People's extreme love and passion towards characters

There needs to be some Internet regulation of some sort, over who has the mental aptitude to engage in conversations and what not. Sounds extremely totalitarian but screw it. A person with a mental disorder wouldn't be allowed to say the shit this Idiot said in public, what gives him the right to say it behind a monitor?
 
This is why I stay away from Twitter. It's crap like this that makes me embarrassed to be a fan of MK.

Same here.

But that is no fan. I don't care how in love with the series you are, you don't start making verbal threats, serious or not, towards the developers. You don't make threats to anyone period.
 
I'll repost this in here, because relevance:

I feel like you guys brush a whole group of people with the same comb... or however that saying goes.

Just because you are a fan of a character, and even if that character is Reiko, does not mean they're ALL like that one guy! That one guy was WAAAAY over the line, but putting everyone in the same box as him just makes you appear ignorant.
 
I haven't seen one person saying all Reiko fans are deranged as that particular person. They've all just been saying how disappointed one guy can make another feel so crappy that they have to leave because of them.
 
He's right, though, in a general sense. People who get fixated on particular characters do tend to get bent out of shape when it comes to advocating them -- but obviously not often to this extent.

Bottom line, even if you don't go as far as the idiot who caused Himmerick to deactivate his account, if you love a character that much, just take a step back, breathe and reevaluate your priorities in life.

That's basically what it comes down to.
 
I get what you guys are saying. Overzealous passion can turn people into psychos. Just know that you shouldn't put every passionate fan into the same box.
 
I get what you guys are saying. Overzealous passion can turn people into psychos. Just know that you shouldn't put every passionate fan into the same box.

We're not, and I might have generalized that by saying the never change line.

But think of it this way, there is a bigger picture. If you were a Studio, and you have people hounding you over their favourite characters every minute of every hour, to the point where all it takes is one idiot to step over the line and screw it over for everyone else, the blame will fall on the overly passionate character lovers.

I'm willing to bet that if Shaun or Ed or anyone else didn't receive even half the the begging and advocation on their Twitter accounts, they'd brush the random threat off. If I were a designer, I would be annoyed as shit and look for any excuse to rightfully get out of that mess.
 
Bottom line, even if you don't go as far as the idiot who caused Himmerick to deactivate his account, if you love a character that much, just take a step back, breathe and reevaluate your priorities in life.

That's basically what it comes down to.


I am not sticking up for the idiot that posted that ignorant bull, I repeat, I do not support ignorance. That being said, Himmerick is not the first nor will he be the last person to be bullied on the net. You have to develope thick skin to deal with the public, especially an anonyomous one at that. That person should be banned and Himmerick should have continued his, high profile people deal with this sh!t all the time and lose no sleep over it. Some people just can't handle situations like these and it's sad that an ant made a giant concede.
 
I am not sticking up for the idiot that posted that ignorant bull, I repeat, I do not support ignorance. That being said, Himmerick is not the first nor will he be the last person to be bullied on the net. You have to develope thick skin to deal with the public, especially an anonyomous one at that. That person should be banned and Himmerick should have continued his, high profile people deal with this sh!t all the time and lose no sleep over it. Some people just can't handle situations like these and it's sad that an ant made a giant concede.
Read what I posted right before you. If I were a game developer, constantly being hounded by people, I'd look for a reasonable way to get off social media if the opportunity came along.

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I cried when Neflite died in Sailor Moon :(

People get attached to characters, I don't see why it's weird to anyone that people would get passionate....I was legit mad each time Raiden was left out and I am legit raging that Jade was killed off. That's just too many swear words to insert here.

No one likes to see bad things happen to their favorite characters.
 
That's just how some people are.

It's like reading comments on certain articles. Every now and then ABC7 posts an article about how some person killed another, and then fifty comments later you read the same exact thing: Gimme five minutes with this person and I'll do the same exact thing to them.

They think doing the same thing to that person is justifiable. I don't get it, and probably never will. But that's just how some people are, but it doesn't make them look better than the original. It just makes them look the same as that person. Nor is it an excuse to act low either.
If someone even tried to do that to me or my family, I'd make sure they never had the chance, because they'd be on their way to either the emergency room, jail, or the morgue. My property is armed for a VERY good reason, and it ain't to shoot Bambi and his mama. Where I live, we shoot trespassers first and ask questions later.

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Read what I posted right before you. If I were a game developer, constantly being hounded by people, I'd look for a reasonable way to get off social media if the opportunity came along.

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Uh Taj if you noticed that was my first post in the thread of the incident we're all are talking about. I quoted you in agreement to what you said, I was just adding what Himmerick could of done as well. So im not following what your last statement is getting at. I say again known(Hemmerick to Ed Boon for comparison) or unknown( me, Joe blow), it doesn't matter who you are or your status, you are going to run into dipsh!ts on the net. How you handle stress(threats) varies from person to person.
 
No one likes to see bad things happen to their favorite characters.

