Before this topic I didn’t know who PSXer was. I still don’t, but now I want to go read a PSXer topic.
i don’t know why but i picture him as randy quaid’s character from independence day. he’s the village idiot type that everyone laughs at, but when the giant spaceships come he’ll be the one to save the world.
Velociraptors, maybe. At least he’ll have the jeep.
Yeah, that stuck out in my mind as an especially creepy thing to ask, too.
We never get follow-up from him, so you have to wonder why he’s posting at all.
In this day and age, is it really possible for a person to exist who actually possess the characteristics by which he portrays himself on this board?
Let’s leave aside the semantics of trollhood and just try to answer this question.
I no longer consider him a troll. I don’t think he’s always telling the truth. And I think he posts a lot of stuff just to get laughs. But I don’t think he ever intends to piss people off. Even with my crappy temper I can’t get mad at him. That’s saying something.
He reminds me of the “troll” socks on the Giraffe Board, really. And, yes, as I’ve said before, he’d be the type of guy I would hang out with in college. The guy cracks me up.
That is brilliant. I have now located a description of my male students.
**PSXer ** is pretty annoying, but I just skip over his posts. If he’s a troll, he’s a low-level one.
I don’t pay attention to PSXer anymore, but he did sometimes give me the feeling he was trying to get other Dopers to post stories that made them sound like losers so he could laugh at them.
I can’t bring myself to look through his threads to find the one I’m specifically thinking of, but it was some tale of woe about his love life. While a lot of the responses were from people who thought he was full of it, quite a few Dopers responded offering sympathy and talking about their own lack of romantic success. I realize these people were freely choosing to post about their personal lives on the Internet, but it seemed really creepy to me to think that PSXer was having fun getting other people to describe their romantic failures.
OK, this line wins the thread.
I don’t really consider him a troll, but rather as a facet of adolescent America. Low self esteem, nerdy, and attempting to find himself in the sea of possibilities that is early adulthood. He likely has positive qualities, but he chooses not to focus on them, preferring to wrestle with his own perceived inadequacies.
Give him a break.
PSXer’s Apology
ok well sometimes I troll, sometimes I am sincere. I admit, some of my topics are not serious. Some I just flat out stole from other places. I never actually took popcorn out of the garbage to get free refills; it was just commnetary on the high price of popcorn that got out of hand. The weed smoker topic and the emotional boyfriend topic were just made up. The Jurassic Park jeep was just a random idea I had that I never intended to actually buy it, but I am such a big fan of Jurassic Park fan that I had to mention it.
I have admitted this before, and a mod warned me about it and sent me a stern PM, and since that point I have been trying my hardest to be sincere and not to troll. At least, not making up completely false topics. All my topics now are true, even if I sometimes will exaggerate to make a point, but I think it’s obvious when that happens.
My topic about learning Japanese: I do have an interest in learning foreign languages. Japanese was just a random thought that occurred to me, and I realized later that I didn’t really have that much interest in it. I have studied foreign languages before, and I have some idea of how hard it is to learn one. I was just throwing out ideas.
Maybe you say I should think out my ideas more before I make a topic, but I just like to make a topic to discuss what I’m thinking. Is that wrong?
“My friend wants to know” is sometimes used as a joke, but sometimes it is just that I believe the topic title explains my question well enough and I don’t need to elaborate in the post. And now it has become my thing.
I like Robocop 1 much more than Robocop 2, but I don’t have either of them. I checked them out from the library recently.
two specific posts mentioned here: the Spanish language thing and the Nazi atrocities. yeah I see why they offend people, and I apologize and realize I was wrong to post them. More specifically with Nazis I wanted to read about medical experiments, maybe I should have been more clear. But I guess I do have a morbid curiosity about things. Maybe it is wrong, but that’s how I am. I just enjoy violence. Blame it on the violent videogames and movies.
My comments about Spanish were offensive, I see why. But truthfully, I just don’t have any academic interest in learning it. Maybe I should have expressed it in a more tactful manner.
Now I have been doing Latin and Greek for a few years, and German too. Next semester I’m going to continue with all these and start on Ancient Hebrew. I think it will be easier to learn an ancient language since you only have to learn it read it, not to speak it (as was my experience in Latin/Greek). As for modern languages, I want to focus on German, and I think it might be too much trouble learning to speak more than one language at a time.
The infamous super bowl party topic. I will explain this. My friend made a party event on facebook, and I was not invited. In my experience, however, you can’t invite everyone to something on facebook. In the past (with these same friends) it has been that if there is a public event, anyone is invited. I can’t explain the complex dynamics of the relationship with my friend, but I know that I am welcome at his house. And the rules of parties are different in college anyway. I did indeed go to the party (not empty-handed, for I brought pretzels), and had a good time with my friends. Nobody said anything about me being there (maybe they were just too polite to), and there were like 20-30 people there so 1 more person isn’t gonna matter. Maybe it was wrong for me to ago, but I am lonely and desperate for attention.
