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Word for the day: Schadenfreude.
17 years ago
In common English usage it is taken to mean "Taking pleasure in the misfortune of others".
I do not cultivate enemies. I try not to hate anyone, because it gets in the way of being easy-going and happy, a lifestyle I much prize. There are people who dislike me strongly, but I try to forgive or ignore them. I'm agnostic/deist verging on atheism, so it's not a "Christian" thing. It's just too much trouble to be angry at people. It helps that I know them mostly online. It's a lot harder to ignore someone who hates you face to face.
However, there is one person who I dislike pretty strongly. He attacked me relentlessly when I first encountered him online, to the point that he was banned from, well, pretty much every place we went together. It seems he is really, really fond of dragons, and it causes him no end of misery when I draw one being eaten.
I don't dislike dragons. I rather like drawing them. The reason I tend to draw them as prey is mostly because they are so constructed that their tail can hang out when even their hind paws have been swallowed.
Now, our mystery person never failed to rant about how "unrealistic" it was for a dragon to be eaten by whatever was eating them. Flame wars ensued as I defended my drawings, and it soon developed that whenever anyone disagreed with him, he went straight to the personal attacks.
Now, this person has the habit of using the same unique online name wherever he goes. I tend to do that myself, but "Strega" is a very common word and Googling it won't get you much. There is an Italian winery and racing team named Strega, etc., etc.
Not so with my one "enemy". His name is so unique that a simple Google will turn up his activities in forums everywhere. Much to my amusement -- we get back to the Word of the Day, Schadenfreude -- he has been banned from most of the forums he posts at, not just the ones I go to.
I had thought he had changed his handle, as I had seen no new posts by him with my occasional Googling. Tonight I remembered him again for some reason and did the Google, and there he was over on IMDB ranting about how unrealistic the movie Beowulf is. This ranting stemmed, naturally, from the fact that a dragon gets killed in the movie.
To my great pleasure he has been comprehensively "pwned" in the resulting arguments. I am a small person to take pleasure in the misfortune of another, but this person's combination of gigantic ego and complete disrespect for others' opinions never fails to annoy me.
I am still reading the Beowulf thread on IMDB and Our Hero has sunk to his usual level of nonstop personal insults. It's sad really. 83
I do not cultivate enemies. I try not to hate anyone, because it gets in the way of being easy-going and happy, a lifestyle I much prize. There are people who dislike me strongly, but I try to forgive or ignore them. I'm agnostic/deist verging on atheism, so it's not a "Christian" thing. It's just too much trouble to be angry at people. It helps that I know them mostly online. It's a lot harder to ignore someone who hates you face to face.
However, there is one person who I dislike pretty strongly. He attacked me relentlessly when I first encountered him online, to the point that he was banned from, well, pretty much every place we went together. It seems he is really, really fond of dragons, and it causes him no end of misery when I draw one being eaten.
I don't dislike dragons. I rather like drawing them. The reason I tend to draw them as prey is mostly because they are so constructed that their tail can hang out when even their hind paws have been swallowed.
Now, our mystery person never failed to rant about how "unrealistic" it was for a dragon to be eaten by whatever was eating them. Flame wars ensued as I defended my drawings, and it soon developed that whenever anyone disagreed with him, he went straight to the personal attacks.
Now, this person has the habit of using the same unique online name wherever he goes. I tend to do that myself, but "Strega" is a very common word and Googling it won't get you much. There is an Italian winery and racing team named Strega, etc., etc.
Not so with my one "enemy". His name is so unique that a simple Google will turn up his activities in forums everywhere. Much to my amusement -- we get back to the Word of the Day, Schadenfreude -- he has been banned from most of the forums he posts at, not just the ones I go to.
I had thought he had changed his handle, as I had seen no new posts by him with my occasional Googling. Tonight I remembered him again for some reason and did the Google, and there he was over on IMDB ranting about how unrealistic the movie Beowulf is. This ranting stemmed, naturally, from the fact that a dragon gets killed in the movie.
To my great pleasure he has been comprehensively "pwned" in the resulting arguments. I am a small person to take pleasure in the misfortune of another, but this person's combination of gigantic ego and complete disrespect for others' opinions never fails to annoy me.
I am still reading the Beowulf thread on IMDB and Our Hero has sunk to his usual level of nonstop personal insults. It's sad really. 83
First, the heart. WTF? Who has their heart in their neck, and not only that, a little tiny heart for a big huge dragon?
But most importantly, they TOTALLY missed the entire theme of Beowulf's struggle against the dragon. Actually, I kinda felt that about the entire movie. It seemed like they would rather have done King Arthur (with Grendel's mother being Morgan le Fay and the dragon being Mordred), and as a result the Norse culture of Beowulf's epic got almost entirely destroyed.
That, and I couldn't help but notice from the start that everything was CG, and felt rather plasticy. It was good CG, but there was nothing in there that couldn't have been done with live action so it felt gratuitous to me =P
::snickers:: I know you know me, Strega, and that I tend to be a bit shy about dragon issues myself, but in this case it's nothing to do with that. Beowulf is one of my favoirate epics ever, and I adore ancient Norse culture, so the movie and the way it gleefully butchers it probably wasn't aimed at me ;)
> 'He has very specific ideas of what dragons are "really" like and is very, very upset that they aren't depicted "realistically" in this film. He considers anyone who disagrees with him on anything to be an "adolescent video-game playing moron;" he also claims to be a published author, though he seems rather shy about backing up those claims with any hard evidence. ' -- fwbrown
Hee, hee, hee.
