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I mean, the behavior of the community speaks for itself. They try so hard not being the thing they ran from three years ago, but in the midst of their attempt, they end up evolving into the very thing they ran from. Its like they just didn't like being on the platform of origin, promised they'd do better, then realizing how separated they are to where they just recreated it by instinct.

Power-Tripping Mods, Gaslighting Users, Immature Moderators, 100 Rules to follow but contradicts itself .etc

I can just go on and on and on. Oh and I don't even care about this stupid debate that happened between .ML and .World because there's virtually no difference and it is just nothing but a sissy online slapfight.

I am coming into this with sincerity because it is something I truly believe in. As a disclaimer, this is to cover people who, get angry because of being poked or already mentally disturbed. I am not including people who're angry through other means such as alcoholic rages, that's a different thing on its own.

And I know people are so going to probably bring up mental issues to contrast and compare. Please, this is not for that. This is not up for debate.

The reason I believe people who have anger issues are disrespected the most is because, I've been in their shoes. Plenty of times. It's a very awfully lonely and jarring world to be in when you're one of these types. It always feels like the world is constantly kicking you while you're down, it's not a great feeling to live with all of the time. The world is kicking at you and you feel unheard.

The online world treats people with anger issues like they're side show entertainment. Like "oh ho! he's angry! quick everyone, lets see how angrier he can get and he can't do shit because we're miles away from him and we're all behind keyboards! huhuhuhuhuhuh!". Friends and Family feel alienated around you, feel like they gotta walk on eggshells all of the time when it comes to engaging with you.

Therapists, Doctors, Psychologists just want to drug you up because they feel you're a lost cause. Society doesn't take you seriously, because they like to make things your fault all of the time. How many situations can you recall where you got angry because someone was knowingly instigating something with you and did everything in their power to make things hell for you? It happens in school a lot. It happens at work a fair deal.

And if you retaliate, there's this weird sensation society has where, even if you are in the right to react the way you did (violence aside), then they just see you as a wild animal that needs to be kicked to the side and away from everyone. It is very fucking weird and it is a real thing.

People act all so surprised when the buttons are pushed too much and then we reach dangerous levels that do involve violence. I'm sorry but I sympathize a lot with people who end up having to resort to violence when all options to handle things as civilly and peacefully as possible has been thoroughly exhausted and when nobody is listening to them at all. Mainly because, it is a situation that never should have gotten to, if people did fucking listen and cared.

So great, the individual who reacted angrily is now demonized, probably will get tossed in jail for however long and god forbid they realize they're in a world of shit, that they go off themselves when given the chance.

The moral of the matter is, the next time you're dealing with an angry person, you have to stop and think a little about what world they could be in, that could make them angry at all. You'll never know, if they're someone, who's been fucked with a lot, who feel unheard, who is disrespected and somebody who isn't actually even trying to turn lives upside down on purpose.

You'll be truly amazed at times, how an angry person can change a tune when you go the opposite direction of what they expect, than just adding fuel to the fire and making them the fault of everything.

WWF. Especially during the attitude era. It was like 1998 through 2000 that nearly everyone was into wrestling, especially with what the WWF was doing and some of what WCW was doing with NWO. But, as the years piled on, it seemed like the flaws became more apparent. I look back at that period now and was like "...why did we like this again? and what from it did people want?". Because some people want swearing back, they want buckets of blood back, they want sex appeal back .etc

That was just car-crash television and I learned later that what both promotions were doing back then, were doing whats called hot-shotting. It's a wrestling term where you're booking things in a seemingly appealing matter that audiences want to see. That's what they were doing and it did honestly work for a long time.

If there was anything I'd want out of wrestling anymore these days, is competent booking and for matches to feel like and be big-fight moments. The cat is out of the bag for what wrestling really is, it's just about characters, smoke and mirrors and highly choreographed moves that when they look routine, stand out.

At least some of the video games were still fun.

This is going to require some story.

Sometime ago, I bought what was said to be an unused HP LaserJet M234dwe printer/scanner that someone bought for over $200 in 2021. I got it for $10 at a thrift store. Whether or not it was unused, that's anyone's debate (it didn't have the box so right away I was skeptical). What I thought was a great deal, in hindsight would later turn to be frustrating with a company that has long degraded from its simpler days.

I didn't know it already have a toner in it, which made me having to go find and buy another one a spared cost. So, about a few days ago, I went to try and get it to print. It wouldn't print. It'd just turn on, seemingly budge the paper inside and won't do a thing. I tried everything I thought I could, from using HP's bloated mess of an app they have called HP Smart (or HP Dumbingly Frustrating) to trying to work around the basics of making the printer work with Windows 10 with proprietary drivers.

Still wouldn't print a single page, both testing and just a demo page. So I call HP tech support and I had two rounds with them, both ending in unresolved cases. I was informed that because this machine is out of warranty, which I didn't care, and if I needed extended support, I would have to pay $20 for paid technical support. Additionally, the other option was to pay monthly for a newer printer.

Both options were out of the question for me, because the problem wasn't just because the printer wasn't printing, but also the HP shitty app couldn't be bothered to register my printer because there's some unknown connection timeout with their shitty cloud servers or something. So I took to the HP site to try and bring the issue there. During the midst of my frustration, I worked around what I could say about how utterly useless and careless HP is. That is what lead to the banning here in this image and I don't regret it.

This is what HP has degraded to, all this time. Moral of the story - get a printer that's not HP.

The problem with gatekeepers, is that their reputation is trashed by people who take it to the extreme. I still feel that gatekeepers in general are important to have for communities and fandoms. But the kind of gatekeepers we could use more of, are ones who're actually not just weeding out the fakers from the authentic types, but to actually educate a little about what a community is all about from being devoted to a basic fan.

I see too many times, people running around with wiccan stars and satanic symbols, but are only wearing them for cool-factor purposes. But if you came up to one of them to hold a brief conversation as to whether or not they even care of or know the meaning behind the symbols that they're projecting, more often times than not, they are largely using them because they looked cool to them.

Now as a gatekeeper in that position who is asking the questions, would it be wiser to actually educate them or just scream at them crazily? You could educate them a little and if the answers still boil down to "tee hee, I just think they cool anyways, I don't care" then you're permitted to brand them as bullshitters and an insult to actual people who take these symbols to heart.

You just don't simply want a lot of people misrepresenting and confusing something you care about, because it is damaging an identity at the end of the day. That's why gatekeepers are important to have around.

Boston Red Sox vs New York Yankees

These days, the rivalry isn't always as high-stakes, it's more like the history of the two teams are being used as an excuse for high ticket prices for both respective towns. But, it used to have had a lot of heat going through in the 2000s when players like Derek Jeter and Pedro Martinez were active for both teams.

2004 was the year the Red Sox really stuck it to the Yankees by still being the only team in the MLB post season, to come back from a 0-3 deficit, win the series and eventually sweep the Cardinals for a World Series in 86 years at that time.

And while it was still a great feeling, for the Red Sox to win a few more titles in later years while the Yankees currently is in a 16-year drought for championships. You still have to weigh in the teams as to which team honestly is more successful and is able to make moves the other team can't and even as a Red Sox fan, it still ends up being the Yankees. The Red Sox would need to win more titles than the Yankees to even contest the success rate of the Yankees. The Yankees do appear dominating every other season, including the current one, while the Red Sox either keeps squeaking in the Wild Card series or just outright not making the playoffs.

So what other rivalries, fiction or non-fiction, is still considered a rivalry, but it's so one-sided that it makes you wonder why it is.