The problem with the world..
…is that hardly anyone’s ever happy with what they’ve got. Everywhere you turn, internet or RL, people are complaining because reality doesn’t fulfil their expectations. Games are too hard, or too easy (often the same game), too much of a gankfest or boring, great story but shitty controls or graphics, etc etc. The political scene, well, we won’t even go there. Firefox has security holes (and improved market share), oh noes! *sigh* This expectation of perfection is so freakin absurd. Of course Firefox has security holes - it’s developed by a small team of human beings who aren’t perfect, and most users don’t pay a damn cent for it. Yet still people bitch and moan that their “perfect” Firefox has flaws. Guild Wars made getting some of the higher, more powerful skills difficult to get, and people bitch because they can’t play GodCharacter0351 out of the box. Boo freakin hoo.
Anyway, I’m just tired of reading complaints about everything under the sun everywhere I go. I could point to dozens of examples of why world peace will never come about. We, as a race, constantly shoot ourselves in the foot, bickering (rather heatedly, might I add) about the most pointless, trivial things, like who’s more important or who gets more hits or who killed more players or who’s a fanboi fanatic. It’s ridiculous. God is probably busting his ass in heaven, laughing at us all.
And yes, I am aware of the hypocrisy of complaining about all the complainers~ I’m as human as anyone else.
On a slightly different note, we have beautiful weather here today again, and I have nothing pressing to do this afternoon. Life is good.
Edit: and the hospital up the street had cookies right out of the oven. woot!
cruinh
May 11th, 2005
3 years, 6 months ago
Hehe I’ve actually been thinking about this and seeing examples of it all over lately… but I think I’ve been seeing it differently. There was even an issue of Sandman I read last night that talked about it, in a sense.
Except for, I think, the certain kind of person that just wants to live a simple life out on a farm somewhere in the midwest, most people are never really happy with what they have, no matter what they have. I actually think this can be a very good thing. To long for something more than you have, either in your possessions or yourself, gives a person something to work towards and a way of improving his/her life. It seems to me that a person that had everything they way they wanted it would be pretty miserable and not have anything to look forward too. But naturally there’s plenty of people that want things others want, or want things to be one way when someone else wants them another way… At that point, it starts to suck and I begin to agree with you.
short version of what I’m trying to say: On a personal level, the fact that no one’s ever happy with their lot can be a good thing. But in general, yeah it tends to suck.
Jazzkat
May 11th, 2005
3 years, 6 months ago
Wow, Cruinh…that was really insightful! I couldn’t have said it better
jena
May 11th, 2005
3 years, 6 months ago
*nod* I definitely agree with that.. without the drive for perfection, humanity as a whole would never have gotten as far as it has. I know that, rationally, but there’s a difference between a drive to excel or better something and flat-out complaining about everything. Constructive criticism is good; general negativity is bad. That’s really all I was trying to say, I think. I never really have a problem with people who actually talk about a problem, break it down into what they think is wrong and what they’d do about it. It’s the people (like myself, in this very post *sigh*) who just say “this sucks” that frustrate me.
It’s really the difference between saying “this is a great game, but these x points need work,” and saying “dude this game suxxorz cause they nerfed my class!” There are some very insightful people out there who do appreciate what they have and work to better the flaws, as they see them; they’re just vastly outnumbered by the pontificators and flamers who only want to whine.
Blah blah blah; I’m no better myself, I know.