Another blog post wasted on a message board.

....I remember saying that it was gonna get ugly in this blog really soon. Well, if you just happened to chance upon this page, then yeah. I haven't touched the layout of it. Pretty ugly, yah?

I knew you'd agree.

Anyway, here's another potential blog post that I wasted on a message board. I have no idea what my problem is. I love to write, if only to get the thoughts out of my head. Why do I procrastinate on coming here to do it? Or, hell.. even my old myspace account. I've even been guilty of spamming my own facebook comments just to clear some space in my head.

What's bad (downright horrible) about it is that I know that those forms of written communication (facebook updates, message board posts) are made to be read in short little jots. People don't read them if they're too long. They scan them if they're over 3 sentences. Not everyone has this obsession with reading it all. I do it to the point that I call it digesting a post/book/whatever.

So why do I do it?

I guess I suffer the same problem that fictional villains do. It's the thing that makes them explain their "master plan" in full detail to the story's protagonist, even though said villain knows that the hero will use this information to ruin said plan, punch said villain repeatedly and kick him in the nuts.

I want to be understood. Even by people I may not know or particularly like.


Oh shit, I forgot to post the post!

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nah, don't feel bad about it. I really don't think the majority of people are stupid, though. It's like different levels to it.

I was having a conversation with a friend of mine a few days ago, we were talking about our shared habit of getting music/games/movies/whatever off the internet, deleting what sucks and going to buy what we like. (support quality, no matter the genre.)

We got into people who bootleg this type of stuff. I know I could make a killing doing it, but getting new releases sometimes up to 6 months before they come out seems so natural that I can't imagine someone paying for something I put no thought into. But it never fails, I have this cousin that'll come to family get togethers with his chest puffed out like "Look at this bootleg movie I got." Everyone's like "whoooaaaaa that just came out in the theaters LAST MONTH!" And they buy it, calling him some kinda genius.

I sit quietly and think "I saw that 3 months ago..." They think I'm jealous because I don't buy his stuff. With a little effort, that could be MY money. But it all seems so dumb... like buying bottled water.


On the other hand, take this forum. for every rehashed, chopped up and pasted together idea that comes through, you'll have 10 people (like me) that are new to it all and will say "holy shit this idea is revolutionary let me get started RIGHT NOW!!!" Then you'll have 20 people come in and go "LOL NOOBZ THIS IS TEH OLDZ!"

Does that make me dumb for not knowing something obvious? Or me smarter for knowing more than others? Nah, just different levels of knowledge.

I know I just wrote a lot of crap and decreased the chances of this being read (and wasted a good blog post). But I say all of that to say this:


For every obvious thing you feel you know, there are at least 20 people who don't. Find those people and either share your knowledge, or exploit them for their lack thereof.


Thanks, threadstarter, for this great idea. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go try to sell some flatscreen TVs.