Comments on: The Ass-termath

By: The Philosopher

The Philosopher — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:58:51 +0000

*intentional actuation and observation of the implications of it.

By: The Philosopher

The Philosopher — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:55:38 +0000

This entire “saga” is a rather captivating and very well executed demonstration of the flaws of the “cloud”, Myspace and its ilk, content leeches as opposed to creators, excessively lazy users, and many other phenomena that you complain of in ASCII. My sentiment toward this “prank” itself is neither one of delight nor one of disgust, but as a fellow “online anthropologist” as it were, I commend you for the intentionally actuating and observing the implications of it.

By: Kat

Kat — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:13:07 +0000

It seems to be the thing to do. I have had death threats on YouTube (yes, YouTube…the bottom of the barrel when it comes to comments) simply because I provided content that was shocking. The amusing aspect to it was that:

1. The footage was not designed to shock. It was not for the purpose of grossing people out but more to give my friend further proof of how much more of a dork I can be while thier back is turned. Humor. Having fun. Laughing at myself

2. I did not spam this link everywhere, the commenters’ friends likely did. In fact, it landed on Portal of Evil TV where they like to showcase things that the typical /b/tard crowd finds gross, ugly (in that non mainstream way), etc

Who is really to blame? LOL. Your post hits the nail right on the head. Ignorance shouldnt be an excuse but what can you do about the “precious snowflakes.” Someone’s gotta teach them that the internet is not all bunnies and rainbows. LOL

This is great *adds you to google reader*

By: Brian Macker

Brian Macker — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:45:57 +0000

Fabulous rationalization and nice touch trying to make your critics feel guilty.

I’d like to see that picture that deflated your boner. Got a link?

By: Raltar

Raltar — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 06:11:28 +0000

Ha ha! I read both of your stories and they are great. While I would like to agree with whoever said “This is absolutely great, I hope he keeps doing it until the entire universal contingency of stupid people are forced to see Goatse until the end of their days.” I won’t because I know that will not happen.

But I’m just glad to see that there is alteast one other intelligent person on the internet who takes to time to write these sorts of things, doesn’t overlook details and has the good sense to know when something is funny.

Not to mention someone who knows that a site doesn’t need some fancy interface, outrageous color sheme or buttloads of images to get a point acorss. Text rocks.

By: Carnildo

Carnildo — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:43:16 +0000

Bright grey on black is the tool of the devil. The only true color schemes are grey on black and grey on blue.

By: vernes

vernes — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 16:35:02 +0000

“How dare you replace the image which I was hotlinking from you, using your bandwidth and thus making you pay for MY use of it?”

Oh boohoo, someone made you look bad by changing something on HIS OWN WEBSITE.
This IS the attitude we have towards criminality. Someone killed your family but YOU are on court for assaulting the killer.

But truth be said, we all complain, and we like to complain. Its part of internet, and without it, it wouldn’t be internet.

By: Megatron

Megatron — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 07:51:09 +0000

I didn’t get any donuts

By: davisrei

davisrei — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 04:19:50 +0000

I love the prank, and the bandwidth stealing pirates got what they deserved, but the nay-sayers have a point here too. The only problem that I have with any of this is that the people who downloaded the profiles were innocent and ignorant to the crime. So it’s a bit like puting feces in peoples’ soft drinks because the soft-drink company stole your formula. Sure, you could say that they should have done a spectral analysis on the soda before drinking it, and were at fault because they didn’t know how, but they didn’t technically commit any intent to defraud you. Next time, I recommend alum (yuck, but not scarring).

By: Wah

Wah — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:55:54 +0000

Nice follow-up on that one. As mentioned, I found the whole episode highly entertaining, both from the asspect of listening to you type and the content of the story.

That being said…nice to see you retain that bit of humanity called empathy. Some of the stuff that comes out of the barrel of the internet is indeed more than some can handle. Ignorance is a sword with many edges.

Either way, you’ve introduced a few, err..an assload, more people to the *true* nature of the Net, and that, ultimately, is a positive thing.