Saturday, August 30, 2008
Debunking Ego accusations: Because it's size was too epic for comment box.
Dear Giant,
Being a writer yourself, you should have some literary experience and thus know that most prominent writers never use CAPITAL LETTERS for serious emphasis; it's almost always italics. The only time you see capital letters being used for this purpose is from the scripts of amateurs or the internet. Or when italics are unavailable.
Except in the comment box, italics are available for blogspot.
And before you jump to an assumption, non-capitalised does not necessarily confirm a non-joke, nor vice-versa.
And now to do this wall of text case-by-case:
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Benedict as PREDATOR
Benedict looking for girls on the internet. I don't know how you missed this, but the voice of the cameraman - was clearly tongue-in-cheek. The manner in which I showed people was the same. It's not meant to make people disgusted at Benedict or defame him. For proof:
Whereas TOFU, and I suspect, quite a number of people were deriding Benedict's slow mental capacity, I eventually turned around and decided to put a stop to it on (mainly) a personal level.
How many times have I mentioned that I watch porn and alluded to taking pictures of Mikana? If that isn't a glaring double standard, and in turn an obvious indication of the joking tone of the video...
And I haven't even begun on how 'predator' is another obvious exaggeration, which does not even depend on whether the video is legit.
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Pebble Fuckers
Obviously you don't consider me as part of the Pebble Fort authors, since I myself am a "Pebble Fucker".
It's a obvious joke, dammit.
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Thaksin's daughter
Referring to someone from our school, random reference (Ask TOFU).
4.
Anwar's coffee boy
So you guys can use it as a joke to harass our buddy but I can't use it to say I'm going to beat him?
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ALL YOU FUCKS
THIS IS NOT IN CAPITAL LETTERS LOLOL
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All your base will belong to ME!
Besides from making no sense whatsoever besides to internet pedestrians (and I don't mean the noobs that frequent Singapore sites and blogspot only), it's another in-joke (Ask Panzer). Even if you took it seriously, I have no idea what sort of offensive material you read into it.
7.
PREPARE TO GET PWNED MOTHERFRAKKERS!!!!!!!!!111oneoneeleventyNINETHOUSAAAAAAAAND
There are more than enough indications of being less-than-serious in this "statement". But yes, I do want to pwn as much as I can. Link me to your explanation how this is more offensive than "One down"? Is it because of the lang- O DEAR THE LANGUAGE
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As a whole
Simple logic: If I had a large ego, I would believe that there would be no need for me to work harder. What, you think theat post was sarcastic in proclaiming that I would work harder and try to get marks to rival the best (real-life identities of the nicknames Anwar's coffee boy, Thaksin's daughter, Mikana, not to mention ourselves as the Pebble Fuckers, aren't exactly getting seven F9s)? The post, if you read into it at a deeper level is (ironically) a simple "I gotta work harder". Even at face value it says more or less the same thing, and as proven above, the face has been made over-satirical so that you either take it as a joke or you go read the subtext, which in light of the fact that the subtext says "I suck, I need to work harder" makes your accusation of ego absolutely ludicrous.
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And to drive home the nail in the coffin, I posted that conversation I had with TOFU, which gave you another easy interpretative route to follow: I was "drunk" and it was all satire.
10.
Coincidentally I just realized I can use HTML to insert italics in the comment box. Damn.
11.
And (yes, I am aiming for overkill) just in case this is on your mind (or you're withholding it for backup argumentative ammo), I do think Predator and Prey Part 2 stinks. It lacked imagination, lacked believability, lacked deft and depth, and was worse than free porn. It was shit. But most importantly, this is a professional opinion and has nothing to do with you personally.
12. In conclusion,
EGO EGO EGO EGO YOU ALL SUCK AT A MATHS BLA BLA BLA
14. There is no thirteen.
15. ?????
16. Profit!!!
Yours sincerely,
A big faggot
16 comments:
- the author said...
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tl;dr
- August 30, 2008 at 9:10 PM
- LimeX20A said...
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lawls but why'd it have to end at 16! sixteen oh my sweet sixteen...
- August 30, 2008 at 9:32 PM
- LimeX20A said...
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btw nice pic cs
- August 30, 2008 at 11:14 PM
- K said...
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Right. Exactly what I expected you to say, so I guess its case closed. kthxbyedunflamemi
- August 30, 2008 at 11:55 PM
- the author said...
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ZOMG IS ZAT A SNUB
/fireball_active_mark_ii - August 31, 2008 at 12:20 AM
- Giant said...
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well thank you so much for shedding light on the matter. just so u know, writing in caps denotes screaming, like "GET THE FUCK OUT!" or "SUIT YOURSELF!" etc. etc. etc.
- August 31, 2008 at 5:22 AM
- Giant said...
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furthermore, you specified
"And the rest of you - The Pebble Fuckers..."
i consider you to be a pebblefort author, its just that you yourself wrote "the rest of us"..
besides, we all agreed to drop the anwar joke. - August 31, 2008 at 6:06 AM
- LimeX20A said...