I am very lonely, and I spend a lot of time on the Internet. Posting on message boards, this one and others. On my other boards trolling and my sort of behavior is much more accepted, so I try hard to conform to the standards of this board, but sometimes I do something wrong. I crave attention and I need people to talk to. People talk to me here and post in my topics, so I continue to post here. Not that all of my topics here are attention-seekers. I am a big fan of movies, so I post a lot on cafe society. Maybe I am too obsessed with movies. I am the kind of guy who would rather watch the same few movies (examples": Jurassic Park, Back to the Future, Terminator 2) than watch a lot of new movies. Yes I like laserdiscs. I like watching old things, and it gives me something to have a conversation about. I am really shy at things in real life, and I can’t have conversations except topics I like and am confident about: examples movies, my major, laserdiscs, and a few things. I am bad at conversations. I feel very left out by my friends. I feel like all my friends are more important to me than I am to them. Sometimes it is my fault, that I don’t reach out to people. but I want people to make an effort to talk to me and want to incldue me with things. You maybe remember a topic about “my so called friends went to the movies without me”. I was very upset by that. I need acceptance and I want people to like me. That’s why I was so desperate to go to the super bowl party: because I am so lonely and I feel like I am always left out of things (and I like football).
This topic really hurts me, because I want people to like me, and now I see that some people are mad at me (although I know it is entirely my fault and I deserve it for how i have been acting). Sometimes I do the things I do because I think it’s funny. I guess I’m just an immature stupid kid but I’m only 21 and in college I’m still learning. It is nice to get some support from people in this topic who think I am funny. I think I am funny. When I hang out with my friends in real life, I tell jokes and they think I am funny. I like jokes because if people like it, it gives me an immediate positive response (if they laugh). However, I sometimes feel that I cannot do anything in conversations except tell jokes. I am very bad at serious conversations, and maybe that hinders me from forming the close friendships i want to have. I can’t talk about serious things with my friends. Even now posting it on the internet to strangers it is hard to.
I have no self-confidence and don’t like myself. I am too fat and I don’t like it, and I assume that everyone else immediately thinks less of me for it. I feel that I have no useful skills in life and that I am too lazy to succeed. People bag on me about majoring in Latin, and the reason I am tired as heck of it is because I know they are right. I know it is not the most useful skill, and I have no idea what I am going to do for a job after college. I have a lot of fear of the future, and it only makes things worse when I get asked for the 1000000th time “what are you gonna do with that degree?”
In my “How do I stop being lazy and procrastinating” I ask for advice but then don’t take it. I am too scared to change and try new things. I am too lazy to do things. But I didn’t not completely ignore everyone’s advice in that topic. I have indeed been to counseling since that topic and have gone a few times.
Yes I do like laserdiscs and old sega genesis games. I know it is odd in this day and age, but it least it gives me something to talk about.
ask me anything else
What is the meaning of life?
Have you considered making an ‘Ask PSXer’ thread?
Do you know what a woobie is? Because, I think you just became one.
I don’t know.
I have made some before.
I didn’t know what it is before, and after a quick google search I am still not quite sure. Is it good?
Kinda? The Woobie - TV Tropes
See now how can you guys stay mad at this kid? He fessed up to pooping on the rug and he looks very sorry.
Who’s a good boy? Yous a good boy! Yes yous is!
yeah but what do you want me to do? First people complain when I don’t explain myself and abandon topics, now I am mocked for explaining too much. Should I go back in time and not make those topics?
Personally, I was just teasing you, and I think the apology and clarification was a good thing. You must see how kinda woobie-ish your post was though, right? In any case, teasing and snarking are what Dopers do best, so don’t let it get ya down. Avoid the intentional mini-trolling and keep on being yourself.
You remind me a little of myself back in high school. I wouldn’t be surprised if this were true for alot of people here. More posters like you than not, as you’ve seen in this thread. So, buck up!
It’s ok dude, I think you’re ok. In fact, more people in this thread than you’re admitting to think you’re ok.
I didn’t mean to mock you, I actually really did mean “Look, you can’t stay mad at this guy, he’s all right.”
I do realize that it’s hard not to get riled up when you see your name in a Pit thread.
This too shall pass. Keep on keepin’ on.
PSXer is an ok dude. I mean, sure he has zany, stupid thoughts, but don’t we all have zany, stupid thoughts? He just needs to get out more, is all.
He seems to have acknowledged and reformed his tendency towards posting fiction, which I for one appreciate. PSXer I really don’t mind people posting random bullshit, but taking advantage of people’s earnest desire to help is assholish.
For the record I kind of miss VC03, and to tell you the truth, I have a soft spot in my heart for The Grapist.
Eh fights teh srs and doesn’t afraid of anything.