People who are on my blacklist:
1. Radical religious fanatics who would love to convince you that their religion is the ONLY "true" religion and would love to burn every nonbeliever in the country. Being an atheist, (and no offense to any believers intended) I am highly annoyed at the baseless arguments they throw at my face to convince me to believe in God. By stating "it's because the Bible/Torah/Qu'ran said so" means nothing. I respect religion and the wholesome moral values that it has brought to society, but this does not mean that I particularly enjoy the people who try to shove religious preachings down my throat and does not mean that I do not have a right to be a nonbeliever.
2. People who bash something either simply because of information they've heard in the grapevine or after jumping to conclusions. For example: the Nintendo Wii. Every hater I've listened to has nothing to say other than "teh graff1x sux!!1!" and "st00p1d gey k1d gaems!!" The Wii does have a nice selection of titles for the hardcore crowd (CoD:WaW, Super Smash Bros., Fire Emblem: RD, Resident Evil 4, Manhunt 2, and so on), but the shovelware often overshadows it. Not only that, but games such as Super Mario Galaxy and the Conduit (at least from what we've seen from High Voltage's tech demos) are graphically on par with that of games for both Xbox 360 and PS3. YES, even the PS3. Techniques such as bump mapping, extra pixel shading, bloom lighting, dynamic shadow and reflection, and antialiasing (occasionally frame blur in place of this). The only disadvantage is no HDMI-out. In short, get your facts straight before making a statement (but I am no saint, I've done this too).
3. "Emos." I use quotation marks so that I specify who I'm speaking about: people who dress black, curl their hair over half of their face, and listen to "emo" music and call themselves emos because they think it's cool. Whoa. Reality check. Since when was being depressed, hating yourself, flamboyantly flaunting your depression and impressing your self-inflicted hatred upon others considered cool? A true emo is not one who dresses in complete black, cuts themself, and whines on the Internet about it (and not to say that there aren't those who do so, but I digress): an actual emo is truly depressed, has hit an enormous bump in life (which normally does NOT include angsting about your parents not letting you go out somebody, your sinking grades, or the other pointless crap that nobody but YOU cares about or can do something about), and feels that there is, without any doubt, no hope left for them. Nine times out of ten, they don't even dress or act the way a typical emo would, and keep their depression enclosed within their mind, sealed behind the enigma the mind has created amidst their sadness. There: something to think about before you use the word emo.