Well... Yes and no. I don't WANT to see bad things happen to my favs. But when they do... it feels great. lol It usually gets a wicked emotional response out of you. And I'd rather feel something over nothing. *shrug* Most of my MK favorites tend to blend into the background. MK9 gave me my first minor melt down when Smoke had his neck snapped. And I loved it.

Idk. Maybe I'm sick in the head.
 
Uh Taj if you noticed that was my first post in the thread of the incident we're all are talking about. I quoted you in agreement to what you said, I was just adding what Himmerick could of done as well. So im not following what your last statement is getting at. I say again known(Hemmerick to Ed Boon for comparison) or unknown( me, Joe blow), it doesn't matter who you are or your status, you are going to run into dipsh!ts on the net. How you handle stress(threats) varies from person to person.
I understand. But I'm proposing a completely different scenario as well. Put yourself in the shoes of a "known" person such as Himmerick, who's out to appease fans by answering as many questions as he can about the game. However he also has to deal with countless people hacking at him begging for this and that. If I were him, I'd find any reasonable excuse that doesn't make me look bad to get out of all that. The threats against his family is the perfect excuse, he doesn't look bad by leaving, while at the same time the fan base is angry at the dude who caused him to leave. At the end of the day, he was doing us a favour by answering all our questions, one douche bag ruined it for all of us. He's in the position of power because he holds the answers to the questions we ask. Therefore, I don't blame him one bit for doing what he did, I would've done the same. The fact that someone would mention my family is just even more fuel to the fire.

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Well this is just great, considering he was the best source for MKX info.

Can y'all see why I made this thread now?

Ah then that would mean you have created a thread to talk about morons like this (saying that this kind of trash has a mental problem is an insult to people who actually have it), because in no way, this guy is passionate, excited, or he is even a fan. He is a simple minded scum. These kind of people are the dark side of MK fan base.
Hell, they are the dark side of pretty much every other fan base. Like football for example. We get riots, fighting and hell sometimes people even die, because of that. People like that are not fans. They are the scum of the earth.
Don't you even dare for one second, put them together with people who truly are passionate about their favorite characters, games or whatever subject it is. There is a difference between a guy who destroys/makes threats like that and a person who creates/supports his favorite subject in any way he can(no matter the form).

I can understand lover_of_tacos decision to quit Twitter. Even if it is just personal attacks, they sometimes get annoying, but then it touches someone other than you... it goes over the limit. Even so they are still pretty much empty. Like for example:

I myself never had twitter attacks like that (cause I am pretty much just some guy from somewhere), but had tons of emails while doing art requests. Got called enemy of women, gay, zoophile, necrophile and got some brutal death threats or requests for me to kill myself by hanging or jumping in front of truck (reason being, that I usually depict females differently in my works). But there was one guy who got "offended" it seems...? that I refused to take his art request which had pornography/erotic elements. So he found my facebook. Found my sister's and mother's facebook pages and started sending me pictures of them (taken from facebook) that he will find them and rape them.
In 20 minutes found where he lives and sent him his address (no hacking required), disappeared immediately. Moral of the story is: guys who make threats like this, are usually some lonely retards who need to "boost" their self esteem". They only have power behind their monitors. Expose them and they sh%t bricks.

Guys like these a cancer/parasites and they do not deserve to be put together in group with people who actually spend time/effort for their passion instead of making empty f%cking threats just to make themselves look cool... I guess???

If someone even tried to do that to me or my family, I'd make sure they never had the chance, because they'd be on their way to either the emergency room, jail, or the morgue. My property is armed for a VERY good reason, and it ain't to shoot Bambi and his mama. Where I live, we shoot trespassers first and ask questions later.

Could you tell me at least the region where you live, so I would avoid accidentally bending a freaking grass leaf in your yard, which would trigger, in you opening fire upon me?

I'd like to know when people became so selfish lately. I don't recall them being this horrible a few years ago. What changed?

[MENTION=16500]Kitty_55[/MENTION] Few years ago there was the same amount of idiots. They just didn't have so many options to voice their "wisdom".
 
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If someone even tried to do that to me or my family, I'd make sure they never had the chance, because they'd be on their way to either the emergency room, jail, or the morgue. My property is armed for a VERY good reason, and it ain't to shoot Bambi and his mama. Where I live, we shoot trespassers first and ask questions later.

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Just out of curiosity, do you support open carrying?
 
Well... Yes and no. I don't WANT to see bad things happen to my favs. But when they do... it feels great. lol It usually gets a wicked emotional response out of you. And I'd rather feel something over nothing. *shrug* Most of my MK favorites tend to blend into the background. MK9 gave me my first minor melt down when Smoke had his neck snapped. And I loved it.

Idk. Maybe I'm sick in the head.

hahaha, I know what you mean. I can agree with that, and probably should have thought about better wording. I was thinking more along the lines of death. If Raiden got tortured and shit, well, I'd be mad, but, would prefer that over him dying.
 
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