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  • Poll [119 votes]: With age comes Cynicism
Subject: With age comes Cynicism
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R.I.P. DeathPimp. Never Ending Respect.

"Posted by: Kickimanjaro
I'm trying to become an '04, but it's not working too well."

Poll: With age comes Cynicism  [closed]
Yeah, I can agree with that:  67%
(80 Votes)
Shut up you're wrong:  33%
(39 Votes)
Total Votes: 119

Speaking from experience, many members that i've known through the years started as charming young lads wanting to get involved with the community, soon developing an Elitist hatred for almost anything and anyone involved with bungie.

The word Hatred, though, is subjective in this sense. We keep coming back to this website day after day... through light and through dark... just to -blam!- and complain about random -blam!- that. I can't tell if it's a love for arguing, or something entirely different.

As your account ages, would you say YOU have become more cynical through the years? What exactly keeps you coming back, aside from 1 upping everyone?


Also, Dragons.

*editors note- The moment i posted this i noticed a grammatical error and threw a few explicits at my wall.

[Edited on 09.06.2012 10:04 PM PDT]

  • 09.06.2012 10:02 PM PDT

GOAT

I'm only cynical to the cynics here. Otherwise I keep myself(relatively) decent.

  • 09.06.2012 10:04 PM PDT

Subject: If you saw a meteor coming toward Earth, what would you do?Posted by: juniorbandit96
Butter my ass, turn around, spread open my butt cheeks, and say "Right here mutha-blam!-a!!"

Join Planetary Annihilation and Speed Haven

Posted by: dmg04
What exactly keeps you coming back, aside from 1 upping everyone?
As my account ages my age relative to the average active account age is greater. I feel better with each passing day.

Just kidding, I'm here for the lame jokes and dragons.

[Edited on 09.06.2012 10:08 PM PDT]

  • 09.06.2012 10:06 PM PDT

Posted by: dmg04
What exactly keeps you coming back
The lame jokes. In the most literal sense possible. The humor I find here is a one of a kind energy, and I enjoy coming back here time after time again because the community is (usually) pleasant and fun to be a part of.

  • 09.06.2012 10:09 PM PDT

When I grow up I want to be bitter and spiteful.

"i liked the reality where everything was on fire better"
-legato on remedial chaos theory

Changed in attitude surely, but I would say more realistic, not cynical.

Also, cannot resist choosing the poll option of "you're wrong".

  • 09.06.2012 10:09 PM PDT
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Posted by: evilcam
Bobcast is paid in MILF blind dates.

I think the -blam!-ing and complaining is more a consequence of being dark. It seems like a satisfactory way to pass the time until we get more Destiny info. IMO

  • 09.06.2012 10:10 PM PDT

Subject: If you saw a meteor coming toward Earth, what would you do?Posted by: juniorbandit96
Butter my ass, turn around, spread open my butt cheeks, and say "Right here mutha-blam!-a!!"

Join Planetary Annihilation and Speed Haven

Posted by: Duck duck DEATH
Also, cannot resist choosing the poll option of "you're wrong".
You just made me realize, I almost never vote in polls, even if I respond with a set choice, I don't go back and pick the choice.

  • 09.06.2012 10:10 PM PDT

"That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.

Now try how and why."

I'd actually say that I've gotten less cynical since my first days here at b.net. I got such a demeanor at an early age from my father, but I've grown to be far less misanthropic and nihilistic.

Funny how it works.

  • 09.06.2012 10:11 PM PDT

"There's daggers in men's smiles." - Donalbain, Macbeth, Act II, scene iii

When I first started posting on Bungie.net, I intentionally rustled a lot of jimmies in the Halo 3 and Optimatch forums. A couple of years later, I became more chill and made quite a few friends due to my lackadaisical attitude toward everything. A couple of years after that (ie, present day), I'm as cynical and judgmental as they come, but since I refuse to give my attention to those of lesser intelligence or relevance, I usually end up ignoring the users and keeping my judgments to myself.

I've been too busy with #dragons to pay any heed to the peasants on this forum, anyways.

[Edited on 09.06.2012 10:14 PM PDT]

  • 09.06.2012 10:12 PM PDT

Owning Noobs Since 05

"I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers."

Jim Harkins

Maybe I became more cynical towards bad threads, bad threads make me AAAaaangry!Raaawwrghhh! I think the darkness is intensifying this dislike. Repeat threads kind of bug me but not as much. The OP doesn't know any better.

