[Lorric]

I will share something. Something I find ironic. Yesterday I started watching Battlestar Galactica, the new one. When it first came out I was completely against it. It felt like some bastardisation that just slapped the BSG name on it to get the power of that name behind it. This time, I approached it with a new mindset, to pretend it has nothing to do with the old BSG, it's just an original work. Starbuck isn't Starbuck, Starbuck is a pilot called Kara Thrace who just happens to use the same callsign. The Cylons just happen to have the same name as the old cylons but are a completely different thing. The show just happens to have the same name as another show that was on TV a long time ago called Battlestar Galactica, etc. And it's worked and I've ended up really enjoying it on these terms and watched the first 5 episodes. When I first saw Diaspora, my first thought, I still remember this clearly was "what a waste" thinking about what was going into it, when it was for something I utterly disliked. But now, now I just might play Diaspora sometime...

It's not the only thing that made me try it, I was looking at the Diaspora board recently and wondering how such a thing could be so popular that I hated, and was I missing something, but SteelEagle has certainly played a role in nudging me towards the decision to give the show another chance. It's all been about the way I went into it the first time, expecting something so different to what I got, so my mind was just screaming "No! No, this is wrong! This is stupid! It's not supposed to be like this!" all the time I was watching. But now, just taking it on it's own merits with no preconceptions about what to expect about the show, I'm really enjoying it.

So in a strange twist, I feel a sense of thankfulness towards SteelEagle for this, and yet I know he's going to utterly despise me for it.

Indeed. Countertrolling is a waste of your time and energy. You're just giving someone power over you.

And here you are, doing it.

Where?

[Flipside]

Sometimes I wish BabelFish had a setting for Tantrum...

[General Battuta]

I will share something. Something I find ironic. Yesterday I started watching Battlestar Galactica, the new one. When it first came out I was completely against it. It felt like some bastardisation that just slapped the BSG name on it to get the power of that name behind it. This time, I approached it with a new mindset, to pretend it has nothing to do with the old BSG, it's just an original work. Starbuck isn't Starbuck, Starbuck is a pilot called Kara Thrace who just happens to use the same callsign. The Cylons just happen to have the same name as the old cylons but are a completely different thing. The show just happens to have the same name as another show that was on TV a long time ago called Battlestar Galactica, etc. And it's worked and I've ended up really enjoying it on these terms and watched the first 5 episodes. When I first saw Diaspora, my first thought, I still remember this clearly was "what a waste" thinking about what was going into it, when it was for something I utterly disliked. But now, now I just might play Diaspora sometime...

It's not the only thing that made me try it, I was looking at the Diaspora board recently and wondering how such a thing could be so popular that I hated, and was I missing something, but SteelEagle has certainly played a role in nudging me towards the decision to give the show another chance. It's all been about the way I went into it the first time, expecting something so different to what I got, so my mind was just screaming "No! No, this is wrong! This is stupid! It's not supposed to be like this!" all the time I was watching. But now, just taking it on it's own merits with no preconceptions about what to expect about the show, I'm really enjoying it.

So in a strange twist, I feel a sense of thankfulness towards SteelEagle for this, and yet I know he's going to utterly despise me for it.

Indeed. Countertrolling is a waste of your time and energy. You're just giving someone power over you.

And here you are, doing it.

Where?

hahahahahahahahahaha, christ

[Lorric]

Ehhhhh, whatever. If you're going to go back to that, forget it.

[General Battuta]

You just posted

[giant block of engagement with a troll]

"Where am I engaging with a troll?"

Now whether or not countertrolling is A Valuable Skill and whether or not you're any good at it, that's a bit of an oversight, laddy.

[Lorric]

You just posted

[giant block of engagement with a troll]

"Where am I engaging with a troll?"

Now whether or not countertrolling is A Valuable Skill and whether or not you're any good at it, that's a bit of an oversight, laddy.

I'm talking to everyone. Trolling is not my motivation.

Now, tell me where I'm supposed to be trolling before that.

[General Battuta]

The last thing this thread needs is to be Lorric'd on top of its auspicious start. PM if you want to be walked through it further.

[Lorric]

The last thing this thread needs is to be Lorric'd on top of its auspicious start. PM if you want to be walked through it further.

You're blocking pms.

[yuezhi]

Y'all are all delusional I say (except for you E )

[Lorric]

Never had any intention of pming with me, did you, "laddy".

Next time, keep your condescension and petty games to yourself Battuta.

[General Battuta]

No, was just grocery shopping. Try now.

[The E]

For ****'s sake, children.

This whole "don't engage with the troll" business is stupid. Yes, I know you're not supposed to engage (and thereby validate) them. But where's the fun in that?

Seriously, PH, Batts, try being a little less "this is how you are right on the internet". Or if you absolutely feel the need to be right on the net, explain to all us wrong people why we are wrong and how we can be right.

[headdie]

Y'all are all delusional I say (except for you E )

much justice here

[Phantom Hoover]

Wait, is that a necessary skill now?

well no but if you can't do that you should just ignore them rather than producing five pages straight of juicy troll food

[Luis Dias]

Yeah Batts, you managed to be more trolling than the original poster, congrats on that one!

We're just having fun and fun is never something that should be tsc'd tsc'd. This is the perfect thread to be all nonsensical or off topic or stupid or counter trolling or just fail to do so, or trolling everyone else trying to do just th.... OH NOW I GET IT!

PS: Phantom, stop being a bore.

[Luis Dias]

Or if you absolutely feel the need to be right on the net, explain to all us wrong people why we are wrong and how we can be right.

Jesus ****ing Christ. Do you have any idea the pandora box you're unleashing here? And to think this thread had some nonsensical stopid fun in it. Now it will be flooded by peer-reviewed condescending pseudo-academic pandering about the "socio-macropolitical apotheosis and neuro-ontologicalnessness" of the taboo act of "feeding" a "troll".

[MatthTheGeek]

ttuta's reaction right now:

[General Battuta]

XKCD does remain really bad, this is true

e: rock band owns though

[Sarkoth]

Come now guys, don't be so angry with each other. This really should not turn into an argument about the validity of countertrolling. Because that is pretty much the community getting on each other's throats for naught. And that's far worse than feeding the troll. Some try to starve the troll, some try to overfeed him so that he bursts. Both viewpoints are valid reactions. But if we start to argue about what's better, the troll always wins. And that should not be allowed to happen.

It doesn't matter who's right. This is the internet. The more you're convincedto be right, the wronger you'll start to act after a while. And if you're wrong to begin with, things start to get really nasty. So let's just not go there.

Edit: Let me try to make this post less serious by using comedic relief. Here. An erect penis.   8==D    Most macho thing evarrr!

[General Battuta]