Are you afraid of the site which launched such gems as the “lolcatz” and the immortal “Oh really? owl”? [:D] I bet Mike Judge paid a visit while working on Idiocracy.
But I bet the biggest appeal is the fact that there’s a boatlod of porn in it, the weirdest and most sickening the better… [^o)]
They stand for spam, doom, and rhetoric destruction of the human spirit. Seriously don’t draw attention 2 4-chan. It’s an evil place filled with darkness and fear. Just let it be, because if even one of them finds this forum the lot of them will flies to attack us (It’s seriously happened before) they’ll all come like a swarm of wasps… it could be the end of mises.org as we know it (dramatc music plays, camera zooms in on my face)
Bring it on, I would love to tweak some socialist noses.
There is method to 4chan’s absurdist-nihilistic madness (a mere attempt at what they stand for, but assuming that they stand anything mis-understands their emergent organizing & behavior).
They are the ones keeping the original spirit of the internet alive (however absurd this may seem) while the rest of the late-adopters, young tweenagers & their clueless parents, nanny statists & moral outragers pollute the internet with the same kind of bullsh*t people eventually get sick of offline.
How DOESN’T Democratic Socialism lead to the highest standard of living ever enjoyed? I assume he’s talking about how people in poverty were imprisoned.
How doesn’t capitalism lead to the highest living standard ever enjoyed?
How doesn’t fascism lead to the highest living standard ever enjoyed?
How doesn’t communism lead to the highest living standard, ok I can’t make the case for that one…
Post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy. Memorise its name.
Uhm.. pissing off the biggest forum on the internetz might not be such a good idea.
Err.. you MIGHT want to check the date of the last post in threads you are commenting in, bro. This thread has been dead for 6 months.
You young people with your Rock and Roll and fancy new words! I had literally no idea what “lulz” was until I came across this topic, so I typed it into an Internet dictionary and came up with this:
Lulz is the one good reason to do anything, from trolling to rape. After every action taken, you must make the epilogic dubious disclaimer: “I did it for the lulz”.
Which pretty much sums it all.
Seriously years a go a friend talked to me about 4chan and I asked what was so special about it: “Lots, and I really mean LOTS of anime porn”. That says it all.
If you’re talking about Urban Dictionary, then discard that definition. It contains too much unmoderated garbage (because the moderators/editors seemingly can’t keep up with the influx of shit) to be taken seriously.
The definition you’re quoting is a very good example of what I’m talking about. It only explains the usage of the word as it was or is common on 4chan, without even mentioning what’s most important to the outsider: that lulz is a misspelling of lol.
I just typed “lulz definition” into Google and read the first entry, which happens to come from Urban Dictionary. [:D]
Quod erat demonstrandum.
I’m not even saying that everything on Urban Dictionary is bad, just that the moderation is absolutely inadequate, unlike Wikipedia. Accordingly, I consider it borderline useless at best, and outright counterproductive at worst, for use as a dictionary.
Using Urban Dictionary as a source on anything but obscure fictional sexual practices bored people think up and slang terms used by metropolitan university-age Americans is like using the Jerry Springer Show as a sociological survey of the American public. I cannot believe I am voluntarily entering this sequence of letters into this site’s word processing software, but Encyclopaedia Dramatica is, from what I hear, a far better source on troll culture.
I couldn’t have said it that well myself, even though you’re essentially echoing my sentiment.
Well, to be fair, I have the advantage of being a native English speaker. Then again, you have the advantage of an awesome avatar, whereas my representatve of choice wouldn’t look out of place in Superdickery’s Propaganda Extravaganza section.
Also, is it me, or does “lulz” sound like how a very drunk or highly-vibrating man would say LOL? I cannot seem to pronounce it without inclining towards salivation. Which seems oddly appropriate, consider it’s primary users.
I see nothing wrong with your avatar per se, but it seems to imply that you’re a fan of a certain mediocre (painfully so, bearing in mind its potential) game called Spore. It is a Spore creature, isn’t it?
Funny you should mention that: while I am with you 100% on Spore’s mediocrity, I tended to use it more as a platform for non-computer savvy people like me to create interesting looking beings. The Chinese-Lizardman just stood out in my mind.
There are some games that you can spend hours in setting up and roleplaying configurations. Tropico is an example of this that has good gameplay, Spore is a massive dissapointment that nevertheless packs a great deal of customiziability.