It's heart is about the size of a human heart, even though the dragon is many, many times bigger than a man. Not only do you have to wonder how it can possibly move that much blood around... it's kept in a transparent pouch slightly up the neck.
So yes. Its heart is visible to onlookers, is in the neck, and about the size of a single fist. It just boggles me how... odd that is.
::grrrs grrrs at people, all cute-dragon like::
But yeah ;) I really got the impression they wanted to make King Arthur, but wanted monsters in it. The story is very much like that of Arthur, transposed onto a different setting.
~ Allester E. Darkflame
But yeah, that does remind me of someone from pounced.org who lashed out at me just by how I decide to live my dating lifestyle.
i in truth find it hard not to take pleasure in some forms of peoples misfortunes (ie AFV)
i remember this perticualr person made quite a few commeonts on your comic of giesha? the elephant eating the dragon man. quite personaly id LOVE to see some more dragons as prey for big bad elephants =p . . . . . if only to spite this person MUHAHAHAHAHAH!!! . . . that and evrey other vore on the net seems to love it as much as i do=p
Schadenfreude: Making others happy they're not you.
I'd only like to say, "lol"
It's been said many time by many people: If you don't like it, don't look.
D.O.P.R
Now, I don't agree with him. But I think I know where his beliefs stem. See, the good guy goes out and fights the dragon, and wins, even though the dragon's terrorized the countryside, and destroyed villages and crops, yadda yadda yadda...I think this guy enjoys dragons to the point where he'd much rather see more build-up, and more emphasis on how awesome this dragon is; the fact that it's truly a monster, a nigh-unstoppable behemoth with the ability to breathe fire/lightning/acid/what have you. To quote Discworld GURPS: "You could be the hero who slays the troll, or one of the twelve heroes who fell first."
However...I think he might be missing the point. See, as with any "villain" character--and yes, in that situation, the dragon's definitely a villain--the whole point to such power is only to lead up to the villain's demise. When Darth Vader choked those guys, and blew up Alderaan, and commanded star fleets, it was leading up to that climactic fight; all of the power they show, and the incredible feats they perform all lead up to their inevitable defeat, which is what makes the heroes so incredible.
If the dragon's eating people and burning cows and ravaging poor helpless maidens...well, actually, you've got a good deal of furry art on dragons. >_> But in the /traditional/ sense, he's the bad guy. And that means that when he gets taken down by the good guy, it makes it that much more awesome.
Jk. *swishes tail and grins* I mean hey, if you can find something stretchy or magical enough, or something that happens to be larger than my 96ft, I'll let myself be in vore art as the food :3
But that didn't make me enjoy the movie less. It was a good flick and I'm going to buy it when it get released on DVD.
Here we say "skadefryd", but it's pronounced very like "schadenfreude". But no matter where you are in the world, there will always be people full of that. I fantasize about throwing them into the sun.
Good word. There's a song about it in Avenue Q. And like the song says, EVERYONE takes pleasure out of other people's misfortune. I couldn't find the original, but here's the song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFGpBdiYVOc
On a more serious note, I've had people who hate me because of what I draw. My crap has not only wound up on VCL horrors on several occasions, but also LOST ME A GIRLFRIEND. While I do no weep for having broken up with her, it actually destroyed my self confidence for about a year.
But in the end...Fuck Other People. Do what you want, if people don't like it they can sit on a railroad spike for all you should care.
I forget who said it, but this guy definitely takes it to heart.
So I am laughing too ¦D
Though really i think the funniest thing is if i took every idiot to go out of their way just to attack this guy and stacked them one by one we'd probably be colonising mars already :D.
Frankly, this guy sounds like a total moron who has no idea what the hell he's talking about. Hell, DRAGON'S AREN'T EVEN REAL in many peoples thoughts. I don't care if you think you're a dragon "Spiritually" or "Hiding as a human" [PROVE IT]. There's no bases for knowing "Just how strong" a dragon is except for MYTH, STORIES, and fucking DnD stuff. Personally, in my Stories Dragon's are all balanced. They're either very powerful Melee's with low magical skill (Arison) or Insane Magic Casters with very little melee skill (Celestial's). When they breed, you get a viciously strong warrior, yes, but they're also not AS powerful as a pure bred!
So a dragon dies in Beowulf... who gives a flying fuck? It was an Evil Dragon, I would have killed it myself, then EATEN it just to add insult to injury. There, If you're watching this Jack ass (Not you Strega) You now have a DRAGON of 20years puttin' you in your place. Bite me before I bite you. And trust me, I WILL eat you.
Strega, I love your art work, been hunting you down for awhile, glad I finally found you. =^^=
~ Allester E. Darkflame
~~ Cannibal of other Dragon's Bitch!
~ Allester E. Darkflame
Yeah, it's him.
And yeah, the admins got played. HARD.
My brother created his own species of dragon, and a world for them. That guy would flip out hard if he heard that. Especialy when he hears the part about humans killing them with rocket launchers and AA guns.
People don't seem to realize that dragons are whatever you make them, since they don't exist in real life.