Hiro Protagonist

So you think there is never a good troll and if there is, it's called something else and not a troll? Is it so hard to accept that there could be good trolls (whether it's a person or post).

So you have no problem with the other 2%?

I watched The After. It's Chris Carter doing his thing. He even said the universe is set in the Millenium universe. There are some needed areas of improvement / polishing. but I was intrigued and would like to see more, it has potential. It hasn't been green lit, so we won't know if there'll be a second episode. Maybe in 6 months we find out if it's been green lit or cancelled.

Nice little attack there with my 'perspective' alan. So if someone rickrolled you, you think they're a bully? And I'm not talking about the bullies who are doing it for fun and giggles. Nice try anyway. I'm talking about the practical jokes that are played on each other and can laugh off. In real life we call them pranks or practical jokes, on the internet we call it trolling. And clearly some pranks are just wrong in real life. While others like we see on TV where people get pranked, they laugh it off. And the audience will laugh too. It's a sweeping generalisation that all trolling is bad and the graph shows that. By the graph, one would assume that if you do any type of trolling or prank at all, then you're a bad person. It doesn't show the types of trolling or practical jokes.

There is no clear cut definition. And there is a lot of disagreement with what a modern day troll is. You're definition is very simplistic. A troll could also churn the waters with compliments, practical jokes, humour, anything to get a response and practices a form of catch and release. Also can use the bait and switch tactic like rickrolling and usually associated with online forums. The word troll has become the big bad of the internet, especially in recent years with bad cases of bullying reported by the media and it seems a lot of bad stuff which isn't trolling gets lumped into it as well.

Why not just say troll. Using other words like pranks doesn't make it any better. Getting Rick-rolled with a link is also a troll. Does it make that person a psychopathic narcissistic sadist? Probably, considering it's Rick Astley. And if I got rick-rolled, I wouldn't tell the person who did it to me that he's a psychopath. I'd say, well done. you got me. And can see the fun and humour in it. And I don't need to go to other forums to know that certain types of trolling is bad. Also reading the linked article, they also include griefing in games as trolling which it isn't. It's griefing. Same as bullying is bullying. It makes me wonder what the authors of the study define as trolling and what they've included. It looks like they've included things that isn't trolling into trolling and the results are skewed.

Much like your thread title and OP post? A straw-man making sweeping generalisations that all internet trolls are horrible people? Or do you have an alternative view that not all internet trolls are horrible people.

^ I thought that was the Codex or Missy's forum after BIS closed. Also never heard of Winterwind.

Totally agree on both accounts. It wouldn't surprised me if the research is a knee-jerk reaction to the media stories over the last few years of internet trolling. The research (and I use that term loosely) seems to paint all trolls with a sweeping generalisation of psychopathic narcissistic sadists. And as Meshugger points out, you can have trolls that do it for the fun and giggles without actually hurting anyone or do it to get people thinking out of their own closed world views.

On the old BIS forums, 6'8 Italian Warlord posted a troll about seeing a Tarrasque in the Oasis in BG2. I never saw that as anti-social behaviour and damaging to society, more like seeing how many people would be naïve enough to believe it. Obviously he was having fun.

I don't like the commercial side of it. I was already going out Saturday night with my partner.

What happened to howling1? I'm afraid to ask. Is he still alive or just vanished like so many other posters.

Same with posters like Caelis. He was funny.

I recommend it. You watch the characters evolve (or devolve) even though you know the ending of the series, but it's the journey that's great to watch. The original Psycho was set in the present in its day and the TV series is also set in the present. But obviously the present today is a lot different to the present 50 years ago, so things that we take for granted today (mobiles phones) seem out of place compared to the original movie. I thought it was going to be set in the 1960s, but they choose the present. Maybe it was too expensive to do everything, 1960s style.

Captain Phillips. Really enjoyed it. Always wondered how pirates hijack a container ship. 9/10.

Game of Thrones Season 4: Fire and Ice Foreshadowing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5iS3tULXMQ&feature=youtu.be

If Preacher is anything like AMC did to The Walking Dead, then they should stop now. How you could take good characters like Andrea from the comic and turn her into one of the most hated on the show takes a lot of talent. There was a lot of missed opportunities with TWD and no need to change the story so much from the comic.

"Tulip O'Hare, Jesse's beer guzzling vampire ex-girlfriend..." And this show is a non-starter. You can't combine Tulip and Cassidy, not when their interactions are so important to the story. I think that's a mistake. Because on the below link, it says: http://www.slashfilm.com/preacher-development-confirmed-seth-rogen-and-evan-goldberg-scripting-pilot/ So it looks like Tulip and Cassidy are both in.

One court in Victoria, Australia thinks so (in certain circumstances) http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/is-this-child-abuse-the-courts-think-so-20120711-21wdb.html

Will going to Absolute Zero create a Black Hole?

Been reading Battle Angel Alita Last Order, The Walking Dead and X-Files Season 10.

First season was the best imo. I enjoyed Coven. Both Asylum and Coven had faults and not sure if the writers can get back to the awesomeness of Season 1.

The 'II' name is just a place holder for now. There's some reasons for the 'II' name but don't want to say for now. This name I registered back in 2004 and have mostly posted in WoT which is why there's only 3 posts to my name. Posting in WoT doesn't add to your post count.

No idea. What's wrong with your donkey?

I had to look this up. Gravity Falls is an American animated television series produced by Disney... The series was created by Alex Hirsch a former writer for The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack and Fish Hooks. Intrigued, I looked up The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack. I'm guessing the writer is not doing something similar to his previous work on The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack.