🚀 go-pugleaf

"CoinSpin" <coin^spam^sp...@hotmail.com> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

>
>"Zaghadka" <zagh...@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
>news:6sakv2l0jevgq5mhqo06qrgnktemad71pk@4ax.com...
>| On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:55:36 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg, CoinSpin
>| wrote:
>|
>| >
>| >"Quaestor" <no-spam@my.place> wrote in message
>| >news:12vj8hhl91nkca9@news.supernews.com...
>| >| zircher wrote:
>| >|
>| >| >pc games wrote:
>| >| >
>| >| >
>| >| >>Developers are even considering abandoning the PC cause of PIRACY!
>| >| >>Unbelievable... PIRACY makes developers abandon the PC!
>| >| >>Aren't you ashamed of being a PC Gamer?
>| >| >>This is truly humiliating! HUMILIATING!
>| >| >>
>| >| >>SAVE PC GAMES! FIGHT AGAINST PIRACY! and start right NOW!
>| >| >>
>| >| >>
>| >| >
>| >| >Ashamed?  Humiliation?  We're talking about games here.  Get a grip.
>| >| >
>| >| >
>| >|
>| >| Get a killfile.  This troll will never be anything but a loud and dirty
>| >| troll.
>| >|
>| >|
>| >
>| >The sad thing is...  I'm not sure he's really a troll...  More like a sad
>| >misguided inflexible moron with no common sense...  And waaaaay too much
>| >free time on his hands (judging by how many games he says he buys and 
>plays,
>| >and the mass amounts of postings he does on usenet).
>| >
>| >Maybe not a troll...  but trollish enough!
>| >
>| Yeah. I agree. The origins of the term "troll" are not in the Tolkien 
>sense,
>| but in the fishing sense, as in "trolling for newbies." You'd put out a 
>troll
>| specifically to see the reaction, to see how many replies you could troll 
>up,
>| and accomplished trolls are engaging in manipulation, not in being a
>| disagreeable monster.
>|
>| Example: When Ann Coulter called what's-his-name a "faggot," she was 
>trolling.
>|
>| Depends on your definition of troll, of course, but he doesn't meet the 
>Usenet
>| definition that I grew up with.
>|
>
>Yep...  I was using troll in the Usenet sense...  The guy is misguided 
>enough to think that he's going to change the world through his inflexible 
>one-sided ranting in newsgroups...  I sometimes picture him just sitting and 
>staring at the computer screen reading responses to his posts and trying to 
>understand why the rest of the world just doesn't get it...

That's not a troll though, a troll is posting just to get responses and
flood that group with crap.   See all those silly "rpgs are the tool of
Satan" type posts that appear once and a while.

>Would that make him an accidental troll?  Or maybe just an oblivious one...

Makes him/her/it a kook not a troll.
Marching to the beat of a different drummer and totally oblivious that
there other drummers exist.

Xocyll
-- 
I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of
a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably,
Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So
FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr