Thursday, October 25, 2007

I am bored. Again

Blogging looks to be something that will appear in my busy schedule regularly! Busy.. haha...


Rant and rave,

I have something against stupid people, I find them incredibly irritating. Stupid people are the people who can't think, these are the same people who will tell you they are right despite the 1000000++ facts that tell them they are wrong, and they aren't capable of thinking with any sort of clarity, because most of them can't exercise any control over their emotions. These are the same fools brimming with confidence despite having been proven wrong repeatedly, they make the same mistakes again and again, without any sort of improvement, yet continue to have that misguided confidence in themselves. Now if these people would keep to themselves and live in their own little village where their species would die out I would have absolutely nothing against them, but it annoys me to no end when they try and impose their stupidity on other people.

A good example I would take from would be from DOTA(popular LAN game in CC's), now I've been playing this game for a very long time, although I've stopped playing for more than a month, and I cannot describe just how irritated I get when someone who has little or no skill whatsoever in the game tries to shoot off commands to better players, it's one thing when your a top notch player and you tell people what to do, its another thing entirely when your score is 0 kills 10 deaths and your tell a person whose on a godlike streak what to do. Of course anyone who is actually good at the game would tell you that getting a godlike streak doesn't always mean that player is a really good player, but when your score is 0 kill and 10 deaths aka negative godlike, it's fairly obvious that your not up there among the top players. It has nothing to do with your 'mood', if you made a mistake and you can't even work out what mistake you made that means your not up to par, go improve yourself.

Another type, the most common type, are known as N00bs. You can't really differentiate between the stupid players and N00bs, since N00bs are usually stupid people. Not all of them though, some are morons, others are idiots. N00bs are the players who have been playing for a long time, but never seem to able to grasp the basic details of the game, they play for hours on end every day, but they never seem to improve. That itself isn't a problem, but n00bs are not only bad at the game. Since they've been playing for so long, they consider themselves to be 'pros'.

How is a person, who has little or no knowledge on the game able to judge just exactly how good they are? Let me give you and example, let's say some idiot thinks 1 + 1 = 5. He has so little mathematical skills that he doesn't even realize just how far off he is from the correct answer, so when asked to rate himself he says, "I'm pretty good at maths". Put 10 people like this in a game together and they start complimenting each other on how good each of them is, and everyone starts thinking, "Hey, I'm a PRO!!", well guess what? Your all equally incompetent. (theres actually a term for this, its called false consensus). These are the people who go to cash prize tournaments and get wiped out in the first 2 rounds.

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