Don't you people have anything better to do?
by Jon Allen

Originally Posted: 8 April 2000

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I would have liked to have had my first editorial submitted to the DBZ online community to be something a little bit more…"professional", but as of late, it seems that it's all been said. From dubbies defending the efforts of FUNimation to others with superiority complexes lashing out against other's sites simply to undermine them and downplay their popularity (*COUGH*Brian*COUGH*Real*HAACK!*).

There isn't much that hasn't been said on all the editorial sections of DBZ websites. Regardless, one thing has been troubling me for a while now, for reasons beyond me, and since I'm in somewhat of a foul mood in the first place after watching my brother's fat dubbie friend pretend he's a legitimate Otaku, I thought I'd bang one out. One word, or rather, a compound of two words. Spiritworld. Is anyone else even remotely as sick as I am of this channel for people who have nothing better to do but waste their time on an irc based day care for the mindless masses of rejects who seem to only be able of kicking, banning, and throwing childish insults at each other? Honestly, it puzzles me to no end. There seems to be approximately 5 catagories of people in this chat. 1: Webmasters looking for feedback on recent site accomplishments (this makes up roughly 11%). 2: Wannabe webmasters plugging a site with a title along the line's of "MaJiN-SSJ45_PiCColO's UlTIMate DrAgunBol Z Page" (15% at best). 3: Someone new to anime that has no real clue what they're doing, yet isn't causing any real harm, and is promptly killed from the server (7%, depending on what time Toonami is on in their time zone). 4: An intelligent chatter looking to converse with a few friends and perhaps get the general opinion of a certain currant topic (3% on a good day). That would bring us to the remainder of the percentage (or on a more average day about 98% of the chatters) 5: A bunch of outrageously annoying pathetic group of so called fans that are so insecure about their own fandom, that they proceed to label anyone and everyone who doesn't plug themselves into the chat for hours on end a "newbie". Let me get one thing straight right here and now. I hate the word newbie. Why? Because once upon a time it was just an innocent phrase used to describe someone who was still getting used to using the Internet. However, more often than not, this phrase is used simply to try and demean anyone who isn't spending 24-7 in a compelling-thought-starved chatroom. It's almost as if the person using the term is so pathetically inept in all facets of life, that they must continually label people as one simply to say that they've achieved at least something more than another person, that being that they spend more time on the computer. Wow. You're cool buddy. I bet you have all the friends in the world in real life. The rest of the chat rooms on animenet aren't all too much better, except for the fact that most people are idle in them so you don't have to groan at their disastrous attempts at saying something funny. Oh, but god forbid you make a comment that a statement someone made in spiritworld is incorrect or less than flawless! Why, that's grounds for an immediate kick/ban, the irc addict's salvation from anyone with a difference of opinion. Honestly, there have been times when I'd drop by to talk with a friend of mine, tried joining in a conversation, and with one innocent statement simply agreeing with a person, was banned simply because one user would want to show off his "ops", the irc addict's holy grail. Wow, what a meaningful 30 seconds I had just spent chatting. I won't lie and say that I never used to chat there, as in my "less enlightened" days of Internet use I'd be somewhat of an ass and have been klined frequently. But the fact is, I was someone new to the whole experience, and these "almighty" spiritworlders will go right ahead and brag about how many years they've been going there, with the same double standards of being asses themselves. Basically, if you're not in a "clique of stupidity", you're screwed from the get go. What grand representatives of Dragonball and anime fans in general, ne? As for the other more prominent chat server and channel, fanfic, it's a whole different ball game. No one over there really chats, and they admit that. It's basically for people with high speed or cable modems that are idle and transfer files. They don't put on some farce of trying to be a good chatroom, and they don't all act like stuck up elite class chatters (although some of these might have more reason too, yet they still don't). Why do you think that you won't find intelligent people like VegettoEX, Meri from the Temple Of Trunks (who hates SW about as much as me), Greg Werner (ditto) or anyone else in Spiritworld? I rest my case. If someone like "Mastah" Taurus (Mastah/master, inside joke J) does, he rarely says much in that quagmire of depravity and is pretty much in for the same reasons as me. Well, I realize this has turned out a bit longer than I had expected, and most of the Spiritworld users got tired of trying to read the big words and went back to their kick/ban wars, so I won't get into the other couple hundred or so reasons it pisses me off. Like how it's run (Hi Padget), or how you'd think some people's professions were to be total ass holes, acting like polar opposites of their otherwise squeaky clean image (Wuddup Mr. E). Anyways, thanks for reading, and please, if anyone out there wants to defend their precious little chat against me, you're hatemail is only going to prove my point (Mainly that you all need to go outside more), so at least try to form a halfway intelligent thought. Even though half of you are rejects from a "mailbag" section. Later.

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