Dude this awesome you should get a blog or write a book!

Terrific post as always, good sir!

The arrogance and idiocy that forums and comment posts are riddled with is gradually deteriorating any interest in seeing what the civilian internet user has to say about anything. Video games in particular are the main topic where the anonymous douche reigns supreme. In just about any video game forum these days you are sure to find arguments consisting of personal preference being stated as fact and lush bombardments of irrelevant and non-helpful insults.

Take for instance the age old argument of what the best FPS (First person Shooter) is out there. I'm certain you have seen either proclamations or childishly executed debates upon this idea. A Halo fan boy gets on a Gears of War video or forum and posts that Halo ousts it completely and Gears of War is either gay, retarded, stupid, a waste of time, or whatever other choice or word or phrase this person may have out of their generally limited vocabulary. The same can be applied to the opposite or varying titles.

Their arguments tend to consist of vulgar comments toward the person, INAPPROPRIATE USE OF CAPS LOCK, and ill used technical terminology. Nine times out of ten, their arguments do not even help the actual topic of conversation and greatly divert from them.

Man, even in forums where the topic may be social, political, financial, geographical or whatever other word ending in al lol You are guaranteed to find the Internet Douche. Someone will come on and make some thick-headed remark usually with knowledge they acquired from the oh so reputable source of Wikipedia.

Never does my amusement end in seeing the Wikipedia buff claim being well educated by spewing their knowledge learned from a resource that has less credibility than its spoof counterpart Uncyclopedia.

I will shamefully admit right now that I have used Wikipedia to reference material in a term paper or three (write it off as coming from somewhere else of course) But this is far from a credible source of information. The content can be written and edited from anyone anywhere. That instantly terminates any form of credibility that the website has as a source of information. There have certainly been instances where the information is accurate but it generally tends to be on entertainment related content. The areas of history or politics tends to be a tad off in many cases with either statistical data or details of an event.

Getting back to the subject at hand of the anonymous douche. I believe that this is something that will never cease to be. Ignorance is something we as humans will continue to have amongst our diverse population in the planet. There simply is no getting around it other than merely trying to avoid it for I myself have no power to extinguish it, not very many of us do.

But consider this: the douche bag will mercilessly insult and denounce things it dislikes without good reasoning, evidence, or justification for their own statements. They talk so big in their attempts to degrade things or people, but what makes them so special? What have they accomplished that puts them in the position of talking down to everyone?

I have my own opinions of different things in the world but I don't consider it to outweigh the ideas of anyone else. If I prefer one piece of media over another I will not make an attempt to prove that what I enjoy is better than what you enjoy and you are a complete fool for liking what you're into. Doing so is simply egotistical. And that is what I feel the anonymous douche bag is, an egotistical person fueled merely by the anonymity of the internet, the fact that people egg them on by trying to contradict them and that anyone even pays any attention to them.

It's kind of sad really. I usually feel pretty sorry for the anonymous douche. These are people who are seeking attention and find joy in insulting people, acting big by hiding behind their monitors as they lash at you with vulgarity. But physically encounter these people to find the true face of cowardice.

It's so unfortunate. A person like that usually doesn't make it very far in life. But on the brighter side of things, at least a person aspiring to make something out of themselves doesn't have very much competition, most of those people that could have been competitors for a job are too busy being trolls on the internet! haha