I See Dead People Or Jerks… You Decide

I was watching some videos on YouTube—yes I was bored.

In particular I was watching the cut scenes/story board/cinematic scenes/whatever you choose to call them from the game God of War.  I know, I know… But I’ve always loved video games—it’s made my generation.

I actually played Super Mario Brothers in the arcade and thought it was the ultimate.  I also remember playing dragon’s lair.  I was very young for the latter and still quite young for the former.  It’s what we did.  Moving on…

So anyway, I was watching the cinema scenes that tell the story about Kratos and how he became blah blah blah.  It was from the first game.  Very cool graphics and storyline; albeit, a bit rough and bloody.  But hey, we’re violent meatheads dating back all the way to whenever the hell; so there ya go.

I abhor actual violence but dig violent cartoons.  The American male and the dichotomy of man at its very best baby!
Lo’ and behold, I see (in the suggested/related videos to the side of the screen) a trailer for “god of war 3”.  I think, “hey cool” and go to check it out.  (Incidentally, I do not own a ps2 so I’ve never played god of war—to date—so forgive me for being way behind the times.  I am fascinated by the game because I dig video games and I was reading Greek mythology at age 9—so the game fills two nostalgic needs).
Turns out, it’s this actually endearing little “video” of a skinny little kid dressed up like the character Kratos—picture war paint from head to toe and two vicious looking swords chained to his arms.  The kid had to be no more than 10 or eleven, maybe younger.  I did the exact same thing when I was kid.  I dressed up like a ninja, knight, barbarian, rock star, you name it.  It’s simply what kids do.  It’s funny because they have all this “classical thunder” type music… you know, orchestral ‘war’ music—really loud and marching of the army type stuff.  It’s all still photos of him brandishing his “weapons” and giving war cries and generally looking as tough as any spindly little 10 year could look.  I laughed out loud, genuinely.

I scrolled down to look at the comments and my laughter stopped short… I mean, I literally almost bit my tongue and shouted “WHAT THE F*CK??!!!”

There were lovely comments such as:  “FAG!”  ‘YOU’RE SUCH A LITTLE FAG’ ‘THANKS FOR WASTING TWO MINUTES OF MY LIFE’  ‘GET A LIFE YOU LITTLE BASTARD’  ‘OMG YOU’RE SO GAY’ ’WHY DON’T YOU F*CKING DIE!!!’  ‘KILL YOURSELF FAG!’

And so on and so forth.  I mean, NOT F*CKING ONE nice comment or a laugh or whatever.

They absolutely demolished the poor little dude.  Come on now, people?  What the hell are they thinking?  What a low-life thing to do!

That poor little kid got his ass handed to him by a bunch of chumps with nothing better to do than to lambast a child.  Granted, it was PROBABLY kids not much older or the same age.  But that doesn’t make it right… you dig me?
It just goes along with what I’ve been noticing on the internet.  I guess they’re doing/did sociological studies on this phenomenon.  The internet making people assholes, I mean.  They say it’s the anonymity of it all.  Well SCREW THAT.

Dig this people… Just because they can’t beat your ass doesn’t mean it’s open season to be a freaking scumbag.  Am I wrong?

I mean, I got my ass handed to me all my young life by mean kids and I was verbally mean myself a time or two—though I was usually the minority for whatever reason and rarely had many friends let alone people to pick on.

I was the PICKEE not the PICKER or however the hell it should be said.  Kids are frigging mean.

Somehow, I can’t see it only being kids.  I have a hard time seeing a fifty year old doing it—but I can definitely envision some loser, college age bastard or loser high school bastard giving the kid a hard time.  It’s just so easy to envision some douchebag internet lowlife trolling this kid because he DARED to have a video game hero.

Doesn’t matter who did it; the point is that it was done.  It’s weak.  It’s lame and I could not help myself from commenting.  Normally, I never do.  I sigh or gripe and move on.  This time, I told the scumbags they were scumbags and told the kid that imagination is a virtue.

I know I know… turn the other cheek and all that.  But it wasn’t ME who was getting beat upon.  I just couldn’t let the kid have no one say anything nice to him.  That’s how dead people live.  That’s how dreamers die.  I can’t see that happen.  If it wasn’t for dreamers and skinny little kids pretending to be astronauts…. Well, where the hell would we be?
And a side note… If you’re male and you begin your sentences online or otherwise with “OMG” or ‘oh my god’…. Dude… come on.  That’s about as lame as “you go girl”.  That’s cutesy talk.  Only works for females–or effeminate men.  If you’re going to be a “badass” and attack people or try to get people to do/say/believe something you want—trying having a tad more huevos than “OMG”.
As my bro Kelt says, “wow, dude…. Just wow”

EDIT:  I wrote this quite a few years ago and decided to upload it regardless of being long since forgotten… I apologize for not having the ACTUAL video of this little dude emulating a hero.  The fact remains… People are assholes online.  No news there; but damn people… Let kids enjoy being kids.  If you flame a kid online for being a kid, you’re a lowlife.  Hugs and kisses, love yer ole buddy jas.