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Old Zem Level: 27 Posts: 95/260 EXP: 102369 For next: 13790 Since: 03-16-04 Since last post: 213 days Last activity: 203 days |
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| David Gonterman. Know who he is? If so, read on. If not, good for you (but if you're morbidly curious, check out an introduction, a good overview of the problem, and the rest in case you haven't had enough). I won't give you all the background. (See above for that.) But I wanted to give a second opinion. First of all, I disagree with pretty much everything "Davey-kins" has ever done. But I sympathize with him, as do the friendly folks running the shrine. Sure, I'll make fun of his every move given the opportunity. But where I differ is that I don't think I'm as far from Gonterman as I'd like to think, and I don't think most people are. Now, this is the controversial part. Sure, he puts himself in every one of his stories as the hero, and invariably has sex with a fawning woman (generally a robot or an animal, or both). Sure, he threatens people he doesn't like with "roboticization" or just puts them in a comic, kills them, and brags about winning the battle. Sure, he's drawn hundreds of comics with no tangible improvement in artistic ability (hell, I can draw better than he can). Sure, he demonstrates the worst varieties of racism and homophobia. But he was pretty much inevitable. Now seriously, think about it for a second. Are you really surprised Gonterman exists? Of course not. While he's an extreme example of them, he only demonstrates traits that can be found in the people you know and claim to love all over the internet. People make a big deal out of him, but all of the same can be seen on virtually any message board (this one included). The fact that all of it is combined into one person is an inevitable fluke with the population numbers we have going now. Really, the only things unusual about Gonterman are his proliferation and his persistence. Not long ago, I could easily have done the kinds of things Daveykins is infamous for. Of course, I don't share his prejudices, or his horrible writing style, or his spelling or grammar or terribly-drawn chicken-scratch artistic abilities. Also he's close to twice my age. Well, maybe I'm not that close to him. But all things considered, he's really not such a huge deviant. I guess what I'm trying to say is that while it's easy to poke fun at him- isn't there a little Davey-kins in all of us? God, what a horrible thought. I'm not an optimist anymore. (edited by ZEM on 04-09-04 04:31 AM) (edited by ZEM on 04-09-04 04:35 AM) (edited by ZEM on 04-10-04 05:32 AM) |
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Mel (USER WAS TOTALLY AWESOME FOR THIS POST) Level: 47  Posts: 142/991 EXP: 762490 For next: 3713 Since: 03-15-04 From: secure tripcodes are for jerks Since last post: 17 min. Last activity: 16 min. |
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Old Zem Level: 27 Posts: 97/260 EXP: 102369 For next: 13790 Since: 03-16-04 Since last post: 213 days Last activity: 203 days |
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| I bet finding an animated gif to give your one-word post some artificial meat is almost as much work as typing a response. Use text asshole. (edited by ZEM on 04-10-04 05:11 AM) (edited by ZEM on 04-10-04 05:12 AM) |
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