With enemies like this....

[e of pi]

It appears that more gifted heads are beginning to prevail. Read the later posts.

[Hejira]

Originally Posted by morrigan, on the skiffy board

just as i was thinking how utterly unfulfilled my life is right now,
i click on the above link ...
and realise that my life is more fulfilled than the ones that have nothing better to do than copy script text for other people to read.

Someone didn't read the internet.

[Chancellor Valium]

There's nothing more stupid than...err...a very stupid person.

Who doesn't like 5MV, of course

[Zeke]

Looks like it was just the one doofus. As e noted, the other two posters don't share his mistaken idea of what we do here.

Originally Posted by Hejira

Someone didn't read the internet.

Probably hasn't managed to beat the end guy yet.

[Hejira]

Originally Posted by Zeke

Probably hasn't managed to beat the end guy yet.

Oh, it's not that. I've just seen so many people not read the internet lately, it's worth starting a campaign to get people to read the internet. It started out as text, and that seems to be the one thing people skip over these days, even on forums. It's the forum non-reading that makes me twitch.

I've got a blog almost set up dedicated to such a campaign.

[Zeke]

No no no, we need fewer people on the internet. When I watched X3 the other day, almost everyone in the theatre stayed through the credits because they'd heard about the extra scene. That's no fun. The more people are on the internet, the less advantage you and I have.

[Hejira]

...maybe I didn't phrase it so it could be understood correctly. HOPEFULLY I misphrased it.

I'm talking about the current web citizens not reading the internet. Just chasing link after link, download after download, and replying to forum posts without reading beforehand what they're getting into.

Here's an example. I even had a little lack-of-reading dummy spit, and irony reared its deliciously humourous head.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by Hejira

...maybe I didn't phrase it so it could be understood correctly. HOPEFULLY I misphrased it.

You phrased it fine, I took it the wrong way as a joke. The morons who are already on the net are unlikely to leave, so by all means, let's get 'em reading more carefully. I once read a post where someone talked about trying to read my Enterprise Cancellation Spectacular, getting as far as "It's well-written and well-acted," and giving up because I was so full of crap. Never mind that the quoted line was spoken by my ridiculous parody of Les Moonves and began with "Like WWE Smackdown"....

(Of course, I would call ENT well-written and well-acted, but it's the principle.)