Sure there is. Some people just want to get a reaction, check out the glurge page on snopes. What do you think the motive was for writing this little gem?
The most extreme example I’ve personally come across of this was another member of a forum I used to frequent who pretended they were dying from cancer. This culminated in his “sister” posting details of a funeral using his account. The deception was only discovered when a couple other forum members tried to attend it.
I don’t think so, no. Someone old enough to fight in WW2 would be too old to be drafted for Vietnam.
“I read about Albert Einstein’s death in 1955. Vietnam started around the same time… And so did my marriage.”
And Alka Seltzer, we had a similar case to that on this board, too, except the “daughter” created an account a few months before his “death”. And while he was “alive”, he related a lot of personal stories that later turned out to be plagiarized.
I vote fake. Almost solely from the reference to Sega. It seems forced and I don’t believe an 80+ year old guy is going to pull Sega in a story written in 2011. In a life that long Sega would have been a blip on the screen. They were only really relevant for a few years and he would have been in his 50s.
It’s sad when human behaviour becomes almost statistical. Interact with enough people, and you are almost guaranteed to meet your quota of crazy.
Well, first impressions can count for a lot, if that is where his gaming history began. And as Sage Rat says, not everyone upgrades regularly. I knew people who were still playing with these consoles into the late 90s.
My instincts tell me it’s false, but I don’t kid myself I can know for sure. Often these things start with a grain of truth and are embellished.
I don’t really follow these rage comics but I kind of agree with you. Even if it’s fake, it’s still an interesting reed. Why couldn’t rage comics evolve into something bigger?
They’ve already (d)evolved in to a generic template for conveying every human emotion possible. The “standard” rage comics (4 panels, hand-drawn, ending in a rage face) have migrated to /r/classicrage.
I’m not sure that’s true Ferret Herder. On the 6th row, left side, he just says “my dad was a World War vet”. I took that to mean WWI, not WWII. He mentioned that he (the writer) participated in D-Day and his old WWII buddies helped to get him a job.
Interesting, and I wonder if that is a point in favor of its authenticity - if people who are old enough to remember when there was only one World War might still refer to “my dad was a World War vet” out of old habit, whereas most people make a distinction between WWI and WWII.
Who could convincingly do this as an 86 year old? It would be like a poor actor with little education writing the most fantastic stories concerning all walks of life (even nobility!) with language that is the source of study for hundreds of years later.
