I Can Do Anything Better Than You

NO YOU CAN'T! YES I CAN!! This video just made me smile haha. The acting, especially of the woman is pretty awesome. Unfortunately embedding has been disabled for that video or I would have put it on the page.

"Nice vid, but what's the point?" you very well may ask. Well, "I can do anything better than you," has stricken me as the appropriate attitude for the majority of the YouTube idiots these days. Don't read that as "YouTube idiots" but as "YouTube's idiots." I'm not calling YouTube people all idiots but rather targeting the group within YouTube which can suitably be called... idiots.

This topic stems mostly from the problem that I've been having with the Fallout 3 LP but other LPs, both mine and others', as well. There always has to be that stupid person who HAS to point out everything you did wrong and tell you just how it should be done and/or how they did the deed with so much more prowess than you. To you I say, good job. Good job. You're better than me at this game. Great gods all mighty, good job. Now take your harping ass and get the fuck out of here.

My LPs are (so far) blind. That means that I can miss stuff, that means I can get lost, that means that I will not pull off everything in the game to utmost perfection. If that is SUCH a huge deal to you then respectfully get the fuck out and don't come back. Now, there may be some people who will tell me these people were merely just trying to help (probably because what I complain of hits a bit close to what they themselves do, which is give advice on how to best play the game at every opportunity). Let me point out however that there is a huge difference between the person who tells me how much I suck at a game and the person who tells me a bit more about how the game works. Sometimes I get pissed at both but the latter is acceptable.

The line between the two sometimes gets a little hazy though which is probably why the formerly mentioned latter would defend themselves against my railings here. But I'm getting really really tired of people pointing out things that I do "wrong." And sometimes, looking in retrospect, I will agree with them that I did something or other "wrong." My problem is that they feel such a need to point it out... even when I put text on the screen clearly aimed at telling them that I am aware of the error.

Such as in my recent Fallout 3 video where I completely miss the entrance to Rivet City (being that you have to speak into an intercom) and since these videos go up far after being recorded of course I know already where the entrance is. However, in the video I get a little off track and start doing other things which leads to me finding Rivet City's entrance in the next video. So being aware that people may be compelled to throw tomatoes with the sticky-note "you speak to the intercom, you idiot" attached to it, I added a text box on the screen (not annotation so annotations being turned off couldn't even be an issue) clearly stating that I know now where the intercom is and that the rest of the video is wandering around and that NEXT video I will have discovered it. But noooo, I STILL get stupid comments and messages telling me about how to get in. Really? You MISSED it? The text took up 3/4 of the screen and was displayed VERY shortly after me being all confused about how to get in. Really? Either 1) you're really stupid or 2) you felt so compelled to prove your knowledge of the game that the MOMENT that you saw me falter you had to pause the video and post a comment.

And THAT is where today's blog title comes from. I feel like people tell me a lot of the tips because they feel this need to show how much they know about the game. How much better they are at it. Now before I get carried away in rage, let me add that this does not include people who sincerely were trying to help by offering tips with something I was REALLY struggling with or something that I asked a question about. Obviously I wanted or needed help there and whatever, I'm fine with that. But when it's CLEAR that I've figured it out, when it's CLEAR that I'm getting by just fucking FINE thank you by myself... in THAT case, I really really really fucking hate people who point out shit to me.

Sometimes well-intentioned people annoy me as well. That just can't be helped. Sometimes they think I need help with something and I disagree. Sometimes they think I haven't figured it out yet and I already have. Shit like that will happen. Fine. I'll still be annoyed but I won't hate the person for it. But those god damned know-it-alls who just feel the need to let everyone know how great they are at a game. Good job. You'll get far in life.