As for coming back....I don't know why I do it. Things have been kind of stale lately. Sometimes coming here can be fun but the lack of good threads makes it hard to be fun. I lurk so much lately and I don't like that. It's been hard to find good threads.

[Edited on 09.06.2012 10:52 PM PDT]

  • 09.06.2012 10:16 PM PDT
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I am cynical about the media, politics, and the Flood. Everything else still interests me.

  • 09.06.2012 10:24 PM PDT

Posted by: Great_Pretender
Case and point: don't worry about it. Girls start getting boobies pretty soon, and then you'll have plenty of other things to think about. Being an Inheritor is not a life goal.
-TGP-

I hate this thread, not enough complaining and dragons.

  • 09.06.2012 10:26 PM PDT
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Posted by: DEATHPIMP72
Anyone but Foman. He smells like cheese.

The dragons meme is stupid beyond belief, and so is this whole community. Please tell me how to make it all go away.

Now, I will, out of nowhere, throw out names of mediocre ex-members who no longer post here, pretending that they were amazing community members and worthwhile posters, in an attempt to elevate myself above newer community members who have no idea who those people are.

Oh well, anyway, if twitch were here he would -blam!- on all of you people.

  • 09.06.2012 10:32 PM PDT

GOAT

Well, cheers to Bungie when they finally unveil the darkness that is Destiny.

Hopefully we'll have some light in here again, some fresh air and maybe even some chairs.

  • 09.06.2012 10:32 PM PDT
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R.I.P. DeathPimp. Never Ending Respect.

"Posted by: Kickimanjaro
I'm trying to become an '04, but it's not working too well."

Seriously, you guys need to get on FoMans level. I can't believe how pathetic this is, a burnt out Moderator being more funny than Mythic Members?

Someone gag me.

  • 09.06.2012 10:47 PM PDT
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It's basic science and evolution man.

  • 09.06.2012 10:48 PM PDT
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"It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me."

With age comes wisdom, and you learn to ignore certain things (like whatever Foman says).

  • 09.06.2012 10:59 PM PDT

This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends;
Not with a bang but a whimper.

Posted by: x Foman123 x
The dragons meme is stupid beyond belief, and so is this whole community. Please tell me how to make it all go away.
I think I am going to listen to Duardo on this one.

  • 09.06.2012 11:08 PM PDT
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R.I.P. DeathPimp. Never Ending Respect.

"Posted by: Kickimanjaro
I'm trying to become an '04, but it's not working too well."


Posted by: Duardo
With age comes wisdom, and you learn to ignore certain things (like whatever Foman says).
There are more replies than poll votes.

I'm quitting bnet

  • 09.06.2012 11:10 PM PDT

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I refuse to vote because I disagree but I refuse to tell you to shut up dmg. While I may disagree with what you say Ill defend to the death youe right to say it. Unless you live in China..in which case you're out of luck.

  • 09.06.2012 11:30 PM PDT

Posted by: Great_Pretender
Case and point: don't worry about it. Girls start getting boobies pretty soon, and then you'll have plenty of other things to think about. Being an Inheritor is not a life goal.
-TGP-

Posted by: x Foman123 x
Now, I will, out of nowhere, throw out names of mediocre ex-members who no longer post here, pretending that they were amazing community members and worthwhile posters, in an attempt to elevate myself above newer community members who have no idea who those people are.

Oh well, anyway, if twitch were here he would -blam!- on all of you people.
I'm going to make up a username and pretend you've just never heard of them.

Sluicegate could take twitch any day.

  • 09.06.2012 11:33 PM PDT
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Twitter.
WyIdfyre: 'lol, who the hell would even wear those?'
AuSam: 'lol, who the hell would even have sex with dogs?'

-K-

Being cynical isn't so much a hatred of all things, at least, in my head it's always been more of a pessimistic view of the actions of others, and their motivations, not intending to cause angst or harm, just a more negatively realistic viewpoint.
I'm only really like that towards the community, because in my head, that's where it actually applies.

  • 09.06.2012 11:38 PM PDT
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I've matured substantially over my 2010-self.

Guess that's the only change of attitude I have here.

  • 09.06.2012 11:44 PM PDT

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Bungie can only disappoint so many time before we get sad.

  • 09.06.2012 11:49 PM PDT

Posted by: Kurosaki_Kun

I know, right?
Jay acts like she's better than everyone else simply because she's a chick.
I hope she chokes to death.

I think my attitude to internet communities in general has changed since I started going online regularly (about age 12-13). I've become more cynical in some ways, but more open-minded and relaxed in others.

  • 09.07.2012 12:09 AM PDT