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NEVER EVER drop th anwar joke. NEVER
- August 31, 2008 at 7:12 AM
- the author said...
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17.
Read what I wrote
Whenever I do serious emphasis, I use italics. Even if you haven't noticed that trend (which I think I've been following since forevar), you take the words of someone who was screaming incoherently seriously?
Why don't you go do some cross-reference and find out if anyone else actually thought that part of my post was completely serious? Go on.
18.
Writing "rest of us" denotes that I was resolving to pwn myself. To avoid major logic error I had to exclude myself temporarily. For the purpose of a joke, which in the first place you missed.
19.
We all agreed to drop the anwar joke? Didn't a demotivational poster featuring "Anwar Style" just surface a couple of days ago? Were you condemning it or grinning along, Giant? Did you even give a damn about it until now, where you can use it for argumentative ammunition?
Points 1, 3, 6 through 9, and 14 remain unaddressed.
Points - August 31, 2008 at 9:26 AM
- Giant said...
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you know, actually i am sure many thought you were serious until you actually bothered to clear it up. as for point 18, common sense would tell us all that you, being the speaker, would naturally exclude yourself with the usage of "the rest". if you so wish to include yourself, shouldn't the proper article be "we"?
and the anwar joke i am referring to, is the joke that links anwar to arif. did the poster mention anything about my dear friend? i am afraid not.
as for points 1,3,6-9,14, i really don't give a rat's ass about them. you want me to address them, then please, undress them first. i have better stuff to do, as my subjects tested, unfortunately, do not include any coursework. so go, spend your time frolicking while we the REST OF US "pebblefuckers" spend our time burying our noses in our pathetic little A Maths textbooks. - August 31, 2008 at 11:15 AM
- K said...
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First of all..Anwar style is MY joke. Therefore unrealated to both of you
Secondly, caps does denote screaming while Italics denote sarcasm. Its the global convention.
And Noseh, the articles used WERE a little misleading, but very much understandable.
So lets drop this OK? - August 31, 2008 at 2:00 PM
- the author said...
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20.
All those who actually think that I seriously look down on people who take A-Maths, please say so.
All those who feel that that post where I derided all of you as "fucks" was completely serious, please say so.
21.
Apparently you're so steamed at me now you're not bothering to read something before rebutting it. Go reread point 18.
22.
Don't give me that shitty excuse. We all know that whenever we mention the Anwar scandal we're poking fun at you-know-who.
23.
Looks like you got a little too butthurt to do much else but shoot irrelevance at me, so here's my concluding statement:
Grow some balls. Next time when you go out into the world (assuming you're not going to stay in your hidey-hole) people are going to insult you. You are going to be insulted. And what's worse, you won't be able to do anything about it. Now if you're going to wet your panties over "I'm gonna beat yaaaa!!111 fuckers!!!111" Then you're going to be screwed(or possibly mediocre) at any job you go into that requires human interaction.
In essence, all I said was that I would try to get really good O Level results, even though my DPA is successful. You (hypocritically) nitpick at all the small insignificant little side jokes and then you don't bother to back up your accusations. Well, in all honesty, you can fuck off.
And get some balls. Oh wait I said that already - August 31, 2008 at 2:05 PM
- the author said...
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No Panzerz, italics can denote screaming. Most professional novels I've read use italics in place of caps.
And even if I'm wrong about italics/caps, the content, tone, and style of what I typed still all indicates half-serious.
Footnote: To pre-empt an imminent accusation: yeah I'm fucking stubborn. - August 31, 2008 at 2:11 PM
- Giant said...
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yes, i agree. you are stubborn.
professional novels use italics, but look around, you are not writing a novel. in fact, i believe you just cooked that up to save your own half-boiled balls.
besides, if i am unable to discern your half-serious tone from your post, and so does Panzerz, then this says something, doesn't it?
point 18 and 21. you had to excuse yourself temporarily, sure. how are we to know? we are not reading your mind as you type it out. hence, forgive us all, oh great writer, that we do not get your little attempt at humour.
point 22. if you actually bother to understand my poster, you would note that i have made absolutely no reference to our dear friend. it is you who think that every single anwar joke is part of a package, that comes with we-know-who included FOC.
regarding my nitpicking. yes, i nitpick. everyone nitpicks. and yes, so do you.
besides, I SAY SO TO POINT 20. yes, i do. and i'm sure its not just me. - September 1, 2008 at 9:41 AM
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24.
You're right, I'm not writing a novel. But it is still my strong feeling that the jokes were glaringly obvious as jokes. Seriously, it's like you converted all my text to perfect, times new roman, medium-sized plaintext and removed all the "OVER9000" and sexual references and then you read it. Holy shit man, doesn't the tone of something tell you anything about the message?
25.
I directly quote Panzerz:
"...were a little misleading, but very much understandable."
See the difference between the bolded words? Who's the one making up shit now?
18.
Social logic dictates that when you insult a group, you don't include yourself in it. This is basic common sense on the same level as not walking around naked in public. You're not enough of a dumbass to not know that, so: Get some better excuses, and don't insult our intelligence.
26.
Once again, you display your superficiality. Do I need to use the word "nigger" to make a racist comment against blacks? Do you need to verbally tell a girl you love her for her to get the message? So what if you make no reference to something? We're all social studies students here. I take Literature and History as well; I've been analyzing subtexts since Secondary One. The point is that even if you don't intend to send a certain message, like your claim goes, people will still read things into it that you never intended. You can hide all sorts of shit in English - accidentally hide them even - another fact that once again, someone like you should know very well, but has chosen to ignore.
You read an egoistic attitude from my post. I did not intend such an impression. Case in point: your intention for something doesn't matter as much as you make it out to be.
The poster is plain and simple bandwagon-jumping. Partially on the demotivational poster trend me and TOFU started, and partially on the Anwar jokes concerning you-know-who. If the poster really has nothing to do with you-know-who, and will not communicate such a message, then why don't you show it to the group of people who are in the joke, including you-know-who. I guarantee you that many of them will at least associate it partially with our jokes on you-know-who.
Come on. Prove that if you intend to tell people something, they will believe you just because you intended to, or because you made no direct references to anything else.
Just one more question. Do you honestly think that in the days after the September 11 attacks, if you release a movie showing planes crashing into buildings, it won't disturb people? Seriously, learn to think and consider the context of things. It doesn't have consequences for you this time, since you-know-who is a friend, but I for one believe that Mr Kumar was fully justified in berating me for wearing that "Sexists" shirt in India. Think about that.
27.
Go ahead, start with Panzerz.
No wait, don't.
Panzerz, in his last statement, clearly gave ground to both your side and my side of the argument. Did you bother to think for a moment about what he was trying to do? Perhaps even considered that maybe Panzerz was sitting on the fence because he wanted to stay on the damn fence?
If Panzerz wants to pick a side, he will make it clear which side he wants to pick. You don't need to twist his words (refer to point 25 for evidence) to make it more convenient for you.
28.
Saying that since "everyone nitpicks", that nulls the implications and significance nitpicking, is as shallow as saying "everyone is a Christian, so I should be one" or "Hitler killing Jews was wrong, so police should never carry guns that can kill". Once again you ignore the context and take things at face value.
The significance of your nitpicking is this, in case you really need me to spell it out for you: Nitpicking is unecessary. It's calling a certain movie terrible because an actress flubbed her lines a few times, or because of a minor continuity error. It's a sign of either bias (in order to achieve an aim, such as you trying to make yourself look "right"), or stupidity.
Yes, the stuff we learn in SS does make sense.
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besides, I SAY SO TO POINT 20. yes, i do. and i'm sure its not just me.
And I'm sure you're right.
I'm also sure that in by next year, Peak Oil will have been subverted by aliens giving us new tech, Korea will be re-united, Taiwan will fight a war with China and win, women will be able to fertilize themsleves, I'll be the President of Sengal, and the moon will become our new source of high-grade cheese.
I don't give a damn about what you're sure of right now, what with you missing out simple social logic just so you can fulfill your innate desire to "win". You want to convince me and learn not to debate like an noob, give me facts;examples;logic;something solid, and once again, don't insult our intelligence. - September 1, 2008 at 11:32 PM
- Giant said...
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fine. you win this argument. congratulations on evading everything i threw at you. pop the champagne. pop the cherries. whatever.
it still does not change the fact that my opinion of you has not changed. in fact, i really failed to get your inside joke with tofu, which you have posted in the form of the conversation excerpt. in fact, that was where i really thought you had the ego problems. so forgive me if i couldn't get your humor because i am so superficial and maybe because i do not take literature, history and may not be as good is SS as you.
so go ahead. snub me now. show the whole world how you have successfully managed to pwn my ass in this argument. go on. i know you are tempted to. fuel your ego. maybe it will allow you to win Mikana. but really, she deserves better. - September 2, 2008 at 4:20 PM
is it just me or is that ego speaking?
August 30, 2008 11:49 AM
Explain plz
August 30, 2008 5:59 PM
no actually, i'd rather not.
August 30, 2008 7:14 PM
What is it with this mentality that I can't handle anything but jokes? Is it because of India? What, my 'faggot' comments got to you? Who's the sensitive one then?
August 30, 2008 7:16 PM
on the contrary, i firmly believe that you can handle jokes, and anything else you wish to do. i am merely displeased by your strangely oversized ego that seems to be pushing people around. certain comments of yours could be some personal joke of yours, but i'm afraid i do not possess psychic powers, hence pardon me if i do not share your joke. pwn my ass? bring it.
August 30, 2008 7:46 PM
Whoa, don't leave it at "certain comments of yours" like some sort of wuss. Specify all the shit you have with me. YOU bring it.
August 30, 2008 7:48 PM
your post "Benedict as PREDATOR". you wrote "And the rest of you - The Pebble Fuckers, Thaksin's daughter and Anwar's coffee boy! ALL YOU FUCKS! All your base will belong to ME!
PREPARE TO GET PWNED MOTHERFRAKKERS!!!!!!!!!111oneoneeleventyNINETHOUSAAAAAAAAND"
care to explain please?