed messages. This next exchange is particularly unique:
Someone explain this to me, please.
It took me more than a moment to comprehend his words. They seem absurd and non-sequitur at first and while I have no doubt that all who are interested understand, I will clarify nonetheless. From the combination of anime smileys in his prior message (an increasingly rare example of non-ironic usage) and his comments, we can deduce that he believes himself a weeaboo and I a troll. I denied my status as a troll, to which he responds,
If I was a troll you’d be a weeaboo.
a sentence that will no doubt raise several eyebrows. My understanding is that he ‘reversed’ our perceived roles. In an (horrible, horrible) opposite land where I am him and he is me, our roles swapped, I would carry traits that he possesses now. I would be a ‘weeaboo’, he a ‘troll’.
I assumed this explanation to be correct and ventured an argument of my own. “If our roles were truly reversed,” I say, “You would be a troll, a weeaboo, and astoundingly brilliant.” By this, I imply that I am much more than just a troll. I imply that I too have knowledge of weeaboo culture (more on this later!) and have acted as a troll in the past (more on my past exploits later!), and also am astoundingly brilliant. I then say that he’s a sub-par dude all around and type something in gratuitous Japanese to prove my claims.
In an attempt to inject some humor into the admittedly dull comments section of the site, I went off on an amusing tangent. I sneaked in a stealth-insult too, a jab at Mabinogi.
For those curious as to the contents of my other comments, I will briefly summarize below:
Donovon asked why I continued to visit their site. I explained my situation and lack of stipulation to refrain from returning. I also mentioned that I found their reactions amusing. Kasen responds with, “Get a life,” to which I said something of the sort:
Schadenfreude does not preclude having a life. When the inevitable happens and everything falls apart, it simply means that at the end of it all, I’m the one that’s laughing.
Ah, how dark and edgy. At any rate, I can’t help but wonder if it was that statement that exacerbated the admittedly taut tensions between us. More likely he realized that my comment’s continued existence on his site simply funneled more readers to my own.
