By monday afternoon apo will probably be back and will have 10 new threads started.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fireball
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By monday afternoon apo will probably be back and will have 10 new threads started.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fireball
The e-friends thing is by far his biggest (and possibly only) accomplishment. You pretty must listed all his "basketball takes," so you can see how much he actually understands the sport. Honestly him and his buddies are probably this forum's most interesting case studies, psychologically speaking. Like almost every one of their behaviors I've learned about in a lecture here or a YouTube video there. The most fascinating thing for me is that even though they type like small children, they're very clearly ~16-26. You can watch them be timid and afraid when they're faced with a new opinion by someone, and then the next time completely overcompensate with aggression and "faggot" and fruity emoticons. Like the kid in elementary school who got picked on too much and lashed out, except they're all that kid. And through the magic of the Internet, they found each other, and now they bully other people, including sports millionaires. Fascinating really, like a nature documentary from BBC. There's one or two people genuinely trolling, and the rest just play pretend. It's very obvious who is doing what.Quote:
Originally Posted by K...
When you really paid attention to Apo, it was obvious how much he really cared about others' opinions, and how much he sought after approval. Him "trolling" was a way for him to fit in. It was interesting watching him go on about player fans, while hating on literally every player on the Spurs not named Kawhi. Interesting because he would textually masturbate players like Curry and Westbrook; the biggest player fan of them all, and because of how insecure he was that people might think he wasn't 100% Kawhi all the time. So threads and more threads to convince others and mostly himself that he always thought Kawhi would be super amazing hero. Look up the way Filipinos idolize celebrities and being "the man". It is very much a cultural thing.
Meanwhile you have da bom, who has the intellectual and emotional maturity of a toddler, but gives glimpses here and there that he is ~15-19ish. You can see the father/family estrangement in the way he talks. You can see kids at school bullying him, and how tough it was for him to make friends by the way he bullies others and quickly defends the internet friends he has. He comes across as an American youth by his overcompensating aggression, but it's obvious how much a facade it is by the way his arguments end up boiling down to "faggot", emoticon, and constant spamming.
I could go on all day, Spurstalk is an "A+++ great seller would buy from again" level spectator sport when it comes to some of the personalities.
Quality take. I posted something similar comparing their trolling to the autistic mass shooters like Dylan rf. Luckily this isn't a gun forum.