CarcharOdin

Yeah, PC members are quick to defend others, even if they don't know them haha. It wasn't very clearly made that it was a joke, though I had it on the backburner in my mind. But your recent blog took some guts to post, and I respect you for that immensely. :)

MORTE!!!!!!!!!!!

He's my brother's favorite character in Planescape: Torment.

The "vigilante justice" stuff that's branded as "Anonymous" is from 2008ish. Before that, "anonymous" was a group only insofar as its "members" were unified by the fact that they were anonymous posters on 4chan. That was the only unifying feature of it. The idea of a "group" was mostly a running joke about some of the pretty twisted attitudes that people took when liberated from any sort of identity.

The reason anonymous was important, whether anyone even realized it, was that it was one of the first times when people were completely free to speak their mind on any significant scale. People were able to say anything they thought, no matter how awful or out there it might be or what other people might think. The only repercussions were the responses of others; what you said would be scrutinized, and if it didn't make sense, someone would eventually say so. This is probably more important than anyone could ever realize, and I could go on for pages about what it did for those involved, why it works, and its effects (the most obvious of which is the extremely rapid rate of cultural evolution noted by sociologists in recent years). It's probably one of the reason moot still operates 4chan despite having lost a lot of money on it; I think he understands its significance, at least to some extent.

Anyway, this whole "Anonymous" vigilante thing clouds something that's much bigger and that people really need to see and understand. And that's what makes me sad.

Also, on another note, Planescape: Torment is pretty fantastic.

Jeeze, it must've been a really bad injury if they asked you to remove it...

What did you post in the DCC that you wound up deleting?

Hey, must say you have a cute sig..

You mean that spambot with the inappropriate sig?

We've been attacked by a few of them lately.

Lol penis size.

Do you see what I see with Mr. X? He keeps asking the question over and over and over and over and over again and I responded every time. If I answer with the legit reasoning he expects me to be God or something and put more reasoning when there isn't anymore. Then if I say drop the laws he will preach to me and want more reasoning behind it. What should I do about it?

What's the meaning behind